4 Ingredient Banana Bread Muffins

4 ingredient banana bread muffins with cake mix are easy to bake with ripe fruit in less than 20 minutes. Our banana bread cake mix hack that is a healthy breakfast or snack you can enjoy with kids when you need a fast grab and go snack.

Yellow Cake Mix Banana Muffins

These are truly the best banana muffins for kids because they can help you prepare them! It’s great when you can incorporate your children into the baking process.

I don’t know about you but I just can’t throw away bananas when they look like this. This is just one of our favorite overripe banana recipe ideas here on The Typical Mom blog. They just lend so much flavor to any dish. Let us know what you think of the best muffin recipe using brown bananas!

4 Ingredients to Make Banana Muffins

1. Cake mix of your choice
   1. 15.25 size box
   2. we have used a carrot cake one
   3. spice cake mix is killer too
2. Vegetable oil
3. Eggs
4. 5 mashed bananas
   1. As brown as possible is best

What kind of cake mix should you use to make banana muffins?

As you see in my loaf recipe, I used a spice cake mix with that. It was fabulous but I do like to change things up. This time I chose this carrot cake mix and my husband said it was his favorite. Some say their favorite choice to use for this easy muffin recipes is moist yellow cake mix. Mess around with it when it’s time and see what you prefer. 😉

Paper muffin cups and muffin pan – mini muffin muffin tin would work too, just adjust to less time. Optional add ins: 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup chocolate chips and/or chopped nuts, walnuts are probably best. Small and large bowl for mixing are required too.

I love making these for breakfast because I can change up the flavor easily, and add chocolate chips too if I want. Whether you’re making individual muffins or 4 ingredient banana bread, it’s the best. If you aren’t ready to bake that day and yours are looking like this, put them in a bowl (because they may start to leak) and into the fridge. This will buy you a few more days until you’re ready.

How Long to Bake Moist Banana Muffins

If you choose to make make “regular” size like below you are looking at about 17-18 minutes, for mini banana muffins it is quicker and closer to 11 or so. Jumbo is a fun one but takes 22 or so. Air fryer muffins are about 12 min. Timing will vary slightly depending on the height of your shelf and oven temp. You want to take out immediately once they spring back when touched in the center!

How to Make Cake Mix Banana Bread Muffins

1. First, mash your ripe bananas in a bowl but leave it kinda’ chunky (my preference).
   • The darker they are the more banana flavor and sweeter your banana muffin recipe will be.
2. In another bowl add your dry ingredient which is the cake mix, with your wet ingredients which are oil and eggs.
3. Then incorporate your mashed bananas just enough where the powder is gone, do not over mix.
4. Preheat your oven to 350 and begin filling your muffin cups 3/4 of the way full. Yes you could wipe each up with some melted butter or use non stick spray but muffin cups are the way to go.
5. Bake for 18 minutes or until they immediately spring back when touched
6. Immediately take out of the muffin pan and transfer on to a cooling rack to keep moist.

Tips

Note: these won’t rise as much as if you were baking cupcakes because the bananas are rather heavy. You can see what they look like below. Believe me your family will love them!! In just 30 minutes flat, start to finish, you too can have some of the most amazing cake mix muffins ever.

NO need for flour, baking soda, and all of the other ingredients you need to make traditional muffins. This one is just throw it together simple on a busy morning. Serve warm or at room temperature as is or with a little butter on the side and enjoy!

Are banana muffins bad for you?

I mean everything should be eaten in moderation. There is fat and sugar in them, more or less depending on which recipe you’re using. Just because there’s fruit in it doesn’t mean they’re healthy.

Can banana muffins be frozen?

Many times I will make a double batch of these and save the rest for another morning. Just remember to cool muffins completely before wrapping and freezing them. To freeze them, wrap in foil or a freezer wrap, or freezer bags which is my preference. Can I freeze muffins in Tupperware? I wouldn’t because they’re not airtight and will get freezer burn easier. Label all packages with the name of the recipe and the date. These can be stored frozen for up to 3 months so there’s no hurry.

Other Ripe Banana Recipes You’ll Love

Looking for other banana recipes? Try our easy banana bread pudding that’s incredible. Did you know you can make Instant Pot banana bread too?? You can and it comes out so moist and wonderful. Essentially you’re steaming it so it is a bit dense, but like a cake almost.

• This is one of our favorite overripe banana recipes, but we have many others as well to mix things up.
• Then try our oatmeal banana cookies with chocolate for a snack.
• Banana zucchini muffins
• Our cake mix banana pudding cake is amazingly moist and wonderful, and may sound weird but banana bread with mayonnaise is killer.
• Last but not least, our pumpkin banana bread is very popular.

If you want to try a different fruit in something sweet, our huckleberry muffins are incredible.

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