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Home » Recipe » All Manner of Sweet Things » Baking » Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Published on July 27, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia 44 Comments
Last Updated on January 28, 2019

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Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins, a great way to use up over ripe bananas!

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins, a great way to use up over ripe bananas!

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

The wandering traveller has returned home, for the foreseeable future – or at least until the wanderlust strikes again! I’m home now from a week’s camping in Norway (It was heaven! A blog post will follow soon!) which followed our family trip to Brussels that was close on the heels of my epic two week bikepacking trip through the highlands of Scotland (again, blog posts will follow once I get the time to sift through all the photos and write about them!). So many different places in such a short space of time. So much seen!

It’s been a summer of adventure, that’s for sure!

I’m home now, back in the comforts of my own kitchen and faced with a fruit bowl filled with incredibly over ripe bananas.

Storevatnet lake on Sandviksfjellet mountain, Bergen

But first, a little bit about Bergen.

It rained there, a lot. I was rained on 5 days out of the 7 I spent there – apparently it’s been the worse summer for rain in Bergen since 1929. So, when the sun shone brightly one morning, and stayed in the sky for the full day, I headed to the mountains just outside the city for a spot of hiking.

It was sweltering with heat and I was sorely tempted to take a dip in Storevatnet lake on Sandviksfjellet mountain, pictured above. This place was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to.

The hill you see to the left, above, was covered in wild blueberries. I haven’t seen wild blueberries since my Canadian childhood! Aah, so many summers of my youth spent picking blueberries – one for the bowl, ten for me. It was slow going in the summer sun.


I still had blueberries on the brain when my husband and children collected me from the airport (during the summer months there’s a direct flight from Shetland to Bergen), so I popped a big packet of them into our supermarket trolley en route home. Shop bought are never as good as wild, but they’d do.

When faced with a mountain of over ripe bananas and these blueberries I quite fancied making blueberry banana muffins, and I found a lovely sounding recipe for banana crumb muffins in a recipe notebook my grandmother sent me, so I tweaked it a bit, UK-ifying the measures and adding a generous portion of juicy blueberries.

A wholly successful endeavour.

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

As an aside – my bike is broken and I’m currently off road. Thanks to the ScotRail strike in June which forced my travelling companion and I to alter our plans (and for us to miss the flying lessons I had booked in Perth! *shakes angry fist at ScotRail*) we were forced to either a) cycle from Fort William to Aberdeen to catch the ferry home (after cycling 400 miles and climbing Ben Nevis we weren’t keen on this option) or b) find an alternate way to get to Aberdeen. None of the car hire places in Fort William offer one way car hires, so the bus it was.

To cut a long story short (*shakes angry fist at CitiLink and their cycle-unfriendly policies)(*HUGE thanks to Stagecoach who know how to treat their customers*) we had to disassemble our bikes and wrap them in layers of black bin bags and duct tape before we were allowed to put them in the underbus storage on the CitiLink bus. The bashing about underneath has caused some damage to the gear derailer and it doesn’t work any more. Tweaking has made it worse and now the bike is unrideable. It’s got a date with the Shetland Community Bike Project today, so I should hopefully be back on the road soon!

Pictured above, our youngest son (age 7), taking a muffin break while trying his best to fix the derailer for me, bless his cotton socks.

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

The generous sized muffin (we all like a big breakfast muffin, right?) are incredibly soft and moist with little bursts of blueberry throughout. The cinnamon scented streusel topping adds a lovely crunch texture and appetite stimulating aroma to the muffin.

All in all, they’re a pretty fantastic muffin if I do say so myself, and they didn’t last long in our house!

How do you use up over ripe bananas? Let me know in the comments!

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

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  • Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins
      • for the muffin batter
      • for the streusel topping
    • Affiliate Links
    • Instructions 

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

A delicious way to use up those over ripe bananas; perfect for breakfast with a coffee!
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 12 muffins
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

for the muffin batter

  • 250 grams plain flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 75 grams butter melted and cooled
  • 3 medium bananas mashed
  • 170 grams caster sugar
  • 1 large egg beaten
  • 175 grams blueberries

for the streusel topping

  • 75 grams light musocvado sugar
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp butter

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Instructions 

  • Preheat your oven to 375 F/190 C/ 170 C fan and place large paper cases in a 12 hole muffin tin.
  • Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
  • Mash the banana in a separate bowl and add the cooled melted butter and egg and mix well.
  • In a third bowl, toss the fresh blueberries with two spoonfuls of the flour mixture to coat.
  • Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Fold in the blueberries with any flour that might be remaining in the bottom of the blueberry bowl.
  • Spoon into the prepared muffin cases.
  • To prepare the streusel topping, combine the sugar, flour and cinnamon together and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs.
  • Generously sprinkle the streusel topping over each muffin and bake, in the centre of the oven, for 20 - 25 minutes. A skewer inserted into the centre will come out clean.
  • Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, or eat warm for breakfast with coffee!
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Chocolate Banana Cardamom Muffins from The Hedgecombers
Pineapple, Banana and Chocolate Flapjacks by Tinned Tomatoes (vegan)
Healthy Banana Bread by Little Sunny Kitchen
Black Banana and Chocolate Chip Bannocks by Foodie Quine
Banana Weetabix Blueberry Muffins by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
Roasted Banana & Cream Ice Lollies by Kavey Eats
Spiced Banana and Orange Milkshake by Coffee & Vanilla
Vegan Banana Bread by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
Banana Pudding by Fab Food 4 All
Streusel Topped Banana Bread by Family Friends, Food

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Filed Under: All Manner of Sweet Things, Baking, Breakfast, Recipe Tagged With: Banana, blueberry, breakfast, muffin, no waste food challenge

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Comments

  1. Heather Haigh says

    August 10, 2016 at 8:54 am

    They look really delicous, I love blueberries and it’s always nice to see new recipes with them.

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  2. Andrew Petrie says

    August 8, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Tasty, healthy, and ease, this one ticks all the boxes.

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  3. Lisa (BadMammy.com) says

    August 6, 2016 at 9:26 am

    These look absolutely incredible. Really sorry to hear about your bike, sounds so frustrating!

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  4. Heather Haigh says

    August 6, 2016 at 12:44 am

    These look and sound totally delicous, wha a favumous flavour combination.

    Reply
  5. Annie B says

    August 3, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Blueberries are my fave! They always go in my overnight oats but I need to make these!

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  6. Sue Hall says

    August 2, 2016 at 11:56 am

    Those muffins look delicious.

    With over ripe bananas I do one of three things, the ubiquitous Banana Bread, or chop banana into chunks, freeze and then whizz up and you have delicious banana ice cream or the simplest ever Banana Oat cookies. Just half a cup of oats mixed with each mashed ripe banana and then dolloped onto a baking tray and cooked in a medium oven for 15 minutes.

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  7. nicol says

    August 1, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    oh my, the look so delicious! two of my favourite things in one.

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  8. Sally - Mycustardpie says

    August 1, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    Hope your bike is back on the road soon. These muffins look fabulous. Particularly like the picture with your sons hand in it.

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    • Elizabeth says

      August 2, 2016 at 7:30 am

      I’m back on the road again! The bike project went above and beyond the call of duty replacing the derailer, sorting out the pannier rack which was interfering with the brakes, sorted the stiff brake discs and put my rear tyre on the correct way (I’d put it on backwards!). 🙂

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  9. Rachel says

    July 31, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Blueberries are the one fruit I really dislike, but cooked this way and used this way, I think I might like them more x

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  10. MELANIE EDJOURIAN says

    July 30, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    OMG those muffins look amazing, i bet my kids and hubby would love me to try making these!!!!!

    Reply
  11. tanya brannan says

    July 30, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    These just look delicious!! That topping is so different and unusual. I look forward to testing these out x

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  12. The London Mum says

    July 29, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    Oh my goodness, how delicious! gonna have to try and make these.

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  13. Liz Mays says

    July 29, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    What an awesome way to use those bananas and blueberries. I have a couple of containers of frozen blueberries and some frozen overripe bananas I need to use.

    Reply
  14. Hannah says

    July 29, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    These look delicious – I will have to try and recreate them!

    Reply
  15. Kelly says

    July 29, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    Yum yum…these sound like the muffins of my childhood Nova Scotia summers.

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    • Elizabeth says

      July 29, 2016 at 5:14 pm

      I grew up in Nova Scotia! The blueberries of Norway reminded me of my Cape Breton summers 🙂

      Reply
  16. Jess says

    July 29, 2016 at 11:48 am

    These sound amazing, overripe bananas are perfect for baking! They usually just end up in banana bread in our house…

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  17. Sarahjane says

    July 29, 2016 at 11:38 am

    These look fantastic!! Getting some serious food envy here! I love blueberries! Your trip looked beautiful too

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  18. Ana De- Jesus says

    July 29, 2016 at 10:42 am

    Blueberry muffins are my absolute fave how did you know lol! I love the sound of adding banana to the mix too!

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  19. Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says

    July 29, 2016 at 8:26 am

    Beautiful photos, and I could so go one of these muffins right now. I am blueberry obsessed at the moment.

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  20. Jemma @ Celery and Cupcakes says

    July 29, 2016 at 8:16 am

    These do look yummy! The streusel topping has me sold.

    Reply
  21. tp keane says

    July 29, 2016 at 2:44 am

    oh my god, these are just to die for. I better not show the kids or they’ll eat them all on me.

    Reply
  22. Emily Leary says

    July 28, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    Look at that topping and that crumb! *swoon*

    Reply
  23. Rhian Westbury says

    July 28, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    Oh can’t wait to hear about Norway. Interesting mix for the muffins x

    Reply
  24. Charli Bruce says

    July 28, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    These sound absolutely gorgeous! We normally just make banana bread with our overly ripe bananas! xx

    Reply
  25. BloggerMummyLauren says

    July 28, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Oh these look delicious, it’s making me drool little!
    Looks like you visited such a beautiful area of the world, that lake does look rather inviting.
    Sorry to hear about your bike, sounds like really bad service from CitiLink, hope you get sorted soon!

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  26. Sarah says

    July 28, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    These muffins look PERFECT. I swear blueberries are the best ingredient in a muffin!
    Yummy recipe, thank you for sharing xx

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  27. Hannah Clementson says

    July 28, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    I’m always really funny with fruit. I don’t enjoy the texture when it’s not cooked. However blueberries in muffins is ALWAYS delicious. These look lovely!

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  28. Tara says

    July 28, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    Another fab recipe, thanks! Going to share with my bf.

    Reply
  29. Life as Mum says

    July 28, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    Such beautiful photos and those muffins look so delicious

    Reply
  30. Harriet from Toby & Roo says

    July 28, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    Oh my oh my! I am drooling on my laptop 🙂

    Reply
  31. StressedMum says

    July 28, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    These sound amazing, I am in a baking mood at the moment, but not been inspired at what to make (until now), unfortunately apart from a few apples and strawberries my fruit bowl is empty. I will be trying these though x

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  32. Stella says

    July 28, 2016 at 9:06 am

    OMG! I love muffins so much. These look very delicious. Thanks for sharing with us.

    Reply
  33. LaaLaa says

    July 28, 2016 at 8:46 am

    Ah no, the bike smh! Unbelieveable but how sweet of your son to try and help fix it! The muffins look delicious! I’m not a fan of blueberries but I do love the smell of muffins.

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  34. Helen | Wonderfully Average says

    July 27, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Oh these sound amazing! I’ve pinned it for later. Sorry to hear about your bike troubles. My son (2 years old) loves it when I freeze overripe bananas on lolly sticks- he thinks they’re ice lollies!

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  35. Jo says

    July 27, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    I adore the crumbly crispy looking tops, they add a really rustic feel to them. Makes them look a little healthier, meaning i can have 2??!

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  36. Toni @ Gym Bunny Mummy says

    July 27, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    These look absolutely incredible, gorgeous photos

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  37. Colette says

    July 27, 2016 at 4:39 pm

    The muffins sound amazing.
    What a shame your bike has suffered so much at the hands of the bus!

    Reply
  38. Laura @ dearbearandbeany says

    July 27, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    These look delicious, so crunchy on top. Yes, the bigger the better for me when it comes to muffins X

    Reply
  39. Lyndsey O'Halloran says

    July 27, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    I love banana muffins, I love blueberry muffins… how could I not love these too?!

    Reply
  40. Camilla says

    July 27, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    Love these muffins, have never put a Streusak topping on anything before and realky shoyl,! Thanks for linking to my pudding☺

    Reply
  41. Jordanne says

    July 27, 2016 at 11:46 am

    As always I want to eat up your cooking!! The pictures make me hungry and I just feel like I need to get my baking equipment out pronto!

    Jordanne || Thelifeofaglasgowgirl.co.uk

    Reply
  42. Dean of Little Steps says

    July 27, 2016 at 11:33 am

    That looks absolutely delicious! Sorry you had a bad experience with CitiLink but I’m glad you didn’t allow this to ruin your adventure 🙂

    Reply

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