Banana & Green Tea Milk Chocolate Chunk Muffins
I have a thing for swirling and marbling batters together. Well, actually, I have a thing with combining different flavors together and marbling the batters allows for each flavor to compliment each other, as opposed to throwing them all in one batter, where the flavors become muted and muddled. Extra bonus is you have a great looking baked good that is all pretty and swirly. These muffins are a great example of that, where the subtle green swirls look as good as they taste surrounded by the light brown muffin crumb. The sweet milk chocolate chunks brings the entire muffin together, giving everyone a good excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Banana | 1 medium (118g) | 105 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Almond | 1 almond (1.2g) | 7 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Tea | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 210 g (1 1/2 cups) white all purpose flour
- 190 g (1 1/4 cups) white whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt (or kosher salt)
- 115 g (1/2 cup or 1 stick) unsalted butter
- 170 g (3/4 cup) dark brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 medium ripe bananas
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk (well shaken)
- 1 teaspoon matcha tea powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 115 g (4 oz or 3/4 cup) chopped milk chocolate
- 55 g (1/4 cup) turbinado sugar, sometimes called Sugar in the Raw (optional)