3 Ingredient Banana Chocolate Muffins
This is one of those super easy recipes. No one else needs to know how little time and effort it takes. It's delicious, quick and you probably have all three ingredients at home already.
It is the PERFECT recipe to use up those old bananas! The mashed bananas just go so well with the chocolate and make this a nice flavorful muffin.
Another similar type recipe is these three ingredient apple spice muffins. Move over pumpkin spice, apple spice is where it's at! Think apple pie smell and flavor.
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The best three ingredient muffin recipe!
You'll be pleasantly surprised at how good this tastes! Especially for a cake mix muffin.
This is also a frugal recipe since you just only need three ingredients. You don't need to purchase a bunch of ingredients just to make one recipe.
Bananas and chocolate just go together!
Ingredients

Chocolate cake mix. I like Betty Crocker mixes. And I stock up when they are on sale.
3-4 bananas, mashed.
2 eggs - large.
Substitutions
You can't go wrong with this recipe! If you don't have enough bananas, add an extra egg. If you don't have enough eggs, add an extra banana. With less eggs, the muffins will be a little more dense but still delicious!
Thought you had chocolate cake mix at home and you don't? That's OK! Use what you have and I'm sure you'll love it.
Let me know if you create a delicious muffin!
Instructions
Step 1
Mash bananas. Bananas that are a little overripe are best! I often make these muffins when my bananas didn't get eaten as fast as I anticipated.
Step 2
Add cake mix. Just the cake mix. Do NOT add the other ingredients that are listed on the box. I get asked this often.
Step 3
Add eggs. I just gently drop them on the mix and use a fork to beat them before incorporating them into the rest of the mix ingredients. Why dirty another dish!
Step 4
Mix then place batter in a 12 well muffin tin. I use muffin/cupcake liners to keep my muffin tins clean. Lets avoid doing any extra dishes if we can.
A huge tip that makes cleaning up a lot easier. I've started using scoops for a lot of my prep. work. For this recipe, I scoop the muffin dough. It makes sure each muffin well gets the same amount of dough and it doesn't dribble onto the pan (or the counter). I also use them when I make my favorite meatballs and cookies! The kinds of scoops I use look like this (click on the picture of the scoops to see more info):
Step 5
Bake at 350 Fahrenheit for 16-18 minutes. It depends on how much batter is in each muffin well. And that depends on how much banana you use.
Equipment Tip
Oh, these are good! The taste of bananas is definitely there, not totally overwhelmed by the chocolate. In my opinion, a perfect balance of banana and chocolate.
Honestly, this is a delicious banana chocolate muffin recipe!
FAQ
A reader's comment shared she used yellow cake mix and some cocoa!
Yes, swirling a little peanut butter in the batter would be delicious! But then it's a 4 ingredient recipe.

Banana Chocolate muffins
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate cake mix
- 3-4 medium bananas mashed.
- 2 large Eggs
Instructions
- Mash bananas
- Add cake mix
- Add eggs. I just gently drop them into the mix and use a fork to beat them before incorporating into the rest of the mix ingredients. Why dirty another dish!
- Bake at 350 Fahrenheit for 16-18 minutes. Check with a toothpick to see if done.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Do you have any other super easy recipes?
Yes! Here are a few suggestions for you.
1. Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies.
2. 2 Ingredient pumpkin muffins
3. Cake mix blueberry muffins - a delicious flavorful scratch recipe.

Susan Moncrieff
Yes you can. I would add a little water (try 1/4 cup) so the batter isn’t too dry.
Claudia
I only had a yellow cake mix so I added Dutch cocoa to the mix and it came out relish.
Thanks for the recipe.
Elizabeth
Wow!! So easy and so delicious! I had three bananas to use up and came across this wonderful recipe. The only thing I did different was I added one tablespoon of oil to the batter. After putting in muffin liners I added some chocolate chips and walnuts to the top. These were so moist and good. I will definitely be making these again!!
Shannon Hill
Made them!!! So yummy!!! My toddler loves them! Will definitely be making them again in the near future! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Jenn
Made these in a greased mini muffin tin! My kids are nuts for mini muffins. Made about 4 dozen.
momcrieff
There is sugar in the boxed cake mix. If your daughter is fructose intolerant, this may not be a good choice for her : (.
Alexis
I wish I could post a picture! These came out perfectly, not too banana-y or chocolatey. Juat for the heck of it I used my silicone doughnut tray at 13 minutes. First Pinterest success (: thank you!
momcrieff
I'm so glad these worked for you! My family loves them!