 My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and today I'm sharing a quick and easy recipe for caramel pecan banana muffins. So let me show you what you're going to need and I'll make sure to leave exact measurements in the description box. For the muffin portion you are going to need flour, sugar, pecans, caramel baking bits or you can use just the regular caramels and just cut them up. You're going to need a ripe banana. Now my husband and I are not huge banana people so I prefer a milder banana bread but if you like banana flavor you're gonna want to use at least three. You're going to need some baking powder and salt, a couple of eggs, butter and butter milk. For the crumble portion or streusel portion you're going to need some brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, melted butter and flour. So let's get started. Okay so the first thing we're going to do is start off by hand mixing our butter and sugar and by the way my butter is at room temperature and it's really soft. Now I'm going to add in my eggs and these are also at room temperature and my buttermilk which again is at room temperature. You want to make sure when you're baking that your eggs, milk, butter, anything like that you want to make sure it's at room temperature it just cooks better and I'm going to add a little bit of vanilla and I'm just going to use my hand mixer now. Now I'm going to add in my banana and I did mash it up first. I'm going to give that another mix. Now I'm just going to add in my flour and my salt and baking soda. I believe when I was going over the ingredients I may have said baking powder but this is baking soda. I'm just going to give this another stir. Okay so I mixed my batter until it was just moistened. You don't want to over mix that batter. Kind of like the same with pancake mix. It's like you don't over mix it same thing with the muffin mix. So I'm just going to gently fold in the caramel bits and those pecans. Now we're going to set this aside while we work on that streusel topping. Okay so I've got my bowl of flour now I'm just adding in that brown sugar. I'm just going to break it up a little bit and I'm going to add in a generous amount of cinnamon and my butter and I'm just going to stir it all up. Okay so I've got my streusel mixture all combined and I know this is kind of a weird angle but I wanted to show you all what I did to make tulip like muffin holders. So I used parchment paper and then I sized it for the muffin tin and then I just put a cup right on top just like that and just kind of smashed it down to get it to hold in place. So now I'm just going to fill the muffin cups. I'll just do one on camera for you all. Put the muffin mixture right down in there and make sure that you leave enough space for that streusel topping. So I've got my muffin mixture in there and then now I'm just going to add on my streusel topping just like that and I will go ahead and do the rest of those. Alright I've got my muffin tins all filled. In case you're not able to tell I am using a jumbo muffin tin so this recipe makes six jumbo muffins or 12 standard sized muffins. I've also cut down some of that parchment paper a little bit so it doesn't burn in the oven but I've got my oven preheated to 350 degrees and I am going to bake these for about 40 minutes or until they're done. Alright so I just took the muffins out of the oven. I let them bake for exactly 40 minutes. I'm going to let these cool completely and then I am going to cut one open so you all can see the inside. Okay so the muffins cooled completely and I took one out, cut it open so you all could see what it looks like on the inside. The reason you don't see the other side is because Howard and I ate it. We have no self-control. It was so good. You can taste those pecans and you see that melted caramel. I will say I probably could have baked it five minutes less. I baked it for 40 minutes. Probably could have done 35 minutes. It's a little dry but it's still moist. It's very good. I hope you all enjoyed this quick and easy recipe. I have an entire playlist of easy breakfast recipes. If you enjoyed this video please give us a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our channel we'd love to have you. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.