Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F with oven rack placed in the middle of the oven. Grease a 12-cup standard muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.

Step 2

Whisk together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add butter and mix with your fingertips, until evenly distributed and it looks like wet sand. Set aside.

Step 3

In another medium bowl, whisk together egg, mashed banana and buttermilk until smooth. Add into the flour mixture along with half of the chopped pecans and stir with a spatula until just mixed (do not over mix).

Step 4

Evenly divide batter into the muffin pan (all 12 cups) and sprinkle remaining pecans on top.

Step 5

Place pan in oven and bake for 17-18 minutes, until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes clean. Do not over bake.

Step 6

Place pan on a wire rack.

Step 7

Serve pancake cups hot/warm with maple syrup and/or butter.