Every month at my office, we celebrate birthdays/anniversary’s. I almost always bake something, and even though I’ve made banana chocolate chip muffins I wanted to make a different version.
So I googled “banana muffins” and this recipe was the first one to pop up and it sounded great, so I went with it! It’s from a site called Simply Recipes.
INGREDIENTS
3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tbsp espresso or strong coffee (optional) * I didn’t use that
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 1/2 cup of flour
1 cup chopped walnuts (toasted or raw) * No nuts for me!
Directions:
No need for a mixer with this recipe.
1 Preheat the oven to 350Β°F. With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.
2 Mix in the sugar, egg, espresso (if using) and vanilla.
3 Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in.
4 Add the flour, mix until it is just incorporated. Fold in the chopped walnuts (if using).
5 Pour mixture into a prepared muffin tin. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins.
I actually used bananas that were frozen in my freezer. I defrosted them, but they were still pretty cold and I wasn’t sure if it would make the batter too mushy, but it didn’t at all!
Christina, you have to make these, since I know you have bananas in your freezer right now!!
I doubled the recipe to make 24 and they were gone very fast!
My next baking experience didn’t turn so hot! I made chocolate chip cookies and even though I followed the directions, this is how they turned out!
It was like one GIANT cookie! WTF? So I added more flour to the rest of the batter, and the next ones turned out fine. I hate when that happens! One of my sons actually liked the flat ones because they were super chewy. They were pretty gross!
Have a super day!
I love Simply Recipes! Those banana muffins sound great! I’ve had that happen to cookies before too. I prefer a more traditional cookie, but I know a lot of people like them like that – they say they are ‘toffee-like’ π
I’m sad b/c I don’t have any bananas in my freezer right now! I also have to bake cookies tonight for a gathering tomorrow…hope might don’t all bake together!
well sure, too much butter in the mix… i would love em too!
I make a banana-choc-chip-peanut butter version…yum!!
Banana muffins sound excellent! We also had some banana muffins (with white chocolate chips) for breakfast this morning!
Simply Recipes is wonderful, and she is lovely (as well as a clever cook). It’s cold and rainy here…and I’m glad I don’t have a whole batch of these waiting for me….
I have had that happen to cookies too – always amusing!
Now I am craving baked goods!
The bananas are taking over my freezer again, I need to go on a huge baking adventure, too! Maybe I’ll mix it up and make some muffins too instead of just all loaves!
oh i hate when cookies do that! Make shapes out of it! hehe
Aw man bummer on the huge flat cookie! Looks like your muffins are delicious though!
banana and chocolate chip go so well together! you didn’t mess up those chocolate chip cookies – you made a cookie cake π
love banana muffins, and I personally like the chewy cookies also.