Thursday, May 7, 2009

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins!


This morning I decided to bake banana bread. I've never made banana bread much less ANY bread. It was then that I realized that I don't even own a bread pan! So I decided on muffins :)  As usual I looked at a TON of recipes and came up with my own version.  Here it is!

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup of apple sauce (instead of butter or margarine)
  • 1 cup of sugar (we use Sugar in the Raw)
  • 2 eggs
  • 3-4 bananas
  • 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • a dash of cinnamon
  • a pinch of salt
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. spray muffin pans with cooking spray
  3. Cream apple sauce and sugar together
  4. Beat in eggs then bananas (I loaned my beater to my SIL in San Antonio at Easter time and forgot to get it back...so I did this by hand).
  5. Add vanilla, cinnamon and salt.
  6. Add in flour and baking soda and stir in just until it's mixed in.
  7. Stir in chocolate chips
  8. Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
These turned out VERY yummy and healthy (for the most part). It yielded 18 muffins.
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