Banana Walnut Muffins
I was staring at these 3 tired old bananas, and thought I'd use 'em up tout de suite. I found an old banana bread recipe, but didn't really want to do a big old loaf so I made it for muffins instead, with a few modifications...
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups whole wheat flour (though you could use all-purpose)
- 2/3 cup sugar (the original recipe calls for 1 cup but I just didn't want to use that much)
- 3 mashed bananas
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts (I think I could have added more)
- pinch of salt
If you're doing the loaf, it calls for baking it at 325 degrees for 1 hour, but I baked it at 25 minutes in a muffin tin and they turned out well! It was a fairly thick batter, but I think it's because I was just doing it in one bowl and was adding the ingredients as I went along. When I make this again, I think that I'll change the sequence to : bananas, sugar, butter, eggs, cinnamon, soda, vanilla, salt then the flour! Then I won't work so hard to incorporate everything!
Just had a muffin with some yummy red roiboos tea with milk. They go really well together!
5 Comments:
Oh my they look delicious! I admit I'm a self-proclaimed muffin person. I prefer muffins over cakes and to some extent breads (the flavored ones at least). This looks good and I'm not much of a "banana" person. Thanks! I might actually try doing this some day!
January 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Love my banana bread recipe but hate making the loaves - muffins sounds so much better and don't sound as dense. I've put my batter in a cake pan before and just put a glaze on top. Texture came out totally different, really light, and was good.
I actually have 3 bananas sitting on top of the toaster staring at me. By this weekend they'll be just ripe....feel like a baking day coming on.
Thanks for the inspiration.
January 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
No walnuts, gotta have those choco chips in there though!!! Muffins are definitely more portable and are easier beings. But the cinnamon. Love cinnamon... Mmm..
January 8, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Happy to report that the muffins have held up nicely second day. I worried that it would be dry but they're still yummy!
January 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Lovely looking muffins. I have developed a taste for banana bread lately. I'm trying to turn us into a "no waste" household... Besides, banana bread is one of those things that you can actually substitute Splenda for the sugar and it turns out right. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
January 9, 2009 at 5:35 AM
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