Minis

Last summer a good friend of mine came for a visit. She has two small boys, I have two small boys. Chaos ensued and it was all great fun.
One thing I noticed was that my friend brought loads of these cute little mini banana muffins. Her boys ate like 5 for breakfast every morning. Five.
I knew I needed that recipe.

Here's the problem. Those little mini muffins were good. Too good.
I needed to healthy them up a bit, or I would be in serious caloric trouble.

So, I took out the all-purpose flour and subbed for whole wheat. I completely skipped the (delicious) cinnamon and sugar topping. I opted out of the oil and used unsweetened applesauce instead.
I also took out a full 2/3 cup of white sugar.

The results.
Good. Really good.

O.k. Fine. They are still not SUPER healthy...but better.

And still really good.

Colin had 4 for breakfast.

The perfect little 2 bites of muffins.




Mini Banana Muffins
recipe adapted from Susan Hall

3 C Flour                                       

2 teaspoons baking soda              

2 teaspoons cinnamon                   

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves (I did not have cloves...so I skipped)         

1/2 teaspoon salt                              

6 extra-ripe Bananas  (I freeze mine and include the extra defrosted juices for flavor)                      

1/2 C.  unsweetened applesauce

 4 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla

1/3C Dark brown sugar, packed. ( I only had light brown sugar, so that will work as well)

1 Stick Butter, softened                   

1 C White Sugar

Preheat oven to 250* degrees. Grease and flour pans. Combine first 5 ingredients

in a large bowl and stir well to mix; set aside. Mash Bananas and combine with the

vegetable oil; set aside. Cream Butter and white sugar; add brown sugar and mix well.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Mix in Banana mixture. On medium

speed, add flour mixture to batter. Add vanilla. Pour batter into muffin tins. 

 Bake for 30-35 min. If making mini loafs; Bake for 1 hour 15 min.

Simple. Easy. Delicious. Kid- friendly.

My type of recipe.


Enjoy!