Anonymous wrote:Best muffin recipe ever.....only changes I make - replace some oil with applesauce and use dark choco chips from Whole Foods.


2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt



3/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled, or canola oil

2 eggs



4 very ripe bananas

1-2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 milk



Chocolate chips

Walnuts or pecans


Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil spray, or butter the tins.

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

Mash together 4 bananas until very liquid. Add vanilla, one to 2 tsps, depending on how much you like the smell and taste of vanilla. Add milk. Set aside.

Mix together butter and sugar. Beat eggs into the mixture.

Add half of flour mixture to the butter, sugar and egg mix. Then add half of the banana mixture to it. Rest of flour to egg mixture, and then the rest of the banana mixture. Blend together until all ingredients just mixed. Do not overmix, or your muffins will be hard.

Fold in chocolate chips, 1-2 cups, depending on how chocolatey you like your muffins, and then nuts, 1/2 to 1 cup, depending on how nutty you like your muffins. Spoon into muffin tins until they are about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle muffin comes out clean. (Each oven is different.) Take out of muffin tins as soon as they are cool enough to handle.