September 26, 2012
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One-Banana Bread (Muffins)
So I had a banana and it was brown. I mean really gooey soft brown. I remembered that I posted a banana bread recipe on here a little while ago, so I went back to look for it. For some reason, I thought the recipe called for 1 banana or maybe 1.5 bananas. Nope, it calls for 3 bananas.
You can see the recipe here: Banana Bread.
Because I'm crazy, I decided to third the recipe. Mike was like, "Just throw the banana away." But I was determined!
Here's my thirded and edited recipe (differs slightly from the original post linked above):
(Makes 4 normal-sized muffins.)
1 over-ripe banana
1 tbs butter
1/4 c sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
pinch and a half salt
~1/3 tsp baking soda
1/2 c flour
handful chocolate chipsPreheat oven to 350F.
Take the butter out of the fridge.
In a medium bowl, mash banana. Add butter and chop/mash/cut in as well as you can. You'll end up with mostly gooey consistent banana with chunks of butter, oh well.
Add sugar, vanilla, salt, and baking soda. I literally have a measuring spoon that says "pinch" on it (1/16 tsp) that I normally use in my salt jar. And I only had a 1/4 tsp measuring spoon for baking soda, hence the approximation for baking soda. Stir.
Add flour, stir until consistent.Spray muffin pan (or at least four of the wells) with Pam. Divvy out mixture (2/3 full). I added 6-8 chocolate chips in two of the muffins, as an experiment. Bake for 20 minutes.
They turned our pretty tasty! And I didn't have the problem I had last time of banana bread overload. You eat one, it's yum. You eat another one and you're like, okay that's enough banana for awhile. And look how perfect, there aren't any leftovers you have to force yourself to finish before it goes bad.
I liked the plain ones better. Mike liked the chocolate chip ones slightly better (but he said not a LOT better).
It's maybe a pain to wash an entire 12-well muffin pan for four muffins (well, I used to have a 6-well pan, so I guess that wouldn't be as bad), but I more often have one banana left over and over-ripe than 3, so I'm glad I tried this and that it worked out.
[Edit]
I just realized something funny. I forgot the egg again! Although I would've skipped it anyway because how do you third an egg, I actually didn't mean to do it. I just didn't see it when I glanced over the list of ingredients in the original recipe. I also skipped the egg in the Cranberry Orange Scones I made last time, but it also turned out fine. ^^;
