Banana-Chocolate Chip Muffins

Muffin mix can be sooo expensive! But I love basically eating cupcakes for breakfast, so I finally found a terrific, from-scratch muffin recipe and thought I'd share. =) This should make 2 dozen muffins. (I use one of those cookie baller scoop thingies to measure out the amount I put in each cup.)

Ingredients:

2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips (I used semi-sweet.)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

[1] Mash bananas in a medium bowl. Add eggs, brown sugar, margarine and vanilla and beat until well blended.

[2] In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour in chocolate chips and the banana mixture. Stir just until blended.

[3] Spoon into greased muffin pan. Bake at 350 for 15-17 minutes. Remove from pan and let them cool. Enjoy them warm!



I think that the next time I make these I will add a third banana. They didn't have a strong banana taste and I think it would make them moister, too. Other than that, we loved these muffins! I made 18 regular ones and 12 mini muffins that the kids each had 4 of right away. Super fun morning snack!