Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

What do you do with the very ripe bananas on your counter? Make banana muffins of course! This delightful muffin is light, moist and chocolatey. The recipe comes from  my new friend Micaela, who makes them gluten free with the substitution of Bob's Red Mill gluten free all purpose flour for regular AP flour. Micaela tells me that this is a very forgiving recipe and can handle pretty much any substitution. Next time I might try using corn oil instead of the Earth Balance.

I have posted her original recipe with vegan subs in the parenthesis. Enjoy!

3 lg bananas

1 1/2 c flour 

1 c brown sugar

1/2 c butter (1 Earth Balance stick)

2 egg (2 Tbsp ground golden flaxseed mixed in 6 Tbsp water)

1/4 c sour cream (1/4 cup rice milk with a couple drops of lemon juice to sour it)

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup vegan chocolate chips or nuts (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350

2. cream together butter and sugar

3. add sour cream, eggs, mashed bananas and vanilla

4. mix all dry ingredients and add to mixture

5. pour batter into greased muffin tins or lined with baking cups

6. Bake for 20-30 minutes until muffins are golden brown and spring back to the touch

7. ENJOY!!!!!

A-Maize-ing Corn Muffins!

Yes, I know that I am a CORN-ball!

The recipe for these mini corn muffins were adapted by yours truly from the cornbread recipe on the package of Bob's Red Mill cornmeal.

1 cup corn meal

1 cup white whole wheat flour

1-4 tbsp sugar (optional depending how sweet you want your muffins to be)

1 tbsp agave syrup (my idea!)

1/2 tsp salt

4 tsp baking powder

1 cup milk (I use soy)

1 egg ( I use Ener-G egg replacer)

1/4 cup butter (I use Earth Balance vegan sticks)

1/4 cup corn oil (optional)

Mix dry ingredients and add wet ingredients mixing until all are incorporated. Do not to over mix. Bake in buttered mini muffin pans for 20 minutes. This recipe made 24 mini muffins and 4 regular size muffins. Regular muffins baked for about 25 minutes. I used the toothpick test to determine doneness (tooth pick placed in center of muffin comes clean)