Cooper is obsessed with fruit, so we basically weigh him down with an orchard’s-worth every time we pack his lunch. However, we forgot to take into account the fact that he wouldn’t be in school for four days due to Thanksgiving, so we ended up with some extra bananas that were rapidly turning brown.
Banana bread is one of those things that I always say I’m going to make, but the bananas invariably get thrown away, because I never actually do. I just have some sort of mental block against banana bread– I always think it’s going to be way more complicated than it actually is, I guess.
In any case, I had a few days off (and the previously mentioned browning bananas), and muffins seemed to be the thing to do with both. I went on to my Big Oven iPhone app (I mention them a lot, but I’m not shilling, I swear!) and tried to find an easy banana muffin recipe. I certainly succeeded. With only six ingredients, it took just a couple of minutes to whip up.
Now, this isn’t a healthy recipe, by any means. I’m sure I could have modified it, but I just stuck with what it said, which includes an entire stick of butter. However, I did do a half cup of brown sugar and a half cup of white sugar instead of a full cup of white sugar. Okay, just typing this out makes it sound really bad, which it is, but they’re quite delicious.
It is a very basic recipe, so if you’d like, you can certainly dress it up a little bit. I just added some cinnamon, but I’m sure some nutmeg, etc. would have been nice as well. If you’re really pressed for time, I recommend mini-muffins– it cut the baking time down to about 15 minutes.
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on Nov 28, 2010 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
