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mmmmuffins

in a fit of procrastination (from less pleasant tasks) this morning, i decided to make banana muffins. the recipe is from mark bittman's how to cook everything, a very useful book. in fact, i used it yesterday to figure out how to cut up leeks! how's that for versatility?

banana-nut muffins

dry ingredients
* 2 cups flour (can use whole wheat for some of this, but i didn't have any, so i didn't)

* 1/2 teaspoon salt

* 3 tsp baking powder

* 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

wet ingredients
* 1/3 cup milk (recipe called for 1/4, i added more)

* 1 cup mashed ripe bananas

* 1 egg

* 3 tablespoons butter, melted

* 1/3 cup maple syrup (could also use honey or sugar) (recipe calls for 1/4 but last time we thought they weren't sweet enough -- 1/3 seemed to be better)

directions

* preheat oven to 400 degrees, and grease a muffin tin with butter or cooking spray

* mix together dry ingredients

* mix together wet ingredients (add banana & syrup last)

* make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the wet stuff in. mix until pretty much combined (and no longer!)

* spoon batter into muffin tins - you'll get 8 - 12 depending on how generous you are (i made 10)

* bake 20+ minutes or until muffins are a little brown on top and toothpick inserted into the center of one of them comes out clean

* let them rest for 5 minutes, if you can stand it, before taking them out of the tin

* eat and enjoy!

posted by sarah (SHU) @ 8:05 AM