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Yummy Banana Muffins

August 17, 2011 in Vegan Simple Eating Recipes

This is supposed to be a banana bread recipe but it is easier to eat in muffin form and I don’t have any bread pans in my kitchen right now. This is another recipe that I have modified to make vegan. Healthier for my family and the world

I modified it from my Betty Crocker cookbook that has lost the front and back cover… so I don’t know what the exact name of it is, and it is on page 50 (if that helps at all)

1 cup sugar (I think it could be done with less, it was pretty sweet)
1/4 cup oil and 1/4 cup water mixed together and then mixed with the sugar
2 tbsp flax seeds ground and let sit in 1/3 cup water for a few minutes (mixed in with the sugar oil combo)
3-4 mashed bananas (mix in)
1/2 cup soy milk with 1 tbsp lemon juice (this makes a kind of buttermilk substitute)
2-3 tsps of vanilla (mix all wet ingredients)
2 cups whole wheat flour (or 2 1/2 white or a combination of both flours)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt (mix dry ingredients in all at the same time until just mixed)
1/2-1 cup of chocolate chips (or nuts or a combo)

Bake at 350. These take longer to bake because they are wetter. As a loaf it takes over an hour, as muffins it takes about 30ish minutes. Lots can depend on how may bananas or the kind of flour. Just bake until the toothpick comes out clean or it is done in the middle. enjoy

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Family Favorite Muffins

I have been messing with this recipe for over a year and made it so many different ways. By the time I got the picture taken the muffin was squished a bit but it is such a great traveling snack I had to write about it.

I use this recipe to use up anything healthy I have laying around. I have made them with pumpkin, squash, apple butter, marmalade, …. I wanted to share the basic recipe. It started as a cut out from a newspaper but it doesn’t have the author.

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon (or more)
½ tsp nutmeg (optional)
½ tsp salt
¼ oil and ¼ water mixed
½ cup sugar
1 cup fruit or vegetable mush (pumpkin, squash, carrot, apple… whatever)
1 tbsp ground flax seed that has sat in 3 tbsps water for a few minutes
2-3 tsp vanilla
½ cup chocolate chips

Mix first 6 ingredients then add next 5 and mix until blended. Last add chocolate chips. Bake at 350 for 18-20 min or sometimes a bit more depending on how wet the mixture is. Bake until toothpick comes out clean.

This makes a perfect breakfast or snack food. Fiber, protein (in the whole wheat), vegetables. One of these and a piece of fruit does great for breakfast. Low calorie and long lasting.