Very Chocolatey Banana Muffins; Meatless Monday.

The holy calendar month of Ramadan is going on for all Muslims worldwide. During "Iftar", when it is fourth dimension for them to suspension their fast, they normally accept some work solid unit of measurement or friends some together with it is a pocket-sized celebration of kinds each day. This recipe comes inwards handy for Iftar equally in that place is non much to live on done inwards the actual procedure of prepping together with cooking.

Everyone inwards my abode together with at run beloved my banana bread.I brand the eggless oatmeal flaxmeal banana raisin bread and the gluten costless banana walnut cranberry bread, both of which are much liked past times everyone.But in that place is i petty problem. My kids exercise non similar it alongside nuts!!! So I brand them equally muffins for them. My immature adult woman volition gladly consume them for luncheon together with it makes for a perfect "grab together with go" breakfast for me. However, neither me nor my kids consume big portions. I hence exercise non similar humongous muffins. I similar my muffins the size of a regular cupcake. My kids similar them fifty-fifty smaller. So, I brand mini-muffins for them together with they are happy petty campers!! I similar to add together the chocolate chips into these muggins equally they hold off pretty together with enticing . Then i time to a greater extent than who doesn't similar chocolate?? Recently a friend of mine had an informal birthday political party for i of her daughters. I had made these mini-muffins then. They were gone earlier nosotros knew it. So hither is an slow recipe that tin live on had for breakfast, snack or equally dessert!

Servings: makes some two dozen mini-muffins together with i dozen muffins.

Ingredients :

Whole wheat flour: two cups + 1 tbsp ( for Gluten-free,use oat flour)
Baking soda: 1 tsp
Salt:1/4 tsp
Ground cinnamon: ½ tsp
Ground nutmeg: ¼ tsp
Vanilla extract:1 tsp
Butter:1/2 cup
Brown sugar:3/4 cup
Eggs: three beaten ( For eggless version, exercise three tbsp flaxmeal mixed inwards ix tbsp water).
Overripe bananas: two cups(3-4 bananas),mashed
Dark Chocolate chips :1/2 loving cup +1/2 cup,chopped.

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Line the muffin together with mini-muffin pans alongside cupcake liners together with proceed ready.

Mix 1/2 loving cup chocolate chips alongside 1 tbsp flour together with proceed aside.

Beat together the butter, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg inwards a medium bowl until smooth. Add the banana, together with eggs, beating until smooth.
Add the flour stirring until smooth. Mix inwards 1/2 loving cup chocolate chips.Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan until each liner is 3/4 full. Drop 3-4 chocolate chip on transcend of each muffin 2-3 on each mini-muffin.

Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven together with bake for fifteen mins for the muffin pan together with 6-8 mins for the mini-muffin pan. Do cheque if done past times inserting a toothpick into the middle of the muffin. It should come upwards out clean.

Remove the pan from the oven together with allow it to cool for 10 minutes earlier removing the muffins out of the pan onto a rack to cool completely.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Enjoy alongside a overnice loving cup of java or tea.

Cooking made easy:

Cupcake liners are slow to exercise inwards muffin pans equally it makes cleaning the pans a breeze. Also packing, serving together with eating the muffin when a liner is used is easier together with to a greater extent than hygienic. Iy looks pretty too..However, if yous run out of liners, yous tin grease the muffin pan together with brand pour the batter straight into the pan .

Tip for well for yous living:

Using whole wheat flour inwards cakes together with muffins makes desserts a tiny flake to a greater extent than healthier equally whole wheat flour has to a greater extent than nutrients together with is less processed than all exercise flour or maida.

Food for thought:

To read without reflecting is similar eating without digesting. Edmund Burke