Bored one Sunday morning, still suffering from the miserable failure of the Healthy Mug Cake from last night (coming soon!), I decided to make something sort of healthy (but still delicious) to give myself some confidence back. Since The Best Recipe is consistently amazing, I decided to peruse the pages and find something to make. I chose muffins since it was a Sunday morning and my brothers would be ravenous when they got back from their workout.
I apologize in advance for the terrible lighting in these photos. I'm trying to find the ideal lighting for food photography.
Banana-Chocolate Chip Muffins (adapted from The Best Recipe):
Makes 12 large muffins or a heck of a lot of mini muffins
UPDATE: I made mini muffins this weekend. The recipe made 53 muffins using a heaping tablespoon of batter for each muffin. I thought I'd tell you since "a heck of a lot" isn't the most descriptive.
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup packed brown sugar
I apologize in advance for the terrible lighting in these photos. I'm trying to find the ideal lighting for food photography.
Banana-Chocolate Chip Muffins (adapted from The Best Recipe):
Makes 12 large muffins or a heck of a lot of mini muffins
UPDATE: I made mini muffins this weekend. The recipe made 53 muffins using a heaping tablespoon of batter for each muffin. I thought I'd tell you since "a heck of a lot" isn't the most descriptive.
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Scant 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2 large eggs
1-1/2 cups plain low-fat yogurt (substitute 1 cup greek yogurt and 1/2 cup skim milk if you don't have plain yogurt)
2 large bananas, finely chopped (about 1-1/2 cups)
3/4-1 cup chocolate chips
12 muffin liners or vegetable cooking spray or unsalted butter
Instructions:
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat to 375 degrees.
Whisk both flours, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, roughly 2 minutes.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after adding each egg.
Beat in half the flour mixture.
Beat in one-third the yogurt.
Beat remaining dry ingredients and yogurt in two batches each, alternating. (Flour-yogurt-flour-yogurt.)
Fold in banana and chocolate chips.
Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable cooking spray or coat each with butter or use muffin liners.
Divide batter evenly amongst cups. Bake until golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes in tins, then remove from tin and serve.
The thing I love about The Best Recipe is that each basic recipe includes a bunch of variations. It also leaves room for your own variations. There wasn't actually a recipe for banana-chocolate chip muffins, but there were ones for banana almond and chocolate pecan, so I combined them. Since I wanted to make these a little healthier, I substituted some whole wheat flour for some of the all-purpose, although they are by no means a health food. However, they are absolutely worth it.
Not only are these delicious, they are by far the prettiest muffins I've ever seen–better even than bakery muffins. They had a rounded top and were a gorgeous golden brown.
12 muffin liners or vegetable cooking spray or unsalted butter
Instructions:
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat to 375 degrees.
Whisk both flours, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
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| Why are the worst things for you so good? |
Beat in half the flour mixture.
The thing I love about The Best Recipe is that each basic recipe includes a bunch of variations. It also leaves room for your own variations. There wasn't actually a recipe for banana-chocolate chip muffins, but there were ones for banana almond and chocolate pecan, so I combined them. Since I wanted to make these a little healthier, I substituted some whole wheat flour for some of the all-purpose, although they are by no means a health food. However, they are absolutely worth it.
Not only are these delicious, they are by far the prettiest muffins I've ever seen–better even than bakery muffins. They had a rounded top and were a gorgeous golden brown.
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| Aren't they gorgeous? |
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| I'm gushing about these like they're my children. |
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| My babies! |
The chocolate chips were perfect in the muffins (if you want lots of them, use a cup instead of 3/4 of a cup). The banana is great also, but you can't mash them or they get lost in the wonderful flavor of the rest of the muffin.
Best. Muffins. EVER!
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