Wednesday, November 16, 2011

My Easy Morning Muffins

Mornings are always stressful when you work 9 to 5 (or 10 to 5... or freelance from your bed), and eating breakfast isn't always a top priority. I thought I'd share with you a little trick I've got up my sleeve that allows me to sleep in a little most mornings and still have a bite before I fly out the door.

I am totally disabled when it comes to baking, but these are easy, fast, delicious, and healthy—so they'll start your day off right.

Whole Wheat Banana Bread Muffins
A 100% Laura Kathleen original recipe


Make a batch of these babies for the week. Stick 'em in the freezer and toast one or two in the morning. You can spread some butter or jam on them or just eat them as is while you are running for the streetcar.


1. Preheat your oven to 325.


2. Select three or four or your brownest, most overripe bananas and mash them with a fork.


You'll want the mashed bananas to look like this. Make sure you leave some chunks in there.


3. Melt about half a cup of butter. This is never glamorous. Do whatever you have to do to get that butter into liquid form.


4. Take all these ingredients—that's 1 cup of sugar, 1.5 cups of whole wheat flour, 1 tsp each of baking soda, salt, and vanilla, and one egg—and mix them together with the bananas. Chocolate chips are another welcome addition.


The mixture should look like this.


5. Grease a muffin tin, fill 'em up, and put the delicious mixture into the oven. Bake for about 25 minutes, but keep an eye on them.


6. Tell your boyfriend that the only way he is allowed to eat any is if he cleans up and does the dishes. There are usually a lot of dishes and a big mess involved when I make these muffins.

7. When the muffins are done you'll be able to tell because the smell will be so overwhelming that you can't wait anymore. You'll also be able to stick a fork in and have it be fairly clean when it comes out. I like my muffins a little more gooey than that, though.


8. Eat one of those bad boys right away. They are so tasty when first out of the oven. Freeze the rest and look forward to getting up every morning so you can have another.

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