muffins

Cinnamon Banana Bread Muffins

| Kissablelipsbymikaila

Prep: 5 min

Cook Time: 10-20 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2/3 cup mashed banana (about 2 small bananas)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

cinnamon & sugar topping

  • 3 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Spray bottom of muffin cups (regular or mini size) with cooking spray. Or use liners.
  2. In medium bowl combine the sugar, oil, eggs and stir with wire whisk. Add in bananas and vanilla, whisk until combined.
  3. Add in flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and stir together until just combined.
  4. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups. If using regular size muffin tin they’ll be about 3/4 full. I used a 1 1/2 tablespoon scoop to fill mini muffin tins and ended up with 1 1/2 batches (35 mini muffins)
  5. Bake regular size 17-21 minutes or mini size 10-12 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and muffins are high and round on top. The tops of the muffins should not look wet. Edges will be more browned.
  6. Remove muffins and let cool slightly. Place on cooling rack if you have one.
  7. Meanwhile, make cinnamon & sugar topping: Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Put melted butter in a separate bowl (microwaved 15 sec increments to melt). Dip muffin tops into melted butter and then into cinnamon-sugar. Serve warm or let cool completely.

Spinach “Green” Muffins

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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce (about one single serving cup)
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 cup fresh spinach, packed
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Processes wet ingredients in a blender: applesauce, egg, vanilla, spinach, sugar and oil.
  3. Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl: flour baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  4. Add the wet spinach mixture to the dry ingredients.
  5. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet until combined. You can use a spoon or spatula. The mixture will be very dense! On occasion, if it seems too dense, I’ll add a splash of milk to loosen it up, but the mixture should resemble a thick cookie dough. It won’t pour easily.
  6. Scoop the batter into greased muffin tins. This recipe will make 8-9 large muffins or 24 mini-muffins.
  7. Bake for 12 minutes for mini-muffins or 17 minutes for regular-sized muffins.
  8. Let them cool on a rack and enjoy! 

~Recipe adapted from mamasaywhat.com