A Quick Fix

I came home today realizing that we ran out of bread.  We can't run out of bread because we have to have bread for breakfast in the morning. I don't have time to cook breakfast on work days.

But we were heading to church for Ash Wednesday service and after mass, I had to make dinner--fast!  So there was no time to run to the groceries for bread.

Luckily, we had three pieces of very ripe, perfectly speckled bananas--perfect for banana muffins!  The rest of the ingredients were not a problem--I always have a supply of flour, sugar, eggs and butter in my kitchen.

I call this "Banana Cran-Choc-Nut Muffins" because they're banana muffins with cranberries, chocolate chips and walnuts.  This took less than 10 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook.  Super quick and super easy!

Now, this piece, I'm afraid, will not live to see the morning...

Here's the recipe for those of you who would like to try making them:

You need:

3 large ripe bananas (mashed)

120 gram melted butter

105 grams sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs lightly beaten

150 grams all-purpose flour

75 grams cake flour (if you don't have cake flour, you can use all-purpose flour)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

60 grams (or two handsful) semi-sweet chocolate chips

60 grams (or two handsful) dried cranberries or craisins

30 grams (a handful) chopped walnuts or pecans (you can put more if you want more nuts)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C. Line muffin pan with muffin liners or paper cups.

2.  Mix the dry ingredients (second set of ingredients above), including the chocolate chips, cranberries and nuts. Mixing the chocolate chips, fruits and nuts with the flour is a trick that I use so that when you mix the dry and the wet ingredients later on, they won't sink in the bottom of the batter.  Aha! ;-)

3. Mix well the wet ingredients (first set of ingredients above) in a separate bowl and then pour the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients.  Mix well.

4. Scoop the batter into the lined muffin pans and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the muffin.

You can do this all by hand.  No mixer needed.  Enjoy!!!