Delicious Banana Muffins (big and fluffy)

 https://meaningfuleats.com/gluten-free-banana-muffins/

• 1 2/3 cups (250g) gluten-free 1:1 baking flour
• ▢1/2 cup (50g) almond flour
• ▢1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢1/2 teaspoon salt

WET INGREDIENTS:

• ▢1 1/2 cups (345g) mashed bananas 4 bananas
• ▢1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar
• ▢1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
• ▢1/3 cup (75g) neutral-flavored oil I use avocado 
• ▢1/4 cup (60g) sour cream 
• ▢1 tablespoon milk
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1. Line one 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners or lightly grease with cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. In another bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients.
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix with a rubber spatula until just combined and no dry streaks remain. If adding any chocolate chips or nuts, fold them in when the batter is just about mixed to avoid over-mixing.
4. Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tin. Fill the tins all the way up! Refrigerate the muffins for 20 minutes before baking. Preheat the oven to 425F.
5. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 350F and bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean and the muffins spring back when touched on top.
6. Let cool for 3-5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy

Chocolate Carrot Cake

 Mix in one bowl:

2 eggs

1 mashed banana

1 tsp vamilla

1/3 cup oil

1 cup applesauce

Mix in another bowl:

2 cups clour

1.5 cup sugar

1/4 cup cocoa

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

Combine wet and dry

Fold in 2 cups grated carrots and 1 cup chocolate chips

 

Bake at 350 for 50 minutes in a bundt pan

Banana Bread

 3 ripe bananas

1/2 cup honey/maple syrup

3 tablespoons canola oil 

1 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry

1 1/2 tsp baking soda 

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 cup walnuts

1 tsp vanilla 

Banana Bread from Biggoo

 

Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

 

Banana Cookies

Cream 1 stick butter with 2 very ripe bananas and 1- cup sugar. Add 1 egg and a splash of vanilla.

Dry ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1 t soda, 1/2 t each of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.

Combine dry into wet. Stir in 1 cup of pecans or walnuts.

Spoon dollops onto cookie sheet and place a dark chocolate Hershey kiss in the center of each. Alternatively you could add chocolate chips.

Bake at 350 for 11 minutes

Banana Ricotta Muffins

Adapted from The Chubby Vegetarian:

2 small bananas mashed (or 1 1/2 large)
1/2 cup ricotta
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup canola
3/4 cup sucanat
2 t vanilla

1 3/4 c whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 t salt

wet, dry, wet into dry...throw in a handful of chocolate chips if you want

Put in muffin tins.  Top with topping:

1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 T brown sugar
pinch salt

Cook 25 min at 375.

Banana Gingerbread

I've listed below the flours I used with great success but you can use all purpose flour or barley flour or any other combo.

1 cup spelt flour
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry
1 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup brown sugar
4 tsp ground ginger
generous sprinkles of cinnamon, all spice, clove, and nutmeg

Combine the above dry ingredients (I sifted them kind of). Then make a hole in the middle and drop in:

1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup molasses
2 eggs
1/3 cup+ brown rice syrup
1/4 cup orange juice

Combine. Add 1 cup raisins

In a separate bowl, mash 3 very ripe bananas and fold into the batter.

Pour into an 11x7 pan that has been lightly oiled and lined with parchment (on top of the oil).

Bake 40 minutes at 350

Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Bowl 1
2 1/4 cups flour (cake flour or all purpose, or half white and half whole wheat pastry)
1/2 t baking powder
3/4 t baking soda
1/2 t salt

Bowl 2
1/2 cup butter creamed
add 1 1/4 cup sugar
add 2 eggs

Bowl 3
1 cup very ripe mashed banana (a cuisinart works well)
1 t vanilla
1/4 cup yogurt

Combine bowls 3 and 1 to 2 alternately

Put in muffin tins and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.

Top with Cream Cheese Frosting

1 pkg cream cheese
1/4 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 t vanilla

You could add 1/2 c cocoa if you want chocolate frosting

Pumpkin Banana Muffins

2 over-ripe bananas
1 can pumpkin
2 eggs
1/3 cup canola oil
1/2- cup honey
1/2- cup brown sugar
3/4 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup pecans

1 cup whole grain pastry flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup flax meal
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
1/2 t salt

cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, etc.

Combine wet to dry. top with cinnamon sugar. Makes about 18 muffins. Bake at 375 about 25 minutes

Banana Bran muffins

Preheat to 375

1 egg (or 2 egg whites)
1/3 cup maple syrup or 1/2 cup brown sugar
3 bananas, mashed
1/3 cup oil or 1/4 cup oil and 1/4 cup flaxseed meal
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup raisins and/or walnuts
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or white flour)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup wheat bran
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

opt: handful of chocolate chips

Sprinkle cinnamon sugar (or cinnamon/cardamom sugar) on the
top of each!! Makes 12 muffins. Bake 20-25
minutes. They are really healthy and absolutely
delicious. ENJOY!

Variation: For a lighter muffin, stick to the canola oil (no flax), use wheat germ instead of wheat bran, and use 1 cup of ww pastry and 1/2 cup of white whole wheat. Everything else is the same.

Banana Curry

Oil, mustard seeds, chopped bananas, yogurt, turmeric, chili. Shouldn't take more than two or three minutes. The yogurt will sort of seperate if you don't use greek yogurt, so try (1) to keep the skillet not too hot, and (2) to sort of drop the yogurt down on the bananas instead of on the skillet itself. This should help a bit.

This dish is a quiet epiphany.