Connie's Corner

What to do with that one old banana?

I made some darn delicious banana muffins this afternoon! I had this poor little, almost black banana lying in the fridge, I'm sure you know the kind, so I posed the question to Google, who answered with the following easy one banana muffin recipe:

Ingredients for 9-10 banana muffins (preheat oven at 350 degrees)

1/4 cup melted butter
1 mashed banana
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon milk (mine was almond)
1 beaten egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour

I melted the butter in a bowl in the microwave and let it cool some, then added the mashed banana, the two sugars, the milk, and the egg, and stirred them all together. Into that mixture, I dumped the rest of the ingredients and stirred it well. I dropped 2 heaping tablespoons into each of 10 paper cupcake holders, and baked them for 23 minutes. Let them cool completely (if you can) before you try to take off the paper or you will lose a lot of your cupcake.

I went back to Google and added up all the calories for each ingredient ending with a total of 1500, which divided by 10 cupcakes gave each one a caloric total of 150...not too bad considering how good they are. I'm really looking forward to having (another) one with a cup of green tea later on this evening.

Lots of other things could be added in but I had nothing else handy...walnuts, chocolate chips, craisins. And they are so good as is!