Rainy Labor Day Baked Good .. :)

Ahh what a rainy gross labor day!! BOO ... I hope everyone had an amazing weekend so far, and will enjoy the rest of this rainy day.. On the up side, its a great day to relax and maybe BAKE!? WOO 

SO - Before I go on w/ this post, I am totally NOT a baker! I usually don't bake that much, I love to - especially in the fall, but I am most definitely better at cooking!! Since its a rainy day, my husband is working on our basement, I already went to yoga, cleaned, went grocery shopping and did laundry I thought.. HMMM I have got to do something productive today - I decided to use some of the food that I have here to bake something sweet to have this week :) 

I make a very good banana bread, but I decided to experiment today w/ Banana Muffins!! Yummm.. They turned out awesome and I used ALL healthy ingredients :) 

Here's the deal, when I look up recipes or want to make something, I usually look at a bunch of different ones and then I choose the best one and even then tweak it a little bit to be what I want.. Sometimes, It def does not come out as planned, but recently I have been pretty lucky! When I write the ingredients here and the step by step process, keep in mind that I always use organic/all natural ingredients no matter what the recipe says and it usually comes out fine.. OK - So lets get started..

Super Simple Delicious Banana Muffins

To start you need two mixing bowls, an electric mixer, and some spoons...

Step 1 - The first three ingredients needs to be mixed together until smooth in a big mixing bowl (use the bigger bowl for this step b/c you will put the rest of the ingredients in this bowl).. 

 The first three ingredients are .. 2 Bananas (these can be really ripe or kind of ripe), 1 large egg, and 1/4 cup of fat free milk...

Note: The eggs are cage free organic and the milk is organic with no rBT.. both are from my awesome CSA :)

Add all three to the bowl and get ready to mix... The trick is, before you use the mixer mush up the bananas so that they are easier to mix until smooth.. 

 After you mix, it will look like this..

Next, you need to mix in the dry ingredients... 

1 Cup of whole wheat flour...

1 TBSP baking power

1/2 TSP of baking soda

1/8 TSP of salt

Fold those ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix .. :) 

At this point, pre-heat your oven to 350 and get your muffin cups ready.. You can use the paper muffin cups, I didn't have any today so I used my good old mister (you can see it in the back w/ the green lid) and I greased the muffin pan and filled each cup about 3/4 of the way full.. This recipe makes 12 muffins.. 

Now for my favorite part! :).. Add a few chocolate chips to the top of each muffin.. I added between 5 and 10 to the top of each.. 

Bake on 350 for around 15 minutes.. I ended up taking them out around 13 mins and they were absolutely perfect.. Check them by stick a toothpick into one :) 

I thought that they would be difficult to remove from the muffin pan, but it was SUPER easy and it came right out.. 

AND - Here is the final product... serve by itself, warm it up and serve w/ some peanut butter and its a delicious snack..

The best yet is that there is NO added sugar and NO butter! :)

WOOO!!! I am going to go eat one!!!

Stay tuned for Zucchini Pizzas - Tonight's dinner!

Live Well xoxo