Banana Chocolate Muffins

I made the healthy version of these muffins this week and they were delicious!  They were so delicious, we actually had them for dessert.  I made mine with the stuff in parentheses except I did raw sugar instead of the cane juice. The recipe is from Talkin' Chow, Playin' House.  Click here to find the original post.  Here is the recipe:


1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (whole wheat flour)
1 cup granulated sugar (evaporated cane juice)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 medium ripe bananas
1/3 cup vegetable oil (grape seed oil)
1 egg
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
(1-2 tablespoons flaxseed)


In a large bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients.  In a small bowl, combine bananas, oil and egg.  Stir the wet mixture into the dry ingredients in the large bowl just until combined.  Fold in the chocolate chips.  Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups 3/4 full.  Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes!  Recipe makes about 1-2 dozen.

Quinoa Skillet and Cornbread

I made this and this over the weekend.  Cornbread got rave reviews!  The quinoa,  not so much, but I loved it!  My favorite quinoa dish so far.

Breakfast in a Muffin

This Recipe comes from My Mom.  We used to eat these all the time growing up.  My recipe card is very well loved and is written in her hand writing.  It is one of my favorite recipe cards because of this.

1 cup blended fruit [not juice]
1 egg slightly beaten
1/3 c butter [I have also substituted apple sauce for this, or half of it, and it works pretty good too]
1 c oats
1 c flour [I use whole wheat]
1/2 c sugar [can use brown or white]
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

Bake 20 minutes at 400*

Vegan Banana Bread

I got this recipe from The Fat Free Vegan Recipes, and we really like it at our house. She has a cool section on her site that tells you what you can use to subsitute for eggs in recipes. I think I am going to try some more substitutions soon.

(I just barely tried to find the exact recipe that I got off the website, and I can't find it, she has some other bread recipes there too that sound delicious, but this one we know and love, so I will post this one).

Vegan Banana Bread
3 bananas
2 T. lemon juice
4 oz. applesauce (if I don't have this, I just use an extra 1/2 c. of squashed bananas)
1/2 C. dark sugar
2 C. whole wheat flour
3/4 t. baking powder
3/4 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt

Mix wet ingredients and in seperate bowl mix dry ingredients. Add dry ingrdients to the wet and mix well.

Bake 350* for 50 minutes.
Let cool completely.
Makes one loaf.