Mom’s tried-and-true recipe gets muffinized! Which is a word.
(For pictures and credit where it’s due, check out the related blog post.)
Note: bananas that are very ripe are best for this. More ripe = more sweet. If you’re on a time crunch and you can’t wait a week for your bananas to turn brown, you can speed up the process by putting a couple of whole bananas in a bag with some apple slices and sealing it up overnight. By the next morning, your bananas will be browning and sweet!
First, mash up the bananas and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Then, mix the first six ingredients together until thoroughly combined: sugar, bananas, butter, milk, vanilla, eggs.
Next, add the remaining ingredients: flour, oats, baking soda, salt.
Stir until just BARELY combined. You just want everything moistened. It’s okay if there are a few dry looking spots. This will give you soft, fluffy muffins. Over-mixing makes your muffins dense and tough. Which is only good if you intend to use them as projectiles.
Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake wrappers. Fill each cup all the way to the top with your mixture. This will give you puffy muffintops. On your muffins. Not your pants.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes. Check them at the 20-minute mark—if you can stick a toothpick in and it comes out clean, they’re done! If not, keep baking!
Enjoy!
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These are wonderful! I just made them, and they are easy, quick and delicious. I especially like the texture the oatmeal gives them. My picky 2-year-old son is eating one as we speak, so I’d say they are a success. Thanks for the recipe!
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stina42 on 4.30.2010
Ok it might have been me, though I didn’t mix too much when adding the dried ingredients and the extras I just folded in so no mixing there. They turned out a bit rubbery on the bottom. It might be that I only had paper tins left too. Otherwise it was a good recipe. I’ll be making them again.
stina42 on 4.30.2010
I just mixed these up and put them in the oven. I did use 1/4 c applesauce and 1/4 c butter instead of the full 1/2 c butter. I also added a handful of walnuts and some cinnamon. I can’t wait for them to be done. Thanks for sharing.
coco on 4.8.2010
Taste was great. I, too, missed that I should not overmix batter…will know better next time.
soapnana on 4.6.2010
These tasted soooo good! I apparently am not a very good reader, though, because I missed that I wasn’t supposed to stir the crap out of the dry and wet ingredients, so they turned out a bit dense. I always have almost-rotting bananas around the apartment, though, so I’ll try these again.
One question – I don’t have a countertop mixer, so I used a hand mixer to combine the wet ingredients, but I could see the eggs starting to get foamy before the butter had been fully mixed in. Should I just let the butter soften before mixing and do it by hand to avoid that?
Thanks for the recipe!
daisee on 3.30.2010
These were great! My 10 year old son made them without any supervision and they turned out delicious! Thank you!