Banana Chocolate Chip Healthy Muffins

  • Banana Chocolate Chip Healthy Muffins

    Look at them.

    All 15 of them.

    15 Ghirardelli chocolate chips taunting you, begging to be devoured.

    I should mention that the 15 chips (on the muffin on the right, just in case you’re confused) are merely the chips on top of the muffin, whereas an entire gang of premium chocolate chips have taken up residence inside of the muffin, also chanting “EAT ME”, in a kind of back up band sort of way to the ones on the top.  It’s really quite a deafening sound, and the only way to shut the sound up is to EAT THE MUFFINS.  Believe me, it’s not a hard thing to do when they taste so good and happen to be healthy (no butter, oils or other fats…).  So go nuts!  Mute the chocolate chips!  Eat them up.

    (Oh: I think there is a little cat hair on the muffin on the right, beside chocolate chip #15, so you might not want to eat that one in particular.  Sorry about that.)

    Adapted from my Impossibly Healthy Banana Bread with Dark Chocolate Chunks recipe…

     4 very ripe bananas, well mashed

    2 eggs plus 1 egg white, lightly beaten

    1 teaspoon vanilla

    2 cups whole wheat flour

    3/4 cups brown sugar

    1 tablespoon ground flax seeds (optional)

    1 teaspoon salt

    1 teaspoon baking soda

    3/4 cup chocolate chips, 1/4 cup reserved for sprinkling on top

    1. Preheat oven to 350° and grease a large muffin pan.
    2. Mix mashed bananas with eggs and vanilla, and then stir in flour, brown sugar, flax seeds (if using), salt and baking soda until just combined.  Gently stir in chocolate chips, pour batter in prepared muffin cups, and sprinkle chocolate chips over batter.
    3. Bake for 20 minutes (until cake tester or wooden skewer comes out mostly clean).  Set on cooling racks for 5 – 10 minutes, then remove from pans to finish cooling.

    Tips:

    • You might want to use muffin liners.  Chocolate chips tend to stick to the bottom of the pan and then NOT be in your muffin where you want them… like here.
    • No whole wheat flour?  Use all-purpose and add a couple of tablespoons.
    • No flax seeds?  No worries.  Add in a bit of wheat germ or oat bran if you have it instead, or skip.  No one will miss the flax.
    • Chocolate types… totally up to you.  Semi sweet is sort of the standard, but shake it up with bittersweet or white chocolate for a change.  Live life on the edge :).
    • Freeze these!  I freeze individually so The Husband can take one as snack in his lunch every once in a while… they thaw by the time he eats them (or maybe he wolfs them down half-frozen, I don’t know.  I wouldn’t put it past him.)
    • Enjoy.  :)

     

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    October 11th, 2014 | More Sweets Please | No Comments | Tags: , ,

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