September is almost over and there’s no end in sight for the heat here in central Florida. I was hoping it would start to cool down by now a bit so we could enjoy some more camping. We’ve really enjoyed taking out our vintage camper to the area’s campsites. We get to see so much wildlife and experience the great outdoors. It’s so much fun to camp with the kids and make S’mores over a campfire. We all love it.
This past week I had a school function, a little coffee for my son’s grade. I brought these little Banana Nutella muffins. They were a huge hit. But who doesn’t love banana and chocolate together? It’s the perfect combo. I let my family sample them first, and the insisted I leave half of them at home. My son absolutely couldn’t get enough of them.
We will definitely be using this recipe again in place of our regular banana bread recipe. This is officially my new favorite way to use up those really ripe bananas.
Yield: 4 muffins
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 very ripe bananas, smashed
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
2 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Heat oven to 350°. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add Bananas to a separate bowl and mush well. Add oil, milk, eggs, sugar and vanilla extract. Mix well. Add dry ingredients to wet and mix just until incorporated.
Spoon mixture into muffin cups, about 2/3 full. For these I used a square of parchment paper. Add about 1 teaspoon Nutella to each muffin cup. Take a toothpick and swirl.
Bake at 350° for 18 - 20 minutes, or until lightly browned and done. Toothpick will come out clean when inserted into the part of the muffin that doesn't have Nutella in it.