Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

My mom and her partner keep buying bananas but letting them go brown. And since no one likes to eat brown bananas, I’ve decided to continue baking with them. I didn’t want to make a whole banana bread loaf again because I wanted to easily take some of my goodies to share. Thus, I searched for and found a recipe at Nami-Nami for Banana Muffins with Pecans. I didn’t have pecans, so I used chocolate chips instead, because you really can’t go wrong with chocolate chips.

My mom’s partner doesn’t like to have all these goodies laying around in plain sight, so she freezes it all. I thought the slices of my banana bread wouldn’t be good frozen and then thawed, but they’re really no different. So…good suggestion.

one last frozen slice of banana bread, and four banana chocolate chip muffins! noms.

Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread

I’ve always seen recipes on the back of ingredient packages, but I’ve never bothered to make them. I figure “Eh, I’ve got my own recipes.” This time, however, I decided to go for it for two reasons:

1. Urban Organic has been delivering over ripe, bruised bananas. I never want to eat them, but they’re perfect for banana bread!
2. I made butter this weekend, and when you make butter, you get buttermilk. That was the real key to choosing this recipe – it called for the exact amount of buttermilk I made!

So I followed the recipe on the back of the Gold Medal flour package and it turned out great. It didn’t last two days in my apartment.

my bread looked exactly like betty crocker's. for serious.