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Banana Muffins

Ingredients

  • 1 stick of butter
  • some sugar (1/8 cup?)
  • some molasses (1/4 cup?)
  • 4-5 ripe bananas
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • spices (cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, nutmeg, clove, ginger, etc.)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375F
  2. Mix some sugar into a soft stick of butter
  3. Add molasses, bananas, and then the egg
  4. Mix in flour, baking soda, salt, and spices
  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes
  • Make carrot-ginger muffins by replacing the bananas with about three grated carrots and a grated root of ginger (100g?), start with 1 1/2 cups flour, might be all you need
  • Make zucchini muffins by replacing the bananas with about three grated zucchini (let them dry out on a cookie sheet awhile first)
  • Experiment with cacoa and fruit zest!
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