I have always loved baking. I didn’t discover a love of cooking until after I got married three years ago, but baking, I’ve always loved. Granted, my definition of “baking” before was using boxed mix, I still always loved baked goods more than anything else. As I’ve grown in my cooking skills, my baking skills have grown too. I remember the first time I tried to make muffins. I used a complicated recipe that required lots of unnecessary steps and in the end my muffins didn’t turn out at all. Didn’t even make it to the oven. So now, even though I love baking, I still prefer easy recipes that truly anyone can bake from. Good food just simply doesn’t have to be complicated.
If you buy bananas often, you’ve probably run across a time or two where your bananas aged faster than you were able to eat them. We go through phases in our house… some weeks we both eat a banana a day and we can’t buy them fast enough. Then suddenly, and usually after I just bought a big bunch of bananas, we grow tired of them and don’t eat them as quickly. One of my biggest pet peeves is throwing away food. I try not to be wasteful, but with bananas it’s really difficult to use them all up before they ripen too much. So, when I discovered that overly ripe bananas are actually the perfect bananas for baking, I was thrilled.
Now anytime we buy bananas and don’t eat them quick enough, banana baking happens. Sometimes it’s banana pancakes, sometimes banana bread, and then these banana chocolate chip muffins happened. And we may never be the same again.
While I do love bananas and using them in baking, some recipes are overly banana flavored and that can grow old to me quickly. So with these muffins, I knew chocolate chips would be the perfect addition. It makes every bite complex enough to come back for another, and another, and another.
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The best part about this recipe is it’s a one bowl, mix everything together in one motion kind of recipe. And those are the best, aren’t they? The thing with baking is it’s easy to over complicate it. Sometimes it really is necessary to add the dry ingredients slowly to the wet ingredients, but with this recipe, it’s as easy as making muffins from a box mix. Dump all the ingredients in, mix and enjoy.
