Due to the death blizzard of '09 brewing outside, my classes have been canceled (oh dangit) and I've been cooped up in the house with little to do but clean and bake.
Homework and Master's project? What homework and Master's project?
With my new found boredom I decided to test my culinary skills and create a decadent, delicious masterpiece. Ok, not really. It was time to go through my disgusting fridge, but I got side tracked by some black, oozing bananas that either needed to be used or pitched.
Since I absolutely hate wasting food--a new obsession consciously created from a meager teaching assistant's salary--I decided to make a dish out of the aged fruit.
Being both poor and lazy, muffins are my favorite thing to eat on the run. AND they are super healthy. IF you make them the right way. In this recipe, these bad boys are made from 100% whole wheat and they are only 100 calories. They are also very high in fiber and potassium. Check this out for some cool info on bananas and even more reasons to make these muffins.
Enjoy!
Banana Applesauce muffins
Ingredients:
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 1/2 cups of unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup of Sugar Twin brown sugar (Slenda brown sugar will work too)
- 3/4 tsp of baking soda
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp of nutmeg
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 2 cups of whole wheat flour
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium sized bowl, mash banana with a fork.
- Stir in all dry ingredients (except flour) until everything is incorporated.
- Gently stir or beat flour into mixture.
- After mixture is smooth, spoon the batter into greased muffin pan.
- Place in oven and cook for 30-40 minutes.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then let it completely cool on a wire rack.
Nutritional Information per serving (12 total):
Calories: 100
Fat: 0.5g
Sat fat 0.1 g
Poly fat 0.0g
Mono fat 0.1g
Cholesterol 0.0 g
Sodium 178.3 mg
Potassium 79.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate 22.7g
Dietary Fiber 3.5 g
Sugars 4.5 g
Protein 2.9 g
Vit A 0.3 %
Vitamin B-12 0.0%
Vit B-6 5.7%
Vit C 28%
Weight watchers points: 1pt
And I'm not sure this is a good thing to attest to the taste of these muffins, but if you don't like them surely your cat will as evidenced by my devil cat that was caught in the act eating one.
This cat is free to good home. Or bad. It doesn't really make a difference. He makes a great taste tester!
Ferguson aka Devil Cat
