Banana Muffins

As you know I love bananas, I tend to have one everyday for lunch or for a snack at work. I know that not everyone agrees but I really like my bananas on the greener side so when they start to turn yellow with lots of spots and smell ripe I don't want to have it at lunch but I will cook with it. Most of the time I only have one or two bananas left over so I pop them in the freezer until I have enough to bake something. Just a hint on freezing your bananas they tend to be just a little watery when they come out of the freezer, I just peel them over a bowl and toss everything in there. I know I have shared a Banana bread recipe with you but today I thought that I would share my muffin recipe.

I love these muffins because they have lots of oatmeal in them so they are good for a pre or post race snack when you are going to run. I also find that they are pretty filling. I tend to bake these and once they are cool pop them into the freezer in a ziploc baggie. This gives them a fresh from the oven taste when you warm them in the microwave (for about a minute for 2). I cannot stand stale muffins so this is a good way to prevent that.

Banana Muffins

1/4 c butter (or margarine)
1/2 c brown sugar
1 egg
1 c oatmeal
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 c mashed bananas (about 3-4)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c flour
2 tsp baking powder

1- Cream butter and sugar until light
2- Add egg and mix well
3- Add cereal, bananas, and vanilla stir to combine
4- Mix the remaining dry ingredients in a separate bowl, add to the wet ingredients in parts and stir until moist.
5- Grease the muffin tins (I opt for liners, less cleanup) or a loaf pan
6- Bake muffins for 25 minutes and a loaf for 1 hour at 350

If you have been reading this blog for a while you might have caught this post about having weevils in my flour. In that post I mentioned that I made oat flour. Should you want to do that what I did was for a double batch I put 3 cups of oats in the blender and blended until smooth (it looked like flour) and then tossed it into the mix. I didn't remeasure the oat flour, I was afraid that they would be rocks if I added a full 3 cups of oat flour. I found that these were just the right about of moist and tasted just fine. I haven't tried it again since that day but on the off chance you can't have flour this should work for you.


I try to keep these on hand for those mornings when you are running late and just want to grab something and have to eat it in the car. I think I have also taken these to fun parties and they tend to be a hit. I am not too sure where this recipe originated, I think it is from a cookbook that my mom has but I know that I got it from her. Let me know if you try these, I love them.