Sunday, August 30, 2015

Chocolate Brownie Chunk Banana Muffins

Muffins are just the best. They're like cupcakes. Actually, what is the difference between a muffin and a cupcake? Isn't a cupcake just cake in muffin form? So technically a muffin is a category of sorts, and cupcakes fall within it. Kind of like how a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square. A cupcake is a muffin, but a muffin is not a cupcake. Am I making sense? I don't think I am. Oh, well. All I know for sure is that these muffins are GEWD and you should bake some!






Ingredients: (Makes 12 muffins)
  • 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup vanilla or plain Greek yogurt
  • 2 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 2 tbsp sugar free maple syrup
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 chocolate brownie Questbar, broken into pieces
  • Chocolate chips 

Directions:
  1. Preheat the oven to 375F.
  2. Pour oats into a food processor and grind into a flour (keep in food processor).
  3. In a small-medium bowl, combine banana, Greek yogurt, eggs, honey, and syrup. Mix until mostly smooth (banana may be difficult to completely mash) and creamy.
  4. Add cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda to the food processor. Pulse a few times to mix the dry ingredients. 
  5. Pour dry ingredients from the processor into a medium-large bowl. Add wet ingredients to the bowl and stir until mixture is homogenous. 
  6. Break up the Questbar and add the pieces to the bowl. Fold them into the batter until evenly distributed. 
  7. Line a muffin tin with paper cups (I recommend doubling the paper cups) or coat the muffin tin with cooking spray. Pour batter into the tin, filling each cup as evenly as possible. You may need to stir the batter occasionally while filling to redistribute the Questbar pieces (they tend to sink to the bottom, leaving some of the muffins without and brownie chunks). 
  8. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of each muffin.
  9. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a knife/toothpick comes out clean when poked inside the muffins.
  10. Let cool for 15 minutes before removing from tin and onto a plate (or into your mouth!)

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