Banana Whole Wheat with Chocolate Chips Muffins

Delicious!  That's what teen has already declared on these muffins baked for a special guy's 5th birthday breakfast in the morning.  And healthy to boot!

Teen recently baked whole wheat french bread for a 4-H nutrition fair last weekend.  So instead of grabbing the regular all-purpose flour, I goggled my favorite site, Allrecipes, for a whole wheat banana muffin recipe.  And then modified it a bit.  I stole a pinch just to insure "quality control"!  YUM is right!

Banana Whole Wheat with Chocolate Chips Muffins (aka Monkey Muffins)

 (for original recipe click HERE)

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup mashed bananas (for me that was grabbing 4 out of the freezer and defrosting in microwave)

1 cup applesauce

3/4 cup Splenda (or sugar or guava)

3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray muffin tins with cooking spray.

Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together.  Blend mashed bananas, applesauce and Splenda.  Blend the flour mixture and banana mixture together.  Mix till blended.  Fold in chocolate chips.

Fill muffin tins 3/4 full - this made 18 muffins for me.  Bake 20-25 minutes in oven.  Enjoy!

 

Edible Cornucopia - Who would have thought!

This is just way too cool! (although I have recently learned "cool" is very "old school" thus putting me in the OLD category).  But it is just WAY TOO COOL!  An Edible decoration.  Duel purposes!  Can it get any better than that?  Oh yeah, a Teen who wishes to make it! Yahoooooo!  Joy Joy!
Paper Plate and Plane is a blog you will get lost in - she is just so neat with her ideas.  If you do nothing else (after looking at this Cornucopia), check out the Candy Corn Harvest Treat Boxes.  Great idea, just great!
So with some butter, whole wheat flour, hot water, salt and dough, you can create an Edible Cornucopia.  Now why would you want to do this?  Well, when you start hearing "Is dinner ready yet?" or "When are we going to eat?"  Just pull out the Edible Cornucopia that you have stuffed with cheese and grapes (perfect for the budget as well), and tell your family to enjoy!  They eat the bread of the cornucopia with the cheese and grapes.  Perfection!  AND they literally eat the plate clean!  Got to love that!