Kids' favorite - Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

It's one of those foods that take no time to make, but - rather unfortunately - take no time to disappear off the table...

Here is the recipe I use all the time:

First get your dry ingredients together in a big bowl:

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar (or less... I usually go with less)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Then get to the other ingredient in a different bowl:

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt (or buttermilk, or sour cream, or applesauce... I've done it all and it works just fine... I know, I know... I am a very undisciplined cook ;))
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix the liquid ingredients well and add them to the flour mixture. I usually just give it a couple of stirs with a spatula and leave it to moisten until I get ready the final set of ingredients:

• 1 cup mashed ripe (overripe even better!) bananas. It's about 2 medium bananas.
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips. I always use miniature ones as I find that the regular sized are too big for my kids and they get super dirty with them (don't get me wrong, they still get dirty, just not super dirty :D).

Ok, now add your banana-choco mixture to the other bowl and mix. They always write in recipes "do not over mix" and I'm always afraid to not over mix but I still don't really know when that is so I just give it a couple more stirs with the spatula and it's ready to go into the muffin pans.

So now you're ready to put your mixture in the pans and off they go into the oven: 375F for about 20 minutes.

This will make about 16 regular sized muffins. I double the ingredients, bake a whole lot of them, leave some (a lot - in my opinion, not enough - in my kids' opinion!) on the table and freeze the rest. Then when we need them, I'll pop them into the microwave for 15 sec (one muffin) and they're just like out of the oven!

Bon appetit!