Best Ever Banana Bread Muffins

This recipe for Banana Bread Muffins has lingered so long. I look at the original picture of my son and wonder if he really ever was so small. Still has a winning smile. And yes, they (my two monkeys) love banana bread in any form. These muffins are really banana bread in a portable form. They are quite perfect for cold weather baking and snacking. Made with brown sugar and whole wheat flour, they have a nice dark brown appearance. If you have some bananas bake a batch. The original post is from November 11, 2011, almost 10 years ago.

My Banana Bread Muffin Story

Original Post November 13, 2011

Today wraps up Aadi’s first soccer season. It is interesting to watch him run to the field, join his friends and chase the ball without tentatively looking back.  He had done the first few sessions when we had started playing with him. I watched the game, with a little bit of pensive reflection.

I am not sure if I am unique in this, but I am always a little sad as I watch the kids finish another milestone, the sadness is lesser in proportion to the happiness, but the sadness nonetheless is always an acknowledgement that they are growing up, just a little faster than I would like. And me, it just takes an old album to get me misty eyed.

Aadi of course, is so full of love and loads and loads of affection. it is really a haunting thought when I know he will grow up and lose this childish bundle of affection.

Milestones with children are often big or small.  Today’s soccer milestone is really less about the game. It is about the confidence he has gained over a few weeks. Starting out not wanting me to leave during the practice sessions to through without looking back.

The other summer activity both the kids have learned is learning to through items into our compost basket. This has had the unexpected consequence of me never having bananas left to make banana bread, something we all love, since the moment the banana turns brown my little helpers are quick to dispose them, they happily inform me that they are, “saving the earth”.

Now I have a safe spot for my browning bananas. These Best Ever Banana Bread muffins are for the little team adapted from this recipe for Best Ever Banana Bread. My son’s advice to add chocolate chips made them a hit with the youngsters. They do taste good (in my opinion, better) without the chips. So it is up to you whether you want to use them. Much like my chocolate chip banana bread.

I have now learned to move the browning bananas away to a safe spot if I plan to save them. I adapted the recipe for the Best Ever Banana Bread, a recipe from Suvir’s blog that I had bookmarked a while back to make the Best Ever Banana Bread muffins for the little team, following my son’s advice to add chocolate chips made them quite a hit with the youngsters. They do taste good (in my opinion, better) without the chips, so it is up to you whether you want to use them. They make either 12 regular sized muffins or a standard sized loaf.