Fun with Banana Bread

I have been MIA in blogger land  for the last couple of weeks.  I started my marathon training with gusto- I had the right shoes, I had a plan and some really good music on my ipod. And then the bottom fell out-- I got bronchitis that took me two whole weeks to get over completely and my perfect schedule fell to pieces.  It's been a couple of weeks now and I am finally back in the swing of things, getting my runs in and trying to eat/ cook healthy.  I've been cooking a lot, but just haven't gotten around to uploading all of the pictures.  I have lots to share-- that's for sure.  I wanted to start with  these muffin because they were my solution to mixing up my breakfast routine-- at least the ones without chocolate.   I love peanut butter and honey on toast-- like every single day.  I needed something with a little bit of protein that wasn't toast.  You've seen this recipe before-- it's one of my favorites!



What you need:

• 1 recipe for Banana Bread (minus the walnuts sub 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter)
• Chocolate chips
• Nutella

What you do:

• Preheat your oven to 350 and line two muffin pans with cupcake liners. 
• Make the banana bread like I did here-- the only change is that you add the peanut butter in with the "wet" ingredients (bananas and eggs)
• Bake once you've customized your banana muffins, bake for 15-18 minutes. 

For PB & Banana muffins you're done once you finish the batter.  Fill the cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake.

If you want all  PB, Banana and Chocolate chips, fold in the chocolate chips in to the batter and fill the muffin cups 3/4 full.  Since I made a "variety pack" of muffins, I filled the muffin cup halfway and sprinkled in a few chocolate chips and then added another scoop of batter and a few more chocolate chips.  Like so:

For the PB, Banana and Nutella Muffins fill your cupcake tin three quarters of the way full and then add dollop (very scientific, I know) of Nutella to the each muffin.   Then swirl the Nutella with a toothpick.  Like so:

So that's it. Three types of muffins at once.  I mistakenly made a dozen PB and banana muffins, much to Jamie's chagrin.  I noticed that he was making my lunch that week that I keep getting plain PB& Banana muffins-- the sneaky bastard!  I ended up freezing half of the muffins in a large ziploc bag.  They reheat fine covered with a wet paper towel for 15-20 seconds.