Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
July 12, 2011
This is totally my new favorite recipe! I have very little experience with baking and sweets and that whole universe, so muffins this good are doubly exciting to me. It’s also nice for a change to cook something that doesn’t even pretend to be healthy. A bit about how this began: Over the winter, my cousin Erin made for me a batch of zucchini muffins, and I was amazed how good they were for vegan pastry… all the vegan baking recipes I’d tried had always come out dry, or heavy, or required some weird egg replacer or something. Months later, I finally got my hands on Erin’s awesome recipe and couldn’t resist tinkering. : ) The first thing I tried was a pumpkin spice version, and it was delicious! (I’ll have to post that one on here someday) The recipe held up really well to all my adjustments, so I decided to keep exploring… lots of baking is exact chemistry, and doesn’t tolerate such nonsense. Years ago, before I was vegan, I had some chocolate chip banana bread that my friend Scott’s mom made for everyone, and it blew my mind. It seemed like such an unlikely combination of flavors, but they go perfectly together! That recipe of course was not vegan, or even close, and I had no idea how to go about converting it. The muffin recipe on the other hand turned out to be an excellent way to get chocolate and banana together, and lots of other flavors too as it turns out. This won’t be the last weird combination to come out of this recipe. : )