Banana Spice Muffins

These muffins are pleasantly spicy, not too sweet, and best with coffee or tea. They make a nice breakfast treat or snack.

Wet Ingredients
1/4 cup butter or coconut oil, melted
2-3 ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup or a little more)
2 Tbsp molasses
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla (rum or coffee extract would work well too)
1 egg

Dry Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
pinch ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chopped walnuts, raisins, or chocolate chips (optional)


Heat oven to 350 and grease 12 cup muffin tin.

In a large bowl whisk butter, bananas, molasses, sugar, vanilla, and egg until well blended.

Whisk flour, soda, spices, and salt together in a small bowl.

Use a spatula to gently fold flour into the wet ingredients in the large bowl just until combined. Add walnuts or raisins if using. Don't over mix, some lumps are fine.

Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin tin. Bake for 20 minutes or until a knife inserted into a muffin comes out clean. Remove from muffin tin when cool enough to touch.

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