Banana Choc Chip Muffins

Today I brought the wrong book for class nooooo. Maybe I'll make a copy for today's lessons later. Bleah.

Last weekend's bake: banana choc chip muffins for breakfast. I used the recipe before, this time round I made it a little bit healthier. I reduced the egg from 2 to 1, switched from butter to oil, and I used a bit more bananas. I noticed that the muffins' top became smooth as cupcakes when I left the batter to rest before baking. Nice!

I used:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
6 medium ripe bananas, mashed
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 egg
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease muffin cups or line with muffin papers. I got 17 muffins.
Combine all dry ingredients and chocolate chips in a large bowl and mix well.
Combine bananas, sugar, oil, milk and egg in a medium bowl.
Mix wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl. Do not over-mix!
Divide batter among prepared muffin cups, fill it till 3/4 full.
Bake until muffins are golden brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, for about 25 minutes.

Yummy yum soft fluffy banana cakes. I don't like banana bread recipes cos it's a little dry. This could be the best banana cake recipe thus far.

Junior got a new train track set and he loves it! What he loves more though, is to destroy the tracks hahaha. When will he ever learn to keep things sigh.

We went to the kids educational fair at Expo to survey programmes that Junior can be enrolled in. We found one that I'm really keen on but it's really expensive, so we'll have to give more thought on that. And also another reminder for me to buck up on being a mother!

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