Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These muffins are super good! Beck even ate one! He says that he hates bananas, but I guess chocolate chips trump banana.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Recipe makes about 1 dozen muffins.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) melted butter
• 1/3 cup buttermilk (sub regular milk and add 2 drops lemon juice, stir)
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 ripe banana
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Recipe:

• sift all dry ingredients together (flour, sugars, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder and soda, and salt)
• Add melted butter, buttermilk, egg and extracts. Beat for 1 minute
• mix in ripe banana
• fold in chocolate chips

Line muffin tin with paper cup and fill with mixture

Bake at 300 degrees for about 30 minutes

Check for doneness with toothpick

I ate my warm muffin with a glass of sparkling almond wine from Trader Joe's. Not sure which I liked better, but I highly recommend both! Cheers.