What to do with brown bananas? Buy some more...

Recently I have been staring at my last banana, which is too brown to eat, but perfect for banana bread...

I was shopping at Randall's Farm today... which I love!

I found reduced bananas.  They were $0.79 for all of these!  and look how perfect they are...

So I came home and decided to make banana bread... muffins

I don't like how the bread takes so long to make, and the pan is harder to clean.  So I went with muffin tins with cupcake foils in them.  I did spray them quickly with baking spray so they wouldn't stick.  The great think about this recipe is ONE BOWL!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Then start by adding 3 or 4 bananas to the bowl.  I like it to be really banana-y, so I added 4.

You can mash them with a fork, or just squish them with the back of your wooden spoon.  Then melt 1/3 cup of butter...

and add it to the bananas...

Next you will need to add one cup of sugar, one egg, and one teaspoon of vanilla (very easy to remember).

After those are mixed in sprinkle a pinch of salt, and one teaspoon of baking powder on top, and mix in.

Finally, add 1.5 cups of flour to the mix.  I used 1 cup of all purpose flour and 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour.  I know, with all the butter and sugar, who wants to be healthy now.  But I actually like the taste of it.  How you make your's is up to you.  Now is also a good time to sprinkle in some ground flax seed if you like.

Then spoon the batter into your muffin tins.  As you can see I do it with a mini ice cream scoop.  I LOVE this scoop.  I use it for cookies, cupcakes, muffins, etc.  It helps me make them all the same size, and therefore cooked equally.  I used 2 scoops with this, and it filled them about 3/4 of the way up.  Perfect.

Now, bake for about 20-25 minutes, depending on your oven (and how much you filled your muffin tins).  I checked them after 20 minutes and they were just right.

Now go make your own, because Jared and I are not sharing ;)