Banana Bakery Style Jumbo Muffins plus some mini's

     I don't know why I do it to myself, but I do every single time that I see those 99cent bags of bananas sitting on the reduced price produce racks. This time though I only bought one bag - one bag that was stuffed full with bananas. Some of them are still green and some are prefect to eat - if you eat them all the same day you brought them home. I bring those babies home and sit them on my counter and then forget about them, a few get eaten, but the ones with the large brown spots don't. Then the next time I look at them they are all at the very very ripe stage and a few fruit flies are flying around. And I have to make the choice do I chuck them or bake something. And you all know that I hate hate hate with all my heart throwing out food. So I bake, and I bake until all those bananas are gone. And just like other recipes I never stick to the same banana bread/muffin/cookie recipe ever, I'm still on the hunt for the prefect one. That, and sometime I have sour cream in the fridge, or yogurt, or not enough eggs so I have to search for a recipe that includes the ingredients that I do have.

     While at Giant Tiger the other day, they had muffin pans and cookie sheets on sale. I bought a muffin pan - not just any muffin boring pan - a jumbo cup muffin pan. I should have bought two pants, since they only have 6 cups per pan. Now I proudly own regular size muffin pans, mini sized muffin pans, and one jumbo muffin sized pan!!

     Then I took to Pinterest and searched for a jumbo banana muffin recipe, and I found one that looked good and had all the ingredients I currently had in my house. The only thing I meant to do was toss in some handfuls of chocolate chips into the batter but I forgot. This recipe comes from Jamie's Recipes - Jumbo Bakery Style Muffins which would work, with a couple of my own changes. I used regular 2% milk with a couple squirts of lemon juice added to it instead of buttermilk, and just let it sit for a couple minutes to do it's thing. I also left out the walnuts - because we're nut free here! And I used 3 large banana's instead of the medium sized ones. The recipe says that it makes 6 muffins - my pan has 6 wells, and I filled them up to the top and slightly more, and I still had some batter left over - and NO I didn't throw it out. I pulled out a mini muffin pan, and filled up 9 of the cups, and put 2 chocolate chips on the tops. I did have to add maybe 10 minutes to the baking time for the jumbo muffins, and 5 for the mini muffins.

     These muffins lived up to their name - they are jumbo, heavy suckers, with a very mild banana taste. I like a more powerful banana taste for my muffins though. The kid's ate up all the mini muffins first them moved on to the jumbo one's which they ate up - I think there are 2 muffins left.

     I'm giving this a rating of 3 stars because of the mild banana taste, and that while these muffins were nice and huge they were very heavy.

Rating:
***/5

Jumbo Banana Muffins

Nice and tall

Mini "Jumbo" Banana Muffins

Time for a close up