Banana Muffins

Here is a good recipe to use up some bananas that are overripe:

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten

5 average sized bananas mashed

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 teaspoon cinnamon (or more to taste)

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ginger

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.

In a seperate bowl mix butter and brown sugar until creamy and there are no lumps. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture; stir by hand until flour is mixed in (do not overstir the batter by using a blender or the texture of the muffins will be lost).

Put the batter into a greased muffin pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool 2-3 minutes before removing from pan, and finish cooling on wire rack.

Optional:

For a crunchy topping, mix 3 tablespoons brown sugar with 1 tablespoon water and spread on tops of muffins about 10 minutes before they are done. You may need to make more topping mix depending on how much you want on top.

This recipe makes aprox. 15 muffins