Banana Muffins With Crunchy Granola Topping

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour (sometimes we use 1/2 whole wheat)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 cups sugar (we use brown sugar)
• 1 cup vegetable oil (we usually use extra virgin olive oil)
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 4 bananas (ripe to over-ripe is better for mashing)
• granola cereal

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees f.
• 2 mix first 7 ingredients in a bowl.
• 3 in another large bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients, besides the bananas.
• 4 mash the bananas (its sometimes easier to mash them in their skins a bit first) then add them to the bowl with the wet ingredients and mix them together.
• 5 add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 3 installments, make sure not to over-mix.
• 6 either grease muffin tin with a paper towel dipped in olive oil or line the muffin tin with paper liners.
• 7 fill the muffin cups about 3/4 the way up.
• 8 crumble granola and add to the top of each muffin, adding as much or as little as you want.
• 9 bake for about 20-25 minutes or untill a toothpick comes out clean.
• 10 enjoy !