brunch, anyone?

you can tell i'm a true crafter, because it's been a gorgeous weekend, and i've been inside creating things!  lol!

yesterday, we had homemade pancakes and fresh-squeezed orange juice for breakfast, while entertaining our nieces.  today i decided i'd use up some of the bananas and applesauce laying about my kitchen in some muffins.  i tweaked a recipe i got from a google search (from sotastysoyummy.blogspot.com).  here's my version-- yum!

banana applesauce oat muffins

ingredients:

2 mashed ripe bananas

1 1/2 cups applesauce

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour (or 2/3 cup whitle/1/3 cup whole wheat flour-- i was out of wheat)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup quick-cooking oats

directions:

preheat oven to 35o degrees and grease a muffin pan or line with 12 muffin cups.

in a large bowl, combine banana, applesauce, egg, vanilla extract, and brown sugar.  in a small bowl, stir together the dry if the ingredients.  gently stir the flour mixture into the banana mixture.

fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter and bake till golden brown, approximately 25 minutes.  remove muffins from pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

makes 12 muffins.

i guess i'll take advantage of this early spring weather and go out walking with the family, but then it's back inside-- i've got some earrings to make today!

rhonda :)