K-1 Cooking Class and Banana Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins with Nutella

Every other Friday I volunteer at Bryce's school to teach cooking to the K-1 class.  As soon as I show up, I'm bombarded with "What are we cooking?!!!" separately asked by every student, numerous times each, on my walk from the playground to the classroom.    I wasn't sure if the recipe I had chosen would be a hit with them or not, but all five of them were extremely excited when they heard we would be baking Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins.  Maybe the fact that chocolate chips were included in the title had something to do with their excitement?  Then when I told them we'd be frosting them with Nutella, they went through the roof!

Here's what you need:

The kids really enjoyed mashing the bananas and there were plenty to mash....three of them for this recipe!  Healthy right?

If I were making these at home, I wouldn't have used the pan liners but I thought the kids would enjoy separating and placing them in the mini muffin pan.

The kids did a great job scooping the thick batter into the muffin pan without getting the batter everywhere.

Fifteen minutes later, we had some yummy muffins to enjoy.

But first, after cooling, we frosted with Nutella.  Oh how I love Nutella! 

Unfortunately I forgot to bring my Canon Rebel with me and all I had was my point and shoot....what a difference a camera makes ......next time I'll try to remember the Canon with my macro lens attached.

Enjoy!

I am going to need to make another batch of these at home....one muffin was NOT enough.  As I'm writing this post and looking at the photos, I'm totally craving them!

Here's the quick and easy recipe:

Banana Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins


Ingredients:
• 1 ½ cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 3 large bananas, mashed
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• ¾ cup chocolate chips


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat muffin pan with non-stick spray or use paper liners. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.

Combine bananas, sugar, egg, melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture and mix until smooth. Scoop into muffin pans.

Bake mini muffins for 10-15 minutes and large muffins for 25-30 minutes. Muffins will spring back when lightly tapped.

Frost with Nutella if desired!

Happy Saturday!
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Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins for Fall

With fall, comes one of my very favorite flavors....pumpkin.  Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin custards, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin ice cream....not to get side-tracked but have you ever tasted pumpkin ice cream?  It is now one of my favorite flavors.  Ever since finding it at Safeway by accident  over near their gelato counter, I love it.  I don't shop at Safeway all that often, maybe three times a month or so, but when I was at a brand new Safeway in our town, I found this creamy pumpkin ice cream in a pint container over in the deli section near the gelato bar.  I think I ate the entire thing all myself.  I would actually try to eat it when the kids weren't around because I didn't want to share!  Isn't that just horrible!  But it is that good.

So, I was craving pumpkin.  I came up with these little, mini muffins of joy.

Here's what you need....

Whisk the sugar, salt, oil, eggs and water all together.

So it looks like this.....

Add the remaining ingredients {see below for recipe}.

Fill a mini muffin baking tray with the batter.

Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.

Enjoy!

Okay, here's the recipe:

Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup canola oil
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup canned pumpkin
3/4 cup chocolate chips {or nuts}

Mix sugar, salt, oil, eggs, water all together in a bowl.  Then add spices, baking soda, flour , pumpkin and chocolate chips.  Grease a mini-muffin pan with Pam, fill with batter and bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.  These can be made ahead of time if you're having a party and frozen until you're ready to serve them.

Happy Saturday!

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