Mmmmmmmmmuffins!

Ingredients

• 3 Ripe bananas, smashed, mashed and otherwise pulverized. (I use my tiny potato smasher)
• 2 medium apples, peeled, fine chopped (but don't do it early or they go all brown and gross... lousy oxygen)
• 1/3 c. Melted butter/margarine 
• 1 c. Sugar
• 1 Egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (I stick my butter/margarine in a glass jar to melt while the oven is heating)
2. Mash bananas (be thorough, it's therapeutic! :D)
3. In a large bowl: mix melted butter into bananas
4. Add sugar, egg and vanilla. Mix well.
5. Stir in baking soda and salt
6. Add flour and stir until blended (I used a whisk, but I'm doing this all by hand)
7. Using a food processor (or by hand) fine chop 2 medium apples (peeled)
8. Stir apples into mixture and add in the cinnamon.
9. Place in muffin pan, filling cups about 2/3 of the way
10. Bake 25 – 30 minutes (in my Japanese microwave oven contraption, I have them in for 45)
11. Cool on rack before storing
12. Makes 12 muffins (I got 18 out of this full recipe) 

Original recipe stolen from here...

I look forward to the day that I can make these in a proper oven, mine go fluffy for a while while they're in the oven, then kinda smoosh down after a while. I will update this page if I ever figure out what to do differently... or maybe it's just the way of my oven-contraption. Maybe baking powder instead of soda? I hear that's the difference between soft and crunchy cookies...

I fully intend to explore using apple sauce as a substitute for butter/margarine... I'll even go so far as to make my own... After all, I am living in Aomori and apples are kinda our thing here... Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a jar? I think that's how it goes... I think I need the weather to get just a little bit colder so I can keep food frozen out on my balcony... my freezer is too tiny...