Mint Chocolate Fudge Muffins

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 tsp. sea salt
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup half-and-half

  or whole milk (but half-and-half is richer)
• 1/3 cup canola oil

  or avocado oil
• 1 cup bananas

  mashed (about 3 medium bananas)
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 10 oz. bag mint chocolate fudge baking chunks

  or Andes Mints (I purchase these at Walmart)

Instructions

• 1 Spray 16 regular-sized muffin tins or 40 miniature muffin tins with cooking
  spray; set aside.
• 2 Preheat oven to 400°.
• 3 Mash bananas on a plate with a fork; set aside.
• 4 In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and
  salt. 
• 5 Set aside.
• 6 In a medium mixing bowl, combine egg, half-and-half, oil, banana and applesauce.
• 7 Whisk until well combined and the banana is broken up into very tiny pieces.
• 8 Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients along with mint fudge-flavored baking
  chunks.
• 9 Stir just to combine.
• 10 Do not overmix the batter.
• 11 Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins between three-fourths and completely
  full.
• 12 Bake at 400° for about 18 minutes for regular sized muffins or 10-12 minutes for
  miniature muffins or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 13 Cool muffins in pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool
  completely.
• 14 Yield: 16 regular-sized muffins or 40 miniature muffins.

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