Banana Chip 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

  (can substitute whole milk)
• 1/3 cup canola oil

  or avocado oil
• 1 cup ripe bananas

  mashed
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 cup miniature chocolate chips

  (semi-sweet)

Instructions

• 1 Spray 16 regular-sized 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 chocolate chips.
• 9 Stir just to combine.
• 10 Do not overmix the batter.
• 11 Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins about three-fourths full.
• 12 Bake at 400° for about 18 minutes, 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. 

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