crunchy banana

As promised – here is the recipe for the crunchy banana muffins.  If it looks like a whole lot of flour, sugar, and butter… well, it’s because this recipe makes a boatload of muffins….  30 anyway, and that’s a bunch from one recipe. Enjoy!

Banana Crunch Muffins

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup melted butter, cooled
2 bananas, mashed
1 banana, chopped
1 cup Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 30 muffin cups with paper liners. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

In a medium bowl, mix together the eggs, milk, vanilla, melted butter, and mashed bananas.

In a third bowl mix together the cereal, walnuts, and coconut.

Stir the butter and egg mixture into the dry mixture until just combined.

Then fold only 2 cups of the cereal mixture (reserve the remaining cup of the cereal mixture) and the chopped banana into the batter.

Spoon into the prepared muffin cups, filling about 3/4 full. Sprinkle the tops of each with the reserved cereal mixture.

Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, switching the pans on the racks halfway through.

Makes 30