Good for You (if you can believe it) Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

This recipe is one of my two year old's favorites... though he tends to pick through and eat all the chocolate chips first and then ask for another muffin - my kind of guy!



Good for You (if you  can believe it) Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Adapted from a recipe on: www.fortheloveoffood.net

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 T. flax seed meal mixed with 3 T. warm water

1/4 cup of vegetable oil

1/4 cup pureed veggie (carrots, sweet potato, or pumpkin)

1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt (preferably low fat, Greek yogurt)

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 large, very ripe bananas

1 cup dark chocolate chips

In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, white sugar and brown sugar until well combined.

In another bowl, mix the flax seed meal, oil, pureed veggie, yogurt, vanilla and mushed bananas until mixed thoroughly.

Slowly combine the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients without over mixing. Add the chocolate chips and fold them into the batter.

Pour batter into muffin papers 3/4 full. 

If freezing, place muffin pan in freezer for 2 hours and then pop muffins into Ziploc baggies for cooking later.  Keep frozen until ready to cook.  Place in a muffin pan and follow directions below adding 5-10 minutes of cooking time.

If serving immediately, bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out clean.