Banana Nutella Muffins

My kids come home from school EXTREMELY hungry, so I try to have a snack ready for them when they get home.  These muffins (or cupcakes as my youngest likes to call them) are perfect sweet treat for them

Ingredients:

• 2 Large Bananas- Mashed
• 1 1/2 Cups Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 Cup Applesauce
• 1/4 Cup Sugar
• 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/8 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 1/2 teapoon Cinnamon
• About 1/2 Cup Nutella
• 2 Eggs

I made 12 Regular Muffins and 10 Mini Muffins

Preheat oven to 350.  In a large bowl combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon.  In a separate bowl cream together mashed bananas, applesauce, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, and eggs.  Add that to the flour mixture and beat until just combined.  Scoop batter into full size muffin tins until about 1/2 full.

  Then place a SMALL dollop of Nutella on top.  Place another scoop of muffin batter on top of Nutella.

 Bake for 11-12 minutes.

**for mini muffins I just filled them about 2/3 of the way full and placed a small dollop of Nutella on top of batter.  I baked them for 8 minutes.

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Clean Banana Bread

I have been using the same banana bread recipe for several years.  It is a family favorite so I was very hesitant to try anything different.  Every time I make it I think about subbing in different ingredients to try to make it healthier.  I had a couple of very ripe bananas, so today is the day!  I could have started simple and just traded out the oil for applesauce, but instead I decided to really overhaul it!  This recipe has no sugar and no oil and uses whole wheat flour instead of all purpose flour.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 (depending on size) Bananas- mashed
• 3/4 Cup Honey
• 2 Eggs
• 2 Cups of Whole Wheat Flour
• 3/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 Cup of Sugar Free Apple Sauce

Makes one loaf

Preheat the oven to 350.  In a large bowl combine flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda.  In a medium bowl beat 2 eggs.  To the eggs add the applesauce and honey.  Stir until combined. Add the mashed bananas and gently stir.   Then pour the batter into a lightly greased loaf pan.  Bake for 55-60 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.  Let bread sit in pan for 10 minutes then flip the pan over to remove the bread and let it cool on a wire rack.