Sarah's Banana Bread Muffins

I have a bad habit of buying bananas but not eating them fast enough.  Part of the problem is that right now I sometimes crave bananas, but they give me a little bit of heartburn, so then I regret eating them. 

Since I had some bananas ripening very quickly on my counter, I decided to make some banana muffins.  Going on to Allrecipes.com, I chose to make Sarah's Banana Bread Muffins.  I chose this recipe because I love banana bread and I wanted my muffins to taste the same.  I also wanted them to be somewhat healthy, but I chose to follow the recipe as written (this time), so I don't know how healthy this recipe really is.

I decided to go ahead and mix up the batter by hand.  Since this recipe called for oil instead of butter, the ingredients mixed together nicely with a wire whisk.

Three mashed bananas.  My bowl almost wasn't big enough.

All the ingredients mixed together.  This recipe actually called for mixing the dry ingredients in until the batter is smooth instead of just until moistened.  The muffins came out moist, so it appears that overmixing is not a danger with this recipe.

Often when I make muffins, I have trouble filling all twelve cups.  For this recipe, there is plenty of batter and I had to fill the cups nearly to the top. 

Perhaps my biggest complaint about this recipe is that the ingredients are not written in the order that the baker needs to use them.  I did not like having to search the list to discover how much of each ingredient I needed to add.

The muffins are delicious, and they do taste like banana bread.  Next time I make these muffins, I plan to use some whole wheat flour and I might even experiment with using some brown sugar instead of using all white sugar. 

You may be asking why didn't I just make some banana bread if that is what I wanted instead of muffins.  I prefer to make muffins because they are easier to freeze so I do not feel like I have to eat an entire loaf of bread in a short amount of time before it goes bad.  Also, I like the convenience of having the bread already made in single serving sizes.