I've been enjoying some muffins we bought at Costco--the ones that are pretty much big enough to feed a small village. They're so sweet and moist that they don't even need butter, which is probably because they're loaded with butter inside...which made me think that maybe I could create a healthier muffin that I would like just as much. Besides, normal human-being sized muffins as opposed to muffins big enough to feed Fezzig and Inigo Montoya seem much more approachable. It's much more satisfying to eat all of a regular muffin than only part of a big muffin for some reason.
These muffins are attempt #1, and they were sadly unsuccessful. I started with a recipe for "Lighter Banana Muffins" that I found on allrecipes.com. The recipe called for no butter or oil--the moisture and fat were provided by water, eggs, and the bananas themselves. I read a couple of the reviews, which said that the muffins came out dry, so I added 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce, 1 tsp vanilla, and 1/2 cup chopped bits of strawberry, thinking ooh--strawberry banana muffins, that sounds good.
So first of all, the strawberries were a big mistake, the bits left open spaces that were all mushy as the strawberries baked and shrunk. But besides that, the muffins were really, really, REALLY, chewy, and they stuck to the papers really badly. Maybe I added too much liquid? I'm not quite sure. They taste pretty good, but the consistency is so odd that I just couldn't get over it. I will give them this though---they look really pretty! I got some great pictures, so I decided to go ahead and post about them and begin my challenge: to find a delicious, beautiful, and healthy muffin. I'm not going to include the recipe for these, because they weren't worth it--but I'll keep you posted if I find a good one! Allons-y!
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