Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

It’s no secret that baking with ripe bananas is a great addition to your dessert. They are full of flavour, good for you and allows you to cut on the the sugar because of its sweetness. Baking any treat with bananas has become a tradition with my daughter and I. When I mention we are baking, she automatically looks for the masher and preps herself onto the table waiting for me to bring her bananas to mash. I must say over the last year she has become quite the professional masher.

Ripe bananas are naturally sweet, which means I add a lot less sugar into the batter. The riper they are the more flavour they will add to your dessert. I usually make my chocolate banana cake, which is a big hit with the kids, however with all that is going on in our world, I am always thinking of things I can make and freeze for a later time. I come from a home that was always about meal prepping, even when it came to desserts. My mother always made cookie batches, froze them and once company arrived unexpectedly she had something she could defrost in no time.

If you are a mom to a young toddler, baking with bananas is always a great place to start with them. There’s something about mashing the bananas and then playing with the chocolate chips that they seem to love to do. If your toddler is adventurous enough (mine wouldn’t dare), they can mash the bananas with their hands.

Try out this recipe, I promise you won’t be disappointed.