a cake by another name

Is a muffin. Why am I having such a hard time with my cake resolution?  I do not know. These muffins could have just as easily been made in a cake pan, so I'm calling it good for my April cake. Thank you very much!

I bought a gazillion brown organic bananas at Natural Grocers. When they turn, they bag them up and sell them for a dollar per bag. They do this with all their produce and I buy A LOT of dollar bags! I had about 10 pounds of bananas and I peeled most of them and froze them for smoothies. (I have very exciting smoothie news for you next week involving weeds and a blender!) There were lots that were too mushy for freezing so they had to be dealt with right away. Do we have chocolate chips? Yes we do.

Hello, Whole Wheat and Spelt OSM Banana Chocolate Muffins. God forbid I keep it simple.

But these were easy and very forgiving of all my modifications. Here they are.

Start with lots of bananas. 5 or 6?

The recipe called for two eggs. But Della LOVES to crack eggs. So screw 2, we did 3. Can I tell you my tip for small kids cracking eggs? DO NOT WATCH. Walk away. Let them do it and pick out the shells and carry on. So simple.

Other modifications..... 2 cups ww flour + 1 scant cup spelt and a little all purpose, no cinnamon or nutmeg, no honey (all out, but probably would have left it out anyway cause it's expensive and I'm frugal), more vanilla, more chips, and a scant cup of OSM. (oats, sunflower seeds and millet) This could contain anything actually....nuts, just oats, poppy seeds, sesame seeds. My muffins were huge, in the large size muffin papers, so I cooked them for 43 minutes.

sniff please and wipe your hands on your clothes.

These were very good. Hearty and filling, and just sweet enough. The kids distributed them around to the neighbors as they rode bikes into the twilight and we ate the rest for breakfast. With pickles, for a reason that I can not name.

So go here for the straight forward recipe and enjoy!