Ingredients
- 3 cups almont flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 4 large eggs, room temperature (I prefer brown eggs, but any will do)
- 2 very ripe bananas, mashed (I know a little boy who's GREAT at mashing bananas!)
- 3 tsp. vanilla
- 3 tsp. cinnamon
- *optional walnuts, about 1/4 cup or so to your liking
How to Do It
First, preheat your oven to 350`. While it's heating up, start mixing your dry ingredients. Combine the almond flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
Then, in a separate bowl, combine the eggs and coconut oil and stir. *If your coconut oil gets a few flecks of hardened oil, just let it sit and stir again. Not a big deal if you have pieces that aren't completely melted in the end. Mix the oil and eggs with the flour combination and stir until well blended. Finally, add in the mashed bananas, vanilla and cinnamon.
*You can also add walnuts if you like, about 1/2 cup is the most you should add without changing the consistency.
Here's where personal preference kicks in. If you want a loaf of bread, pour the batter into a loaf pan that has been rubbed with a little coconut oil and bake for 25-30 minutes.
I like to make mini muffins, greasing a mini muffin pan with a little coconut oil and using a teaspoon to fill each muffin cup about 2/3 full. Keep and eye on these guys as they only take 8-10 minutes and can over cook easily. Check with a toothpick and use the toothpick to lightly loosen the edges so they fall out.
Make sure to refrigerate anything you don't consume the first 5 minutes of pulling them from the oven (ok...not really, but you know you won't be able to keep from eating them when they're still hot enough burn your mouth), Refrigerate when they've cooled and you've eaten enough for the day. In the fridge, these stay good for about a week. Left out, they spoil in about 3 days.
Variations
Should you decide you don't want to use banana, it's simple enough to change it up. For chocolate chip muffins, just add about 2 tsp. of honey and about a 1/4 cup unsweetened natural applesauce and some chocolate chips. Want blueberry? Add 2 tsp. of honey and 1/4 cup unsweetened natural applesauce, and some blueberries. See a pattern/ ;-) If you want to make them with banana and something else, you won't need the honey and applesauce. These give the batter the wet and sugar that the bananas provide. Stewed apples work nicely as well.Hope you enjoy!
