Chocolate Banana Muffins

Yet another muffin recipe.... I think the reason I love muffins so much is because I sure love waffles and pancakes for breakfast, but If you have left overs they really aren't as good the next couple days. Muffins on the other hand stay good for almost a week AND freeze beautifully :) They are also great on the go! 

I have seen a ton of chocolate chip banana recipes and I have made my fair share. I however have not seen a lot of chocolate banana muffin recipes. I love cocoa powder and all you can do with it! 

Healthy ways to use cocoa powder

Benefits to cocoa powder

This is a great recipe for using cocoa powder, chocolate, and bananas :). I used a little less oil and added my apple butter! I  didn't even add the chocolate chips but I'm sure the added chips are delish! 

Enjoy

Chocolate Banana Muffins

Spinach Walnut and Pancetta Pasta

Oh how this pasta reminds me of Italy :) Simple, elegant, and utterly delicous. Please go make this pasta now, and top it with lots of parmesan cheese!!

Spinach Walnut Pancetta Pasta

don't have pancetta? Use bacon!

Also if this link comes up in French, just scroll down and press in English!

Pumpkin

So grocery shopping happened last week. I go down EVERY aisle because I have to look at every single new product...even though I'd never buy it ;) but it gives me great idea's to make my own delicious creations!

ANYWAYS I am rollin down the baking aisle and stop at the pumpkin. I got so excited because I realized I hadn't had pumpkin since Thanksgiving! Who says we should only have pumpkin flavored things around holidays anyways??? It has a wonderful flavor, you can do SO much with it and extremely healthy to boost! 

I was looking through my saved recipes and came across some great pumpkin recipes check it out Here!

The picture I took and the recipe I am posting today are these pumpkin oat muffins (I bet you guys can tell I am a LITTLE obsessed with healthy muffins). These muffins are moist, filling, light, and fluffy! Pumpkin is one of those ingredients (as well as bananas) you can mix into breads and cakes and it becomes extremely moist without adding a bunch of oil! :) I followed this recipe pretty much exactly as is expect I subbed in 1/4 cup apple butter for the oil and did a little less then a 1/2 cup of sugar. Look at this article, it's a great read if you want to try and substitute things, you have to be carful! 

Baking Alterations Rules

Pumpkin muffins

I'm headed to Chicago this weekend for one of my best friends Bach parties...It should be a good one! :) 

Enjoy yours!

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

Man the past couple months or so have been crazy! I've been totally slacking on the blog posts....I guess that'll happen when you are trying to plan your ENTIRE wedding that is happening in four months by the way!

I had one the most memorable weekends of my life this past weekend, I drove all the way out to Ohio with my good friend/bridesmaid to celebrate my bridal shower! :) My maid of honor/best friend/child hood friend since kindergarden threw it for me and I couldn't of asked for a better party! She surprised me by having everyone make something from this blog. I must say the stuff they made came out delicious!!  That is the whole point of this blog, so people can find easy delicious/healthy food to cook for others!! I'm still beaming :) I'm not sure how many people read this blog but I sure love writing in it!

ANYWAYS....on to these muffins. A couple weeks ago we had a memorial day party and WAY to many strawberries were purchased. What to do with extra strawberries I asked myself??? Well first I tried out the lemon blueberry jam with strawberries instead of blueberries and it turned out fantastic. I still had strawberries left so I googled some recipes and this muffin recipe popped up! I really do love making muffins that are not loaded with sugar and calories yet still are extremely tasty and healthy all at the same time. It just proves over and over again you can still have things that are labeled "bad for you", one just must put a little more time and effort into it. 

These muffins are a great breakfast or afternoon snack. They also aren't too sweet you feel like you will go into a sugar coma! The recipe calls for applesauce but I used organic apple butter and it still turned out great! I also wanted a little fat in them so I subbed a quarter of the applesauce for coconut oil.  Either way if you use the oil or not these muffins are fantastic. Now get baking ;)

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins