Banana Orange Muffins

Banana Orange Muffins wasn’t at all what I intended to make today. I was going to make my Pecan Muffins (with lots of fruit) but I didn’t have most of the ingredients. Now, I never run out of cinnamon as I always try to have backups of everything. You know, put the item on the grocery list before you actually run out. But here I was even out of cinnamon.

About that time, my husband walked into the kitchen and said, “What are you doing?”  I said, “I don’t really know!”

I said, “I was planning to make some Mango Muffins, but the fresh mango I had wasn’t ripe enough or sweet enough. And the two cans of mango I had in the pantry tasted horrible. I ended up throwing both cans away.”

So I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing.” He laughed and continued walking through the kitchen to the other room.

Well, I didn’t actually throw the canned mango away. I save food scraps for my son’s compost, so they went in to the food scrap bag. But here I was trying to determine what kind of muffins to make.

So I looked around to see what I had. One very ripe banana and a lovely looking orange in my fruit bowl. So I started with those two items. And that’s what I came up with:  Banana Orange Muffins and I added lots of pecans.

They go together fairly quickly once you have all of your ingredients and utensils gathered.

I think the cinnamon would have added a nice touch though. So keep that in mind if you make these. I think I would add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon next go-around.

I only made a small batch (12) in case they didn’t turn out or just in case I didn’t like them. But they did turn out just fine, thank you, and I’m taking them to my volunteer group Monday morning. Now, though, I wish I had more, because I will take this entire batch of 11, that’s minus the one I ate already, so now I don’t have any for home. But hey! I can always do another batch tomorrow.

Caveat: These are not real sweet, so if you like sweet-sweet, add more sugar.

Give them a try!