Alyssa: Steam Whistle Banana Muffins

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What you’ll need…

3 bananas (ripe, mashed)

2/3 cup jam (I used up my cheat jam from last week)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 TSP cinnamon

1/2 TSP vanilla

1 1/2 TSP honey

1 cup Steam Whistle Pilsner

2 cups flour (I used whole wheat, I would recommend either 1 cup unbleached and 1 cup whole wheat or just 2 cups of unbleached)

1 TSP baking powder

My morning class had been cancelled for the day (YES!) and Say Yes to the Dress wasn’t on TLC, so I thought I better do my KTKD homework all before my 1 p.m. Geology class.

Start time: 10:45 a.m.

So I mashed up my 3 bananas with a fork, mixed in the jam, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, honey, and beer. Then, I combined the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and added the liquid mixture to it, mixed it all up, sprayed my muffin tray with Pam and spooned in the batter.

I had a bit of beer left over, so I downed that, then did the dishes. By the time I finished brushing my teeth and straightening my hair the muffins were ready. I ate one, which was still quite warm, but I liked it. It wasn’t too sweet and the edges were nice and crunchy and the jam was a lovely addition, especially with the whole blueberries in there.

When I took another look at the muffins, I noticed they were quite flat…and the only things that I could think of was either the heaviness of the Whole Wheat flour or that I needed more baking powder. Does anyone know? Now I’m worried they’ll be hard as rocks once they cool.

Yields 15 muffins

Total cook time…1 hour

Follow-up: I just ate another one after they had more of a chance to cool down, and hooray! They still taste good and aren’t as hard as a rock.

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