The Hangry Hillbilly

Ahhhh bananas, I love 'em! Not only are they good for you, they work great as an egg replacer, they travel well, they are a great ready to eat snack and they taste AWESOME! I use bananas a lot...banana bread, banana waffles, bananas in my green smoothie, peanut butter and banana sandwich, you get the idea. I love me some bananas! I baked and ate a lot of banana muffins to come up with this recipe and I'm pretty happy with it. The streusel topping makes all the difference so don't skip it! I change the topping up depending on what I have in my pantry. Today I used sliced almonds in the streusel topping but last time I used pecans so be creative but add some nuts. Nuts give the topping a nice crunch and texture.  You could make this as a loaf of banana bread but nothing beats a handy-dandy-easy-to-eat muffin.  Enjoy!

 

Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins with Streusel Topping

1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c white sugar
1/4 c canola oil
1/4 c applesauce
3 very ripe bananas
vegan chocolate chips
1 c whole wheat pastry flour
1 c all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 c vanilla soy milk  plus 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp allspice
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

Streusel Topping
1/3 c regular uncooked oats
1/3 c flour
1/3 c light brown sugar
3 T vegan margarine
1/3 c nuts of your choice

Get Cookin'

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, allspice, and cinnamon. Set aside.

Add the apple cider vinegar to the soy milk and set aside.

Cream together the oil, applesauce and sugars. Add the mashed bananas, soy milk and vanilla. Mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix well but do not over mix. Fold in chocolate chips.

Make streusel topping by mixing all dry streusel ingredients together, then cut in the margarine with a pastry tool or just use a fork (like I do) until mixture is crumbly.

Spoon muffin mixture into muffin pan with liners. Fill about 3/4 full then top with struesel topping. These muffins don't rise a whole lot so don't worry if the muffin cups are almost full.



Bake for 30-35 minutes. Cool and Enjoy!







All done!