Raspberry Banana Muffins

I go through food phases. Sometimes I’ll only eat breakfast for dinner, sometimes I like oatmeal, sometimes, eggs and sometimes I can’t figure out what I’d like to eat but I know it’s not any of that. So this time I decided to go for muffin. Muffins are these fabulous little versatile things that can taste like anything you want them to. Dessert-like chocolatey muffins, fruit-y muffins, fiber-y muffins. Muffins are awesome.

Look at all that fruit in the batter

A fun muffin story: Summer between 9th and 10th grade my sister and I were in a community theatre production of little shop of horrors. Rehearsal was at 5:00 every day which meant it was too early for dinner… but by the time we got out of rehearsal it’d be 9:00 and we’d be starving. During this time though, my mom was buying those big things of costco muffins all the time. So every day for a full summer my dinner was a giant chocolate chip muffin from Costco. Healthy eating right there.

Yum. Batter

I survived that summer of fantastically healthy eating just like a survived eating Wendy’s for dinner every night the summer before (really, theatre messes up dinner schedules). But now a costco muffin would probably send me into a sugar coma. This muffin however, does no such thing. Filled with banana and raspberry it’s pretty much just a delicious breakfast munchy. Paired with an egg and I’m set until lunch!

Honestly though, these muffins are delicious. I love all forms of banana bread and the raspberry really adds something extra special. The original recipe called for a whole cup of sugar in these things but I cut it down to a half a cup and they still taste great. Plus, I love any recipe that calls for 2 cups of fruit. Except maybe fruit cake…