Emily's Cooking Blog

Prep Time: 10 Min Cook Time: 25 Min Ready In: 35 Min

Original Recipe Yield 16 servings

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 3/4 cup sugar

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1 egg

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

• 1/2 cup plain yogurt

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas – mash bananas in a small bowl using a fork

• 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips – I will hand you them when you need them in direction #6.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Prepare muffin tins – line muffin tin with paper liners and spray the inside of the paper liner.

3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

4. In another bowl, combine the egg, oil, yogurt and vanilla.

5. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients just until moistened.

6. Fold in bananas and chocolate chips.

7. Fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full.

8. Bake at 350 degrees F for 22-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

9. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Source: All Recipes

Last Wednesday my commercial cooking class made chocolate chip banana muffins. I was expecting this lab to be simple and straight-forward because I often make muffins at home on my own. Something that went well was the preparation of the ingredients. All three group members worked together to get the ingredients we needed for the lab. Something that did not go well was mixing the ingredients together. One of my group members had remembered that we needed to mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl then liquid in another, but did not bother reading the more specific instructions. Our mashed bananas got mixed in with the liquid ingredients instead of folded in near the end. Luckily this didn’t have a huge effect on the final product. Something I learned in class that was using a toothpick to determine if the muffins were fully cooked. If the toothpick comes out clean that means the muffins are done. If I were to do this lab again I would make sure the ingredients were added in the proper order and I would take them out of the oven a few minutes sooner. This lab was fun and was easily completed on time.