Do you know the muffin man? His name is Adam.

These pictures are from our "family baking night." That's right, mommy thought it would be fun to make muffins, as a family. Daddy, Adam, and mommy made banana chocolate chip muffins. Amazingly enough, these muffins contain no oil and are SO scrumptious! (I'll post the recipe at the end of the blog)

Anyway, Adam thought it was great fun to make the muffins. He and daddy even went to the store to pick up the missing ingredients, and daddy said that Adam was very proud to carry the chocolate chips through the store.

As you can see, it wasn't a HUGE mess and it was neat to see how excited Adam got over helping out. He's also into making crazy faces when I take his picture, now. He's saying "cheese" in some of them, but overall he just thinks it's a riot to make silly faces.

On another note: why is it so cool to take off our clothes? Adam thinks it's great to strip down, these days. Hence the reason he is shirtless in the photos. We didn't actually take his shirt off, he did. And, when I got him up from his nap he had no pants on. haha.

Hope everyone had a great Monday!

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 large bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use paper liners. Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine bananas, sugar, egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture, and mix until smooth (don't beat these with a mixer, it doesn't make them fluffy enough). Scoop into muffin pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven. Bake mini muffins for 10 to 15 minutes, and large muffins for 25 to 30 minutes. Muffins will spring back when lightly tapped.