Healthy Banana Muffins

Have you ever eaten a muffin and thought it tasted like dessert?  Yeah, those muffins are tasty, but this is perfect when you want something tasty that doesn't taste like dessert.  This recipe contains no butter or oil and very little sugar.  Bananas are already super sweet, especially when they are brown, so there isn't really a need to add much sugar.  These are moist and are healthy enough to eat with breakfast.

1 cup flour*
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 very ripe mashed bananas
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix wet ingredients together.  Add dry ingredients and stir util just barely combined.  If you over mix muffins or quick breads they will be tough, not the tender muffins that we all love.  Scoop into a greased muffin tin and bake at 350 for 15 minutes.  Makes 12 muffins.

*You can use white flour.  To make these muffins more nutritious I usually do half wheat flour.  I strongly recommend using white wheat in this recipe otherwise your muffins will be dense and heavy.  I have also used oat flour.  I often grind oat flour in a grain mill from oat groats, but you can also just put oatmeal in the blender and pulse until it looks like flour!  Either of these swaps will make for healthier muffins.