{"id":2302,"date":"2019-07-14T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2019-07-14T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:47:53","slug":"baked-sunday-mornings-waking-with-banana-espresso-and-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Baked Sunday Mornings: Waking with banana, espresso and chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few good muffins\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it really doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hurt to have a handful of go-to recipes for these underrated (and too infrequently made) breakfast and coffee-time treats. Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I make more muffins? After all, they are easy (even kids can stir them up) and come together quickly. In a matter of moments you can have a batch in the oven \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and out \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in a relatively short baking time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baked Sunday Mornings recipe roster is getting me reacquainted with my fondness for and experience with home-baked muffins, with last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Orange Almond Blueberry Muffins, and this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins (recipe: http:\/\/bakedsundaymornings.com\/2019\/07\/05\/in-the-oven-banana-espresso-chocolate-chip-muffins\/<\/a>), both from Matt Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Renato Poliafito\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baked: New Frontiers in Baking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (2008). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[N]ot only do I love any excuse to make muffins, I also I love having a reason to break out the espresso powder and infuse something with it (as well as add a caffeine kick to my baked goods). The combination here of banana, espresso and chocolate seemed unusual and intriguing to me, so I was anxious to try this recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] did tinker with the recipe a bit, mainly adding a few things. For some reason, toasted pecans seemed to speak to me as something that would lend a bit of additional rich flavor and a crunch to the texture. I ended up using about 1\/2 cup (folded in at the end).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] also added a couple of pinches of cinnamon to the dry ingredients (that included the espresso). I always seem to put cinnamon in my coffee, and I thought it would also team up nicely here with he other flavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]o the wet ingredients, I took it upon myself (and actually couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help myself) to add a splash of vanilla to the four mashed bananas, melted butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg and milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]his muffin recipe also employed the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well method\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of mixing, where the dry ingredients are distributed so there is a deep bowl within the bowl in the center, and into this, the wet ingredients are poured. Everything is stirred gently until just mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[A]t this point, I folded in chocolate chips (I used mini chips here\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to that reason shortly) and the toasted pecans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[O]ne last bit of straying from the recipe was my decision to make these in mini muffin size (thus my downsizing of the chocolate chips), for the sheer reason that I wanted more muffin mileage \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I had a work thing I wanted t bring these muffins to, so I opted to get more of them,  in bite-sized form. This recipe filled about 34 mini muffin cavities, and I probably could have gotten 36 had I filled them a little less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I]t took about 15 minutes for these to bake completely (I have a slow oven). They were a beautiful dark golden-brown, and after I let them cool a bit, they released easily from the pans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been a huge fan of banana and chocolate together (like chocolate chips in banana bread or fudge frosting on banana cake), but I think the espresso powder flavor element helps tie everything together here. These little gems were moist and flavorful (and as I noticed as I put part of them away to store for later, smelled outstanding), and I do think the crunch of the pecans (or walnuts or your favorite nut) was a good decision. Despite the presence of such strong flavors as banana, espresso and chocolate, no one flavor dominated, so they almost teamed to create a new flavor of some kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note: You’ll find the recipe for Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins at Baked Sunday Mornings: http:\/\/bakedsundaymornings.com\/2019\/07\/05\/in-the-oven-banana-espresso-chocolate-chip-muffins\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few good muffins\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it really doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hurt to have a handful of go-to recipes for these underrated (and too infrequently made) breakfast and coffee-time treats. Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I make more muffins? After all, they are easy (even kids can stir them up) and come together quickly. In a matter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,12,1],"tags":[257,57,121,317,361,146],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookshelf","category-oantry","category-recipe-box","category-uncategorized","tag-bananas","tag-bread","tag-breakfast","tag-chocolate-chips","tag-espresso","tag-muffins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}