I tried to make these into adorable little bundt cakes and it just didn’t work as I had hoped. I swear, the only thing that is sure to work in this world is silicone muffin cups. Nothing sticks to that sh*t. I wonder if there are adorable mini bundt cake liners out there. Now that’s something worth investing in.
Let’s talk about the Golden Globes. First off, what the hell was up with George Clooney’s wife’s gloves? So many ssssss. But really, what’s up with that? White gloves? And Jennifer Aniston? Come on. Jen, you’re the most gorgeous human of all time and you showed up to the GG wearing an updo like the one I sported at my first homecoming dance. I didn’t have a date…for a reason. Your new stylist has failed you. But for real, just go naked next time. The fashion police would eat that up! And then you don’t have to pay for a stylist! Win win. You’re welcome.
The Golden Globes make me miss living with girls. Don’t get me wrong, I love living with my boyfriend, but when awards season begins, I need ladies in my life. We used to plan our entire weekend around these awards night. Sorority style. We’d make dinner together, drink wine (not me because wine tastes like rotten cat piss – I would just eat dessert), watch all the pre-show dress shenanigans, judge the sh*t out of people’s outfits even though all we really wanted was to be those people, then hated every second of the actual Golden Globes because we knew none of the movies they were talking about. BREATHE. I’m pretty good at run on sentences. This year, the boyfriend wasn’t home so I was able to do all of the above by myself but it just wasn’t near as fun. Meaning catty. I swear I’m a good person. Swear.
But let’s talk about what’s really important about the entire night…Chrissy Teigen’s pony tail. I envy pony tails like that. All I want out of life is volume in my hair. Instead I’ve been given lifeless, blonde hair that often times looks like I’m balding, which means I just need to dye it. I’ve literally read on the internet that people think I have an eating disorder because my hair is thinning. Say whaaaa? Unfair. I see these voluminous pony tails and look at mine and it looks like a limp ween in comparison. Not offensive, just pure fact. My lawd, a woman is about to chew me out in the comment section for that last sentence.
I would say the Golden Globes did their job sufficiently. They reminded us how odd Matthew McConaughey has become after transforming into his character from True Detective and how stupid hilarious Ricky Gervais is, sober or whatever he was while on stage. That Katie Holmes jokes…you’re good, my man. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler should just do Bill Cosby impersonations all day, every day. And now that they’re done with the Golden Globes, I honestly will probably never watch it again. No one is as funny. Except Jimmy Fallon. Ok, I would watch it for Jimmy Fallon. BUT THAT’S IT.
Chocolate Chip Espresso Banana Bread Muffins
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
Ingredients
- 3 brown bananas, mashed
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup almond butter (or other nut/seed butter)
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee grounds
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
- organic powdered sugar or powdered maple sugar, to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a muffin pan with oil.
- In a large bowl, mix together bananas, maple syrup, vanilla extract, eggs, and almond butter.
- Then add coconut flour, instant coffee, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and mix well. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour mixture into 12 muffin cups and place in oven to bake for 25 minutes.
- Let cool before removing from muffin cups. Garnish with powdered sugar.
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I bought a fake clip on ponytail from ebay for that exact reason. NOT ASHAMED!
Made these and used my son’s mini donut maker – turned out really nice! Thanks
These are my favorite!! Used cashew butter and maple sugar (instead of syrup) and my husband couldn’t believe they are paleo. My 88 year-old biscuits and gravy eating grandpa enjoyed them as well. Thank you Juli!
My oldest daughter said, “these are the best muffins EVER!” (This is the same daughter who used her Olaf waffle iron to make me waffles using your Light & Crispy Vanilla Protein Waffles recipe… they came out so cute.)
Thanks for another great recipe. I think with your help I’ve finally convinced my children that “this Paleo thing Mom is doing” isn’t lame.
On another note, I also made the Peach Muffin recipe from Paleo Kitchen. I think I’m going to use that as a base to recreate my favorite butter cake with a middle layer of fresh strawberries and a whipped cream frosting to celebrate my birthday. So thanks for that too!
I had no idea there was such a thing as powdered maple sugar! sounds so good, normal powdered sugar has that odd “artificial” thing about it. Will be hitting amazon next to look, will never find it in my remote town. These look like the bomb, bookmarked! Love this blog, glad someone else is also fond of run on sentences, just throw another comma in there! ha ha. Every time I stop by here, I get a good recipe and a laugh from your posts!
to get powdered maple sugar, you just pulse maple sugar in a food processor until it’s light as possible.
Made these and they are delicious. The only problem I had was the muffins stuck to the pan (I oiled the cups like you mentioned). Don’t know what the trick is to getting them out of the pan in once piece. Next time I will use cupcake papers to line the tin.
silicone liners are the best i have found
I can’t eat any tree-nut butters (I will die – for reals) but I can eat peanut butter and sunflower seed butter. Do you find that one is a better substitute than the other? I always worry that peanut butter will over power other flavors. Also, for those wanting nutrition info, you can import the recipe to myfitnesspal and get nutrition info that way. It’s pretty easy on a desktop, not on a mobile device.
Haven’t tried so it’s personal preference. If you use sunflower seed butter they may turn green because of the reaction with baking soda but they are perfectly ok to eat!
“because wine tastes like rotten cat piss.” Part of me just died.
These look amazing! I am in the middle of my first Whole30 and am loving this new eating life style. I thought I would be having to give up so much good tasting things for the sake of my health and my conscience but you and other blogs I have found like NomNomPaleo, The Clothes Make the Girl and Spunky Coconut, to name a few, have shown me otherwise. Thankyou so much for this You and you girlfriends at these other blogs are truly life savers…no, your guys really are. I will try this recipe when I stop my Whole30. I plan on the smoked Salmon rollups tomorrow and the Spghetti Squash Chicken next week. Thank you!!!!!
You never fail to make me hungry when visiting your site 🙂 oh my yum! banana bread+expresso+chocolate..the perfect trio
xoxo Sarah Grace, Fresh Fit N Healthy.