Whether you’re making them for breakfast (reduce the sugar a little and add walnuts instead of chocolate chips) or as a sweet treat, these muffins will knock your socks off. Bake in a loaf pan to make Banana Chocolate Chip Bread.

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour or unbleached all-purpose flour

• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1⁄3 cup canola or grapeseed oil

• 4 ripe bananas, mashed

• 1/4 cup water

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (and/or 1 cup walnuts)

Directions
1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease your muffin tins.

2 Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt.

3 In a large bowl, beat the sugar and oil together, then add the mashed bananas. Stir in the water and vanilla and mix thoroughly. Add the flour mixture, along with the chocolate chips, and stir to mix. (Alternatively, you may just peel the bananas, break them into a food processor, and puree them along with the sugar and oil. Add the water and vanilla, then transfer to a bowl. Stir in the flour combo, and add the chocolate chips.)

4 Fill each muffin tin halfway with the batter. Bake for 20–30 minutes, until they are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Yield : 9 or 10 muffins.

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Excerpted from The 30-Day Vegan Challenge by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copyright © 2011 by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. Photographs © 2011 by Sara Remington Excerpted by permission of Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.