Crazy Mornings and Muffins

I don't know how your weekend mornings are, but around here they are crazy!  No sleeping in here!!  On Saturdays it's out the door early for dance class.  Sunday mornings it's out early for church and Sunday school.  I really try to make some kind of bakery yumminess for those mornings.  Lately it has been muffins.  Everyone can grab a muffin and a banana (if there are any left;) and out the door we go!

A few weeks ago I made banana muffins.  Recipe is from allrecipes.com (although I added a few extra spices and dash of vanilla)

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use liners.  Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
Combine bananas, sugar, egg, and melted butter in a large bowl.  Fold in flour mixture, and mix until smooth.  Spread into muffin tins.
Bake in preheated oven 25-30 minutes.

One week I made Oatmeal-cinnamon Muffins.  Again from allrecipes.  I added in some cut up apples and again a few extra spices.  These were delicous!!  And because of oatmeal and apples it worked great as a quick breakfast.

1 cup old-fashioned oats
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

In a large bowl, combine oats and buttermilk; let stand 5 minutes.  Stir in eggs.  Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and baking soda.  Stir into oatmeal mixture just until moistened.  Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups.  Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes.

This morning I decided to make pumpkin muffins on a whim.  I was craving them and had some pumpkin in the fridge from yesterdays pumpkin oatmeal I made.   Mmmmm, soo good!!  This recipe came from food.com

1 cup pumpkin
2 eggs
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup melted shortening
1 3/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teasoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
(I also added some milk because the batter seemed dry/thick)

Blend pumpkin, eggs, water, and shortening.  Sift together remaining ing and add.  Fill greased or paper lined tins.  Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

And that's how I try to save some time in the morning!!!

And how I enjoy evenings?  sipping chai tea and snacking on sugar molasses cookies hot out of oven:)  ahhhh, for another day;)