banana nut muffins

i had some bananas that had seen better days so i figured it best to make some muffins rather than waste. i googled recipes and settled on one by tyler florence that seemed easy enough. also, this project gave me an excuse to use my heart-shaped cupcake/muffin pan for the first time.

mashing the bananas was my favorite part, but it made me think of the wiggles.

so, you may have noticed if you checked out the recipe that it was meant to make 12 jumbo muffins rather than twelve cupcake-sized muffins. after filling up my muffin pan i had enough batter left over to fill a mini loaf pan...unfortunately i don't own any of those so i made due with a mini heart-shaped springform pan.

the results were mixed. while the regular muffins were really yummy and cute and stuff, the giant muffin in the springform pan took forever to bake and rose too much and made a fat mess in my oven.

my old man got a bit zealous and took a muffin before i could take a picture of my completed product.

you could only tell they were heart-shaped if you looked at the bottom. oops.

there is a pan under all that mess.

overall i was satisfied with what i made and recommend the tyler florence recipe to y'all. it was delicious and ridiculously easy. just make sure you have the proper pans.