Two Easy Muffin Recipes

I recently had to make a breakfast item for an early school meeting and had the urge to make two types of muffin recipes I found on Pinterest.  They weren't quite as good as my grandma's Banana Bread recipe or Brooke's grandma's Pumpkin Bread recipe, but they were easy to make and still delicious!

Banana Muffins

[original recipe]

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Line standard muffin cups with paper liners.

3. Mash the bananas and in a mixing bowl,use an electric mixer to beat together the bananas and sugar.

4. Melt the butter and beat in with the bananas and sugar.

5. In a another bowl stir together the four, salt and baking soda.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.

6. Divide the batter into the prepared cups and and bake 10-15 minutes.

7. Test with a toothpick inserted in the middle of a muffin. If it comes out clean the muffins area ready. Remove the pan to a cooling rack. Let sit for 5 minutes then, move each muffin onto the cooling rack.

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

[original recipe]

Ingredients:

1 Spice Cake Mix
1 can pumpkin
3 eggs
1/4 water

Streusel Topping:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Line standard muffin cups with paper liners.

3. Mix all the muffin ingredients together and divide the batter into the prepared cups . Next time I think I might add raisins. :) 

4. To make the streusel topping, add flour and sugar together and cut in butter. Place a couple of spoonfuls of topping on each muffin.

5. Bake for 15 – 18 minutes.  Test with a toothpick inserted in the middle of a muffin. If it comes out clean the muffins area ready. Remove the pan to a cooling rack. Let sit for 5 minutes then, move each muffin onto the cooling rack.

Enjoy!