Lunch Recipes
Banana Carrot Muffins
Description
"These muffins are INCREDIBLE. What a great way to get fruits AND veggies. My seven year old is in love--and the dog ran off with a pan full, too!"
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs, large
- 5 bananas
- 1⁄3 cup orange juice
- 1 (16 ounce) can carrots, drained or 2 cups grated carrots
- 4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Crisco, butter flavored
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In medium bowl, combine flour, soda and salt.
- In large bowl, cream Crisco and sugar.
- Mix in eggs and juice.
- Using a fork or an old fashioned potato masher, mash carrots and bananas thoroughly.
- Mix the carrots and bananas into the egg-sugar mix.
- Stir in dry mix; stir only to moisten.
- Put in lined muffin tins.
- Bake at 350°F for approximately 30 minutes, until light golden.
- To bake in microwave, bake approximately 5 minutes at 50% power for a high powered microwave; 7 minutes at 70% power for low powered microwave.
