ovaltine chocolate chip banana muffins (and cake!)

My muffins and cake!

My friends and family kept asking me why I haven't been posting lately, and my excuse has been that I've been totally bogged down in midterms, work, and more work. But tonight when I came home at 8:30 pm, I decided I was going to bake some muffins and blog about it!

I came across a "mocha chocolate chip muffin" recipe on All Recipes. The recipe looked amazing, but I didn't have instant coffee- which is what makes the muffins mocha. So I decided to swap the instant coffee with Ovaltine. Also... I forgot to add the egg but guess what? It didn't matter! The results were amazing!

Again, the recipe is based on one I found on All Recipes, but here is what I did with my modifications.

The dough!

1 cup margarine 1 1/4 cups white sugar 1 egg 3 ripe bananas 1 tablespoon Ovaltine The muffin, half way into consumption!

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips minis

1.	Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.	Blend butter or margarine, sugar, banana, ovaltine, and vanilla in your mixer for 2 minutes. Add flour, salt, baking powder, and soda, and mix thoroughly. Add chocolate chips and mix in with a spoon. Spoon mixture into 12 muffin spaces and pour the rest into a pie pan.
3.	Bake for 25 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Admitedly, I would have made all muffins if I didn't run out of muffin papers. But I'm so glad that I ran out because now I have an awesome pie pan full of one giant muffin. I will probably bring it to work tomorrow to share!