I'm sure that by now everyone is probably calling muffin girl!
I know, I know, I've been going crazzzy with muffins lately, but I just can't help it!
Muffins are so darn good, their like mini cakes, ready to eat, just right portion sized lil cakeys.
The other day my mom came home with a bag FULL of bananas, ripe bananas.
My only solution? Baking time!
I could never eat all of those super ripe bananas myself, no ma'am!
So since I'm in my muffin craze, I decided to make some muffins, but not any kind of banana muffin,
a special kind!
I made a crunchy, oatmeal cookie type of crumbly topping for these babies, and let me tell you,
the best part about taking a bite out of them is the wonderful texture and taste out of that topping.
The combination of crunchy and soft is irresistable to me, and I'm sure that it'll be to you as well!

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
1 heaped tsp baking soda
1 heaped tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 bananas, mashed
1 cup sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup butter/margarine, melted
1/2 cup of any kind of nut (I used cashews) - optional

Topping:

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
2 tbsp oats
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 1/2 tbsp butter/margarine

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Lightly grease 24 mini muffin cups/12 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.

In a large bowl, mix together 1 3/4 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter.

Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 3 tbsp flour, oats and cinnamon. Cut in 1 1/2 tbsp butter/margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Cover muffin completely with topping.

Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

These make 24 mini muffins such as the image above or 12 big american sized ones.
Go ahead and make them mini, it's a good, satisfying portion size!