Crunchy Banana Oatmeal Muffins

Muffin Monday... is here! I hope your weekend was relaxing. I had a great weekend! I love the weekends. Late afternoon naps... date nights... and hanging out with family. I love my family!

These Crunchy Banana Oatmeal Muffins were good. I had been given a bunch of bananas... and have been making Banana Bread... Banana Muffins... these Crunchy Banana Oatmeal Muffins... and freezing them for my Peanut Butter Banana Shake. If you have not tried this shake you must! You can find the recipe here.


These muffins are a dense muffin. Slather them with butter or marmalade.
The topping is made up of sesame seeds and pecans. How yummy is that!!

Here is the Recipe:

Crunchy Banana Oatmeal Muffins
By Carrie Perrins
*Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Annual Recipes 1996 Cookbook

Topping
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 Tbsp. chopped pecans
2 Tbsp. all purpose flour
1 Tbsp. sesame seed
1 Tbsp. butter, softened
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

Muffin
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup  milk
1 slightly beaten egg
2 Tbsp. cooking oil
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin pan with paper cups.
For the topping, in a small bowl combine brown sugar, pecans, flour, sesame seed, butter, and cinnamon. Stir together until combined. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl stir together the flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon.
In a medium mixing bowl stir together the bananas, milk, egg, oil, and vanilla. Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture.
Stir until just moistened. The batter should be lumpy.

Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle topping over each muffin.
Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.

Serve warm.
Makes 12 Muffins.

I hope you have a happy Monday!
And... if you have a bunch of bananas... go make these Crunchy Banana Oatmeal Muffins.

Go Bananas!

Carrie