Molasses-Maple-Banana Muffins This most recent muffin is inspired by the molasses cookie, specifically the molasses cookie my grandma used to bake. It was fragrant, lightly spicy, soft but chewy, and generally had dates and walnuts in it. The muffins smelled so great when they came out of the oven, but for a few minutes I thought back to the sort of sugar-gritty and oily features of those delicious molasses cookies. I am pretty sure my grandma used white sugar (and quite a lot of it, I would imagine) and some kind of oil. These particular muffins are free of any poured oils, and instead of a sweet white or brown sugar I used a mix of molasses and maple syrup and banana to sweeten it. Would this muffin be a flop? Then I tasted it it... and IT WAS / IS DELICIOUS. It is uncannily like the molasses cookies of my grandma... or my memory of them... except puffier and muffin-y. I also use the oat flour and almond flour base of my last batch of muffins on her...
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