Not just your average Banana Bread

Usually I get very bored of banana breads and banana muffins. There aren't many ways to jazz it up. But! I did add something different, and also make a tiny change to the regular old banana bread recipe that seemed to do the trick for this batch.

Coconut! Mmmm...good.

Also...I mashed half of the bananas and left the other half in diced pieces. That way you still get the texture and a bite of actual banana. It's delish. Enjoy~

Here's the recipe:

3 cups flour

2 cups sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup milk

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 sticks unsalted butter, melted and cooled

1 cup coconut

1 cup chopped walnuts

2 mashed bananas

2 bananas diced into small pieces

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder/soda and salt in large bowl.  In smaller bowl combine milk, eggs, vanilla, mashed bananas. Stir wet mixture into dry mixture just to combine.  Once combined, fold in the coconut, walnuts, and diced banana pieces.

Pour mixture into muffin tins (makes about 18 muffins) and bake at 375 for 25 minutes.

For an extra banana-y kick, top muffins with banana chips before baking. Yummy!