I make this mini muffin recipe for my three little ones. they like them a lot and I do too. no added sugar and egg-free because one of them has an egg allergy. pictured with optional blueberry but I prefer to make it without Ingredients 2 ripe bananas 2 tablespoons ground flax seed 5 tablespoons warm water 1 tsp vanilla extract 100g melted butter 160g all purpose flour 1.5 tsp baking powder blueberries (fresh or frozen, optional) oil/butter to grease pan equipment two large bowls one butter melting vessel measuring spoons mixing spoon/spatula one small bowl and whisk/fork for flax eggs mini muffin pan two spoons for scooping into the pan Short version 0. Preheat to 375°F and grease pans 1. Combine the wets 2. Combine the drys 3. Add the dry to the wet and mix until no dry remains. Do not over mix. 4. Bake for 15 minutes 5. Cool in pan Long version because karo talks too much 0. Preheat oven to 375°F and grease pans. Oven and pan needs to be ready to go because this recipe rises based on baking powder and it loses efficacy once it gets mixed with liquid. 1. Combine ground flax seed and water. Whisk until combined and is starting to be a little gloopy. Set aside. 2. Melt butter. I sliced into thick pads into a glass measuring cup and microwave in 20 second bursts. 3. Mash bananas in a mixing bowl. I go til there are only small chunks remaining. 4. Combine flour and baking powder into a second mixing bowl. I wrote 1.5 tsp baking powder but I end up throwing in an extra pinch of it for, I dunno, it makes me feel better about not being able to get as much lift because I'm not using eggs. 5. Add flax eggs and vanilla to bananas. Stir melted butter if it has separated while sitting and then add it to the mixture. Mix everything together until combined, mostly homogenous. 6. Prepare to work fast for the remaining steps cuz baking powder will start lifting when it gets combined with liquid ingredients. 7. Add the flour and baking powder mix into the banana bowl. When I add it, I try to cover as much surface area of the wet ingredients with the flour instead of just dumping it in one spot in the middle. 8. Mix it all together until there are no white flour dry spots. Use a gently folding motion where you insert your spatula under the mixture and fold it over like you're flipping an over medium egg. 9. Spoon the batter into the mini muffin tin. About level or just under filled is fine. top with a fresh or frozen blueberry. 10. Bake for 15 minutes. 11. Cool in the pan to give it support while cooling. Some questions I had for myself that you may also have 100g butter? why not 113g which is one stick of butter? I don't know. It's what I wrote. Past karo could not be reached for a comment. Present karo says an extra 13g of butter will be okay if you want to skip scaling and use the whole stick, probably. ground flax seed? I thought this was gonna be one of those fancy organic grocer things but nope, Walmart has it. can I make regular sized muffins with this recipe? I've never done it. It probably would work. If you try it, let me know how it goes. can I make a double batch? Yes. I did this for the first time recently and doubling the ingredients works. Can I freeze these? We set out 6 to eat the next day and froze the rest. To reheat, I microwave for about 20 to 40 seconds (depending on how many) and then toast them in the toaster oven. is this gonna work? I ask myself this everytime especially as I mix the butter into the wet ingredients. folding, what a silly way to describe stirring. I'm just gonna stir it really fast, vigorously and for an extra long time to make sure everything is definitely mixed. surely, that will be okay? It'll be okay if you like chewy, dense muffins instead tender, fluffy muffins. Aggressive stirring will start to work the flour to form gluten and doing it for more time will lessen the lifting power of the baking powder. why is there a step zero? because I forgot to write preheat the oven, just like I forget to preheat the oven before baking. will you put this on zap cooking? yes! but not sure when. I wrote too many words for this simple recipe. I hope you guys make these and they bring joy to your life while you eat them. If not, taro and the twins will gladly consume them on your behalf.

mini muffin recipe posting delayed by nap refuser culprit #1 and culprit #2 the twins are on the verge of walking and it is seriously messing up their sleep.

would it be weird if I shared my mini muffin recipe right now? the situation with Coinkite and Coldcard is heartbreaking and angering. It's being talked about it by everyone. but also, these muffins have no added sugar and is egg free cuz one of the kiddos has allergies. I've made it a few times and I'm kinda proud of it.

I'm baking bread and making cheese. these are not euphemisms.

we are not getting discharged today. Another night at the hospital with my baby. We got more tests done today to rule out more things which means we still don't know what's up and can only manage symptoms. Hope he feels better tomorrow. View quoted note →

I always forget that reading comprehension of the general public is LOW. every so once in a while I'll ask questions about my crafts and hobbies on social media like reddit or Facebook groups (lots of old timey crafters on there) and get useless replies. So many of them clearly demonstrate a complete lack of understanding what the post was about and the questions asked. Just like those people who leave reviews on Amazon that says "I don't know if it's good or not." or yelp reviews that are like "didn't eat here. laundromat needs quarters." uggghhh. okay. rant over. no more asking the Internet for answers. I'll just fiddle and experiment myself.

who the hell is buying a 4 bed, 2.5 bath single family home for 1.3 MILLION DOLLARS. it's crazy.

I don't post videos or images of my children so you'll have to use your imagination. Both of them are getting great at crawling on their tummies. One of them crawls using AWD and the other is FWD. #momstr

the littles are connecting their day time nap cycles now so my problem now is when do I wake you guys up? are you sleeping too much??? what a nice problem to have 😆

taro has tagged along to so many well baby appointments that going to the doctor is not a scary thing cuz he never thinks it's for him 😆

another successful restaurant outing with three kids under 3 years old. we're getting pretty good at it!

today in twins: aww, look! they're holding hands 😍 oh wait, he just wants to bite his brother's fingers.

its only been two months since I posted last but it feels way longer than that. taro healed up really well from his hip surgeries and he's back to running around like nothing ever happened. sick scar though ⚡ the twins, oh man. THEY ARE GROWING. churro and ferro are their nicknames (did I say that already?) churro charges head on into anything. he explores and doesn't stop. ferro stays back and observes. we cut their hair different to better tell them apart. As for me, motherhood in the trenches of 3 young children is tiring but rewarding. They're all sleeping through the night (11 hours!) with the twins having mini wake ups but they're able to self settle. I have time to myself in the evenings now after chores are done to do my crafting. I'm mostly cross stitching these days cuz it's relaxing and rewarding. What's new with you guys? #momstr

a late night update. I just got finished feeding one of the twins for their overnight feed. they're getting close to sleeping through the night. the world is too fun during daytime waking hours between rolling around and grabbing their feet to get all their needed calories in. They'll be starting solids soon and I hope that'll help too. In other news, taro was hospitalized for a week in January and had two hip surgeries. He had a very bad bacterial infection that took residence up in his hip joint so they had to open up his hip and flush it out. It got bad enough to affect the bone too. At his age, he is growing fast so once he's recovered from the surgery he shouldn't be affected whatsoever. He's been laid up for almost a month now but since being discharged from the hospital he's been making strides in recovery. So proud of my little dude. I can't wait for him to be running around with his busy toddler antics again. As for me, I switched from knitting to cross stitching. I pulled out a kit that I was working on before I had taro and picked up where I left off. The pattern is printed directly on the fabric so it's like color by number, but with stitching. a perfect blend of zoning out and repetitive work. I've been working on a bubble that's part of the background that's mostly shades of white. Boring and engaging which is just what I need at the end of the day after the three kiddos have gone to bed. It's been rough start to 2026 but this year is going to be filled with cuteness with a 2 year old and two rapidly growing twin babies. I'm excited. Hope everyone is doing well! Happy New Year! #momstr