The Brown Speckles

Brown speckles = over-ripe bananas. I'm already semi-allergic to bananas so when I try to eat an over-ripe banana... it's not pretty. Red, swollen lips and itchy everywhere. I don't even know why I attempted to eat one...

So, what do you do when you have a basket-full of brown-speckled bananas? Why, make banana muffins of course! In this case banana caramel chocolate chip muffins. I was literally cleaning out my pantry with this baking project.

Oh.My.Gosh. These banana muffins were so good! In fact, for some reason, they tasted even better the next day. I've been sort of obsessed with Smitten Kitchen's blog recently. It replaced Simply Recipes as my "go-to" place for recipes. So after seeing my brown-speckled bananas, I went to Smitten Kitchen for a banana bread recipe... and then promptly felt a wave of guilt for abandoning Simply Recipes because Smitten Kitchen just happened to use a banana bread recipe from Simply Recipes. Heh heh...

Stick to this tried-and-true recipe and do not make any changes. Well, unless you're going to add a handful of mini chocolate chips and caramel pieces, of course :)