Vegan banana chocolate chip muffins

And the beautiful weather continues! Beautiful = really hot, but I’ve been enjoying it.

The other day I found myself with some getting-browner-by-the-moment bananas.  That means it’s time to bake!

Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These are delicious!

Ingredients:
-- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
-- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
-- 1/2 tsp sea salt
-- 1 cup cane sugar
-- 1/3 cup coconut oil
-- 3 to 4 ripe bananas, mashed
-- 1/4 cup water
-- 1  tsp vanilla extract
-- 1 cup vegan chocolate chips

Directions:
-- Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
-- Mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
-- In a separate bowl, stir together cane sugar and coconut oil.  Add mashed banana, chocolate chips, water and vanilla.
-- Stir together wet and dry mixtures, place into muffin tins, and bake for 30 minutes.

 

I promise, these are amazing.
The combination of banana and coconut oil in baked goods is really something special

 

Hatching Eggs

Remember the bird nest on our deck porch light?? The other day I decided to peak inside and look at the eggs, and all of a sudden I saw movement!  The eggs had hatched! It was exciting. 

Tonight we were sitting on the deck, and momma bird was feeding her little babies, about 5 feet from us:

The picture’s blurry because I cropped it and zoomed in, but this way you can see the little birds reaching up to get food … so cute!