Because I’m Generous

Here’s the recipe for the world’s best banana muffins, so you can make your own. We end up with about 18 muffins that we might share, but usually just keep to ourselves!

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1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix sugar, oil, and egg until creamy. Stir in bananas. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Pour into muffin tins (I use cupcake papers because it’s easier to clean afterwards) and bake 30-40 minutes.

Then partake, enjoy, and buy more bananas to make another batch.

P.S. Yes, I know, if I were actually generous I would give you the muffins instead of just the recipe. But it’s a start.

More on Cup Pies

The first time we made cup pies, they were apple. Delicious. So delicious. We put a crumb topping on them (really simple – just flour, sugar, and butter), for extra tastiness. And we used a homemade piecrust, which turned out perfectly.

To save time and energy, we bought Pillsbury piecrusts this time. Here’s my verdict: while infintely easier, the Pillsbury crusts just don’t taste as good, and I did that math to calculate that 14 cup pies for $2.25/box of Pillsbury crusts doesn’t quite compare to 17 cup pies for $1.50/ingredients for homemade crust.

So here’s the recipe for you. I borrowed it from my cousin Jennifer, who was given the recipe by her mom. It really is easy as pie.

Pie Crust

3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1 egg
1/3 cup milk

Combine the flour and salt. Cut in the shortening. In a separate bowl, combine the egg and milk; add to the flour mixture. Stir until just moistened – do not overmix. Roll out on floured board. Makes 2 9″ piecrusts or about 18 cup piecrusts.

Enjoy!

P.S. I want a pastry cutter. And there are pictures of the cup pies now, in the original post. Yum.

Cup Pies

I’ll admit I was skeptical the first time (ok, the first hundred times) the Romgi told me about his idea for “cup pies” – which he described as being “like pies, but in a cup.” I insisted that they would basically be tarts. He said I was wrong. I said he was wrong. And so we never made cup pies.

…Until recently. Remember when we made apple pie at Quimberlee’s? They gave us a huge bag of apples to take home, and the Romgi really wanted to make little cup pies out of them.

Turns out he meant making them in cupcake tins, so they’d be cup-pies instead of cupcakes, and instead of tarts. Which actually seems to mean he was right. Not only that, I now concede that cup pies are a brilliant invention. Perfectly shaped, perfectly sized, they’re adorable, delicious, and fun to give to neighbors. We gave some to one of the other three couples in the duplex (divided into main floor and basement – we’re in the other basement section), and they ended up inviting us over for FHE this week. It was like having friends! …It was so cool!

Also, last week we went up to American Fork to gather walnuts that this lady didn’t want (I think she was allergic, and the tree came with the house). We got tons and tons…and finally got them husked and shelled, then chopped them up to make maple walnut cup pies. Tasty!!

So, the Romgi, this is my public statement that you were right and I was wrong.

Long live the cup pie.