Chocolate Chip Banana Pumpkin Muffins

I like making muffins.  Lately I've been making a habit of making muffins on Sundays as a way to entertain myself (it's been "Football Sunday", which means I get the whole day to myself while the hubby sits in front of the TV from 8 am to 8 pm) and on the plus side, we end up with muffins for breakfast or a snack for the next few days.

Chocolate Chip Banana Pumpkin Muffins
adapted from http://www.cooks.com/

Ingredients
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 medium overripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt

Tools
- muffin pan
- mixer
- cookie dough scoop (optional)

Steps
1. Preheat oven at 375 degrees.

2. Mix mashed banana, pumpkin, sugar, milk, oil and egg in mixer until well blended.  Pour in the chocolate chips.

3. In a separate bowl, combine sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.

4. Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and combine just until mixed (don't over mix!).  Spoon (use a cookie dough scoop if you have one, they are great!) into greased muffin tins.  Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into muffin comes out clean.

Makes 12.

A few tips...
...you can make mini muffin by using a mini muffin pan!  If you don't want to end up with tons of mini banana pumpkin muffins, you can reduce the recipe by half and can probably get close to about 24 mini muffins.
...you can add anything extra as desired, such as pecans, walnuts, or dried cranberry.