Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

This recipe is so easy -- you can even make it in the food processor if you have one!  Serve as-is or ice with cream cheese frosting if you wish.

Black Bottom Cupcakes

It's Shaun's birthday and that means he gets to take cupcakes to work! Now, light fluffy cake and pouffy icing doesn't a manly cupcake make; and Shaun would insist it's bad enough to carry a cupcake carrier to work with him without there being frou-frou cupcakes inside....a serious insult to his manhood I'm sure.

So here we are...the manliest cupcakes in the world. Even their name screams of manliness...the Black Bottom Cupcake...sounds sinister doesn't it?

What we have is dark Devils food cake, no icing on these cupcakes...(real men don't eat icing)...and a little dollop..oh, excuse me...a robust blob(!) of cream cheese filling (cream cheese is ok apparently being the stuff many a chip-dip is made from). Just don't tell him there are mini chocolate chips mixed in...if he asks I'll tell him it's poison. Manly Poison.

Mini Doughnut Cinnamon Sugar Muffins

There is nothing quite as delicious as a mini doughnut.  Hot, moist cake doughnut deep fried to greasy perfection doused with sugar and cinnamon.  This recipe attempts to at least somewhat replicate that in the form of a muffin.  Moist sweet cake, basted with melted butter then rolled in the familiar mixture of cinnamon and sugar.  Makes 12 large muffins but would work equally well in a mini muffin tin for charming mini - mini doughnut muffins.