A banana muffin. I practically fell asleep typing that. Looking at a couple rotting bananas on my counter I decided to try something. I'm pretty sure someone on the internet did this already, but I was too lazy to go find it.
I peeled the two bananas and mashed them with a wooden spoon and added a ca. 1/8 teaspoon of yeast.
After 12 hours, the mush had what looks like krausen on a batch of fermenting beer and the mixture was at least twice as voluminous as when I started.
I stirred in the head to reveal this fizzing mass of fermentation. I let it go until that night, total ferment about 24 hours.
I figured enough alcohol hadn't been produced for me to be interested in, so I made a mixture to use it in. This mush was destined for muffins. I creamed butter (50 g) in sugar (100 g), added some milk (ca. 15 g) and then blended in the banana mush. I added to this flour (135 g), baking powder (1 t), baking soda (1 t) and salt (3 g) and some allspice because I was too lazy to find the cinnamon that Frankie had taken for mixing in her line of cosmetics.
I plopped the mix in little parchment cups and baked them at 350F for 30 minutes, internal about 198F, probably a tad too much. But soft on top, nice volume, texture good. Not sure they're any better than regular, but kind of a fun experiment.
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