Tropical Muffins

This morning we made muffins, and they actually ended up being quite frugal. We doubled the recipe so that we were using a whole can of crushed pineapple rather than just half, and we had picked it up on sale. Plus we used bananas from the freezer - in January the bananas looked so good, but would go from green to brown overnight about half the time, so we ended up with quite the stash in the freezer (you didn't think I would throw them out did you?)

Plus I had picked up the vanilla (real stuff), flour, butter, eggs, baking powder and baking soda at Costco for a fraction of the cost at the supermarket! So this was actually all stuff I had on hand! You have to love that!

And to make this even more frugal, I was able to fit two pans of muffins in my oven!

Oh, and they were also delicious! (After all, it is not frugal if they taste horrible and end up moldy because nobody would eat them!)

Tropical Muffins - Makes 24

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cups crushed pineapple (drained but do not squeeze out)
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana

Cream sugar and butter together. Add vanilla and egg, beat until light and fluffy. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with mixed banana and pineapple. Mix gently until dry ingredients are just moistened.

Place in greased muffin tins and bake at 375 F for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 for another 10-15 minutes.

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