Spiced Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Spiced Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins from Amanda's Cookin

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
3 medium ripe bananas
3 tablespoons vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 cup pecans
1 cup milk chocolate chips, divided
Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.

2. In large bowl using a wooden spoon, beat together sugar and oil. Add eggs and bananas, mix well. In small bowl, stir the baking soda into the vanilla yogurt. Add yogurt mixture slowly to the banana mixture. Add vanilla and stir until combined.

3. Whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves. Add flour mixture to the banana mixture and fold in. Do not overmix! Overmixing will result in tough muffins. Stir only until combined, batter may be lumpy.

4. Fold in pecans and half of the chocolate chips. Spoon batter into greased jumbo muffin cups. Sprinkle top of muffin batter with remaining chocolate chips.

5. Bake 20-22 minutes. Turn out onto cooling rack and allow to cool completely.

Makes 11 jumbo muffins.