Honey, let me tell you about one of my favorite recipes — Banana Split Muffins in a Jar is something I’ve been making for years and it never disappoints! This is the kind of dish that fills the whole kitchen with the most wonderful aroma and has everyone asking when dinner will be ready.
Made with simple, wholesome ingredients like all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, this recipe comes together without any fuss. That’s the way Gran likes it — good food that doesn’t keep you in the kitchen all day.
Whether you’re making this for a weeknight dinner or bringing it to a gathering, I promise it will disappear fast. Don’t forget to scroll down and let me know how it turned out in the comments!
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Banana Split Muffins in a Jar
Ingredients
- 1 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 0.5 teaspoon Salt
- 2 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
- 0.33333333333333 cup Sugar
- 1.5 cup Cereals
Instructions
- Mix flour, salt and baking powder.
- Layer 1/2 in jar.
- Place cocoa powder in jar, press well, then wipe off.
- Place cereal in bag and crush, or use food processor.
- layer crushed cereal and flour in alternately layers.press firmly.
- attach following instructions to jar:.
- dump jar ingredients into a large bowll.
- mix well with fingers.make a well in the center.
- add 1 medium mashed banana, 3/4 cup milk, 1 large egg, beaten, 2 tbls oil, 1/2 cup chopped, drained maraschino cherries.
- Mix till combined —
- Divide between 12 muffin cups either lined with paper liners or sprayed.
- Bake at 375* for 25 minutes.
