Banana choc chip muffins

Credit where it's due - I adapted this from the current Waitrose magazine, which I find to be a fantastic source of recipes.  It's a brilliant way of using up fruit that's a bit past its best, really easy to make and really tasty.

I've never done much in the way of baking so I can guarantee that any desserts I blog will be really easy!  All this one takes is some measuring of ingredients and a bit of mixing.

Don't plan to make this - there's no point in buying bananas to make it with, because it needs ones that are a bit past their best.  The time to make this is when you've got a couple of rapidly blackening ones in the bottom of the fruit bowl.

Preheat the oven to 190C.  Prepare a muffin tin with muffin cases (from the home-baking aisle).

You will need two mixing bowls.  If, like me, you're new at baking you might not have much kit so you might find yourself improvising with something like a dessert bowl.

In your smaller bowl, place the following:  two over-ripe bananas, two eggs, 125g milk and 75g melted butter (I melt it by zapping in the microwave on low for two minutes).

Mash it all together with a fork.  It doesn't have to be smooth, but don't leave any big bits of banana.

In the larger bowl, place the following:  250g self-raising flour, 50g oats, 115g dark brown soft sugar, 25g chocolate chips (also from the baking aisle) and a level teaspoonful each of bicarbonate of soda and baking powder.

Mix the dry ingredients up, then add the banana mixture to them.  Stir until it's all combined - it doesn't take too much time or effort.  Chef gets to lick the spoon.

Spoon the mixture equally between the cases.  Try to be neater than me, but a bit of spillage doesn't matter!

Bake in the oven for 25 minutes.

I am in no way a baking expert, and I have absolutely no idea why some of them have risen more than others.

They're perfectly nice to eat just as they are, but I like to cut them in half, butter each half and give them 10 minutes in the oven to melt the butter - delicious!

Once you've mastered it, you'll be trying all sorts of combinations.  I thought this could have used more chocolate, for example.  How about apple and raisin, with a bit of cinnamon?  Or ginger?  The possibilities are endless!