
I did it – I couldn’t resist even a second longer: I made the hot viral muffins!
Don’t you love the way eye-catching food has gone viral lately? If you’re like me, you’ve got videos all over your Facebook feed of recipes assembled in seconds using healthy, colourful ingredients. Just drizzle stuff in olive oil, into the oven it goes, and thirty seconds later, you’ve got the World’s Best Popsicles – or something.
(I’m sure this is a product of my demographic – if I was a teenage boy, no doubt I wouldn’t get quite so many recipes, and quite a few more brightly animated game images or whatever.)
From starters to entrees, from soups and salads to stews and desserts, I’m sure seen these videos and sat there drooling like me, wondering if it could possibly be THAT easy and taste as good as they say.
Today’s gorgeous post, the one which caught my eye, at least, came from a site called Averie Cooks, promised Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Blender Muffins. Which has got to be a record for number of adjectives used to describe a food product (click the link to see the original post).

I was intrigued, and after watching the video, I clicked through to Averie’s site to see what was involved.
I discovered that basically, they’re muffins (the noun at the end gives it away!) with nothing in them except a few things.
- · Bananas
- · Peanut butter
- · Honey
- · Vanilla
- · Baking soda
- · Chocolate chips
This is a pretty typical recipe, in that there are many “variations” of this recipe online, most of which are identical. So if you can’t find the original, just hunt around until you see one with this combination. Anyway, it all sounded simple enough, and I happened to have some almost-overdue bananas sitting around waiting to discover their purpose in life.
You’re supposed to just whip everything together in the blender, but