A Delicious Passover Coronavirus Lockdown Project: Savta Shuly's Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Passover is almost here. Wednesday evening we will be sitting down to a very different Pesach seder. For most of us it will be a solitary experience, for one, two, maybe a few more family members.

The coronavirus lockdown or stay-at-home orders issued in most states is a test of our ability to come up with innovative ways of celebrating the festival of freedom. Thanks to the wonders of technology, many homes will light up with the presence of multi-generational family members in Zoom seders.

As always, involving children and finding ways for them to participate in the seder and pre-seder activities will be a high priority this year. 

We think that including children in preparing special Passover treats will give all of us a lift. So we're sharing one of our favorite recipes -- Savta Shuly's Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins -- a recipe that we use year-round with flour, but find just as delicious with cake meal and potato starch substituted for flour on Pesach.

If you're making these muffins year-round, use 2 cups of flour instead of the cake meal/potato starch mixture shown here.

UPDATE: The recipe and list of ingredients now appears below the video.

So follow along with the video, and include the kids in measuring and mixing. We're sure it will result in more smiles around the seder table and for the rest of the week, too.

Enjoy! 

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Savta Shuly’s Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

½ cup margarine 

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour (For Passover, use 1 cup cake meal and 1/3 cup potato starch)

½ tsp baking powder

¾ tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

1 cup mashed bananas

¼ cup sour milk or orange juice 1 tsp vanilla

1 cup chocolate chips

Use one large and two medium mixing bowls. Cream margarine and sugar in largest bowl. Add beaten eggs and vanilla.

Beat bananas with orange juice or milk in one medium bowl

Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in the other medium bowl. Add 1/3 of dry ingredients to wet ingredients.Add half of banana mixture to wet ingredients. Add 1/3 of dry ingredients to wet ingredients.

Add remainder of banana mixture to wet ingredients. Add last 1/3 of dry ingredients.

Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon into muffin tin.

Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.