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Banana-Chocolate Cupcakes

(from the Diabetic Cooking May/June 2012 Issue) Note:  I did not have banana flavored yogurt and used vanilla.  I also did not have vanilla on hand.  I used 1 tsp. of almond extract.  Yum!  

Going Bananas. . .

 Bananas were on sale, so I decided to try dehydrating them into chips.  If they kids like them, they will be healthy, inexpensive lunch packings and snacks.  My intention was to sit, sip a hot cup of tea, inhale the wonderful apple spice candle, and read over some magazines from the library. However,  while the tea cooled, I looked over to see that more of my bananas were ripe - too ripe to eat.  So I hopped on the handy dandy computer and made these Healthy Banana Cookies .  So simple, and so delicious. Then I sat back down to sip my tea, and came across another recipe - Banana Chocolate Cupcakes. I ended up baking again.  I whipped my egg whites by hand this time.  Very easy to do also.  It was a rainy, dreary day, so it may be why I got the "baking bug" or it may be just the case of "when you give a mom a muffin."  You know how we can all get side tracked so easily in our day? These were in the "Lower-...