Birthday Breakfast Mini Muffins

A cake mix, bananas, applesauce and sprinkles are all it takes to make these fun and yummy Birthday Breakfast Mini Muffins for a special birthday breakfast!

So Easy!

And when I say easy, I mean easy with this recipe. We’re talking 4 ingredients and less than 30 minutes. Just a cake mix, mashed banana, applesauce and sprinkles.

I usually bake from scratch, but I’ve never been against a boxed mix. And one of my favorite ways to bake with a boxed cake mix is by totally ignoring the instructions on the box. Haha!

Just take a boxed cake mix and add some fruit to it instead of the oil, water and eggs and you’d never believe it unless you were the one who baked it. My 2-Ingredient Baked Cake Donuts are another great example of a recipe that y’all rave about for its ease and tasty results.

So make someone’s birthday morning extra special, or any morning special for that matter, with these festive breakfast muffins.

A 5th Anniversary Celebration

It’s The BakerMama’s birthday! No not me, but my blog! The BakerMama is officially 5 years old today! On September 12, 2012, I shared the recipe for my favorite Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies and that’s when all the fun and yum began.  I can’t believe that I’ve been sharing my love of food and life on this little blog for 5 whole years now.

I say little, but truly, it’s grown into something much bigger than I could have ever imagined. And I have each of you to thank for that! Your enthusiasm and excitement for the recipes I create and share is what keeps me so inspired.

I love LOVE hearing how much you enjoy making my recipes. I love how my recipes bring your family around the table or running to the kitchen when they smell my One-Bowl Fudge Brownies coming out of your oven.

Or when:

You tag me in a picture of your kids baking my M&M Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies with you.

I get messages in the middle of the night while you’re nursing your sweet newborn and thank me for sharing my No-Bake Lactation Bites recipe with you because they’ve been a much needed energy and supply booster.

You tag me each time you eat a donut and say that you can’t even look at a donut without thinking of me. Hehe! Love it!

I get emails asking for restaurant recommendations in Dallas, NYC, Chicago, Napa, San Fran, Portland, Boston and other tasty cities…because you know Brandon and I ate our way through that city on a serious mission to find the best eats it had to offer.

And last but certainly not least, when you reach out to me to chat about the ups and downs of motherhood. It’s the hardest yet most magical role in the world and it’s so reassuring to know that we are all in it together and can lean on each other through it all. I hear we will survive, right?!

So Blessed

I feel so blessed to do what I do with The BakerMama. Sure its been lots of late nights and early mornings and every minute in between all while raising my crazy crew and snuggling my hubby, but it’s my dream job and I love it so so much!

I wish I could have each and every one of you over to bake with me and thank you for your love and support over the years! It means more to me than donuts and y’all know that’s A LOT! So let’s celebrate with these Birthday Breakfast Mini Muffins.

Ingredients and Supplies

(see recipe card at the bottom of this post for measurements and details)

Ingredients:

• Boxed vanilla cake mix (just the dry mix, not the ingredients listed in the box instructions). Or you can use a strawberry cake mix which makes them pink with strawberry flavor as well. Such a fun option!
• Mashed overripe banana
• Unsweetened applesauce
• Rainbow sprinkles

Supplies:

• Two (24-cup) mini muffin tins
• Mini cupcake liners
• Nonstick cooking spray
• Large mixing bowl

How to Make Birthday Breakfast Mini Muffins

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 34 mini muffin cups (you’ll probably need 2 mini muffin pans or can bake them in batches) with liners and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, add the dry cake mix.
• Stir in the mashed banana and applesauce until well combined.
• Add 1 cup rainbow sprinkles.

• Fold in the rainbow sprinkles.

• Scoop batter evenly among the prepared muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full. Sprinkle the top of each muffin cup with more sprinkles.

• Bake on the middle or lower rack of the oven for 14-16 minutes or until muffins have risen and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

If you make these Birthday Breakfast Mini Muffins, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me on Instagram @thebakermama so I can see. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to join my Friends of The BakerMama group to connect and share all the fun and yummy recipes of mine that you make! I just love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the ideas I share. Enjoy!

xoxo,

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