Banana Muffins with Browned Butter Icing

My rating:  stars

Kids' rating: 5 stars

"Mom, we are literally having cupcakes for breakfast."
-Drew

MUFFIN:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas
4 tablespoons buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda

ICING:
4 T Butter
2 Cups powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk or cream. But cream. Definitely cream.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, bananas, buttermilk and vanilla until well mixed. Add flour, baking powder, salt and soda. Mix. Pour into 1 large or 2 small greased and floured bread pans. Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes. (2 small pans will be more like 30-35). You can also turn these into muffins and bake for 20-22 minutes.

For the icing, melt butter over low low heat (if your stove has a simmer setting, use that), for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally until it starts to brown a bit (not dark brown! That's burnt). Remove from heat and add powdered sugar and cream, a bit at a time, alternating, until you have a nice glaze consistency. These are estimates, I should have measured better. Add vanilla last. Drizzle over each cupcake, I mean, muffin.

I usually double the muffin recipe (the icing recipe accounts for the doubling).

I have no idea where I got the muffin recipe, but the frosting recipe came from my brain. That's why it's not very exact. Maybe someday I'll fix that.