Never Fail Banana nut muffins

My husband hates bananas but he loves banana bread.   I'm not much of a banana bread eater myself so after we married I had to find something to do with the bananas once they turned too brown to enjoy.  My aunt gave me a Good Housekeeping cookbook for a wedding present (thanks Aunt Marla) and I found a recipe for banana nut muffins that I have adapted that simply never fail. NEVER!

Banana nut muffins (makes 12)

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 TBS baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
6 TBS butter or margarine (3/4 stick)
1 cup walnuts chopped (I often leave them whole)
3 ripe bananas, cut up
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 400.  Grease muffin pan.

2.  In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.  With pastry blender or 2 knives used scissor fashion, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs, stir in walnuts; set aside.  In separate bowl, mash bananas with potato masher, and eggs, vanilla and milk until well blended.  Stir banana mixture into flour mixture and mix until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy).

3.  Spoon batter into muffin pan cups. Bake 18-25 minutes (all ovens are different) until golden brown.  Immediately remove muffins from tins and cool or serve warm.