What do you do when you have over-ripened bananas? You make muffins !! I used to love my grandmothers banana nut bread, but muffins are great for on the go. I still use my grandmothers old muffin pans. Sometimes I like to make mini-muffins with this recipe, but I leave out the nuts.
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup mashed ripe banana
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg, banana and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixture just until moistened. Fold in walnuts.
Coat muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray. Fill two-thirds full with batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for 23-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.
Makes 6 Muffins
Some tips from Chef Tom:
- If batter does not fill all the muffin cups, fill the empty ones about halfway with water.
- Try using half whole-wheat flour for a heartier muffin.
- Make sure the bananas are very ripe and soft.
Looks cute and delicious for me!
What do you think about adding a few chocolate chips here and there.
Hi Tom, could you post some suggestions for a finger buffet?
This would be wonderful for my Blog Anniversary tomorrow.
hey try these mixed berry muffins
ngredients
* 2 cups Flour
* 4 teaspoons Baking Powder
* 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon Salt
* 1/2 cup Caster Sugar
* 100 grams Melted Butter
* 1 cup Milk
* 1 Egg, lightly beaten
* 2 cups Frozen Mixed Berries
* 2 teaspoons Cinnamon (optional)
* 2 tablespoons Demerara Sugar (optional)
Instructions
Sieve all dry ingredients into a large bowl. Mix wet ingredients, excluding the frozen berries, together with a wooden spoon. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Gently mix in the frozen berries, making sure you do not over-mix. It doesn't matter if some of the dry ingredients aren't quite stirred through. Either grease a texas muffin tin (capacity 6) or place muffin cases into tin and drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the tin and sprinkle with the cinnamon and sugar topping (if desired). Cook in a 200C oven (180C fan-forced) for 15-20 minutes. Test with a skewer to ensure muffins are cooked.
Thanks for this! I was looking for smaller batch of banana muffins!