Saturday, 15 September 2012

Banana, Walnut, Chocolate-Chip Muffins


Im always looking for a way to use up the bananas in my freezer.  This recipe is based on a peanut-butter banana muffin recipe found in my go-to Canadian Living muffin book, and the end result received great feedback from my friends. 

In the spirit of the original recipe, I served the warm muffins with peanut-butter... brilliant!

Ingredients:

1.5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg

2 cups mashed bananas (about 6 frozen bananas)
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 egg
1/4 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Crumble Topping
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

in a large bowl, combine dry ingredients.  In a separate bowl, beat egg, mix in vanilla, oil, yogurt and mashed bananas, in that order.  Pour over dry mixture and mix just until moistened (do not over-mix, or muffins will be rubbery).  Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips,  spoon into muffin tray.  top with crumble mix.

Bake in oven for about 25 minutes.

Makes 12 muffins at about 250 calories each

5 comments:

  1. You are in the oven!

    With:

    Frozen bananas collection
    Freshly ground nutmeg
    Vanilla beans from the pod
    Greek style yogurt
    Naturegg egg whites (no yolk)
    Safflower oil
    1/3 an apple since I was missing some banana

    Had extra left over so put in a small glass ovenware hoping for an OK ish big flat muffin

    So proud of myself!

    Heart, Laura, my mentor

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  2. Oops, correction: Sunflower oil

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  3. These truly are the best muffins ever. Trying to think if I have had better... hm, maybe a bran muffin deep in my past, but otherwise, this is the one. Blue ribbon.

    Mmm ah amm.

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