Banana and Cinnamon Muffins

I'm so pleased the snow has gone! It was awesome at first. I had 2 and a half snow days off from work, staying inside drinking hot chocolate. After a while though, you do get kind of bored, and the road outside our flat was perilious. This weekend I'm making banana and cinnamon muffins! I needed something to bake that the boyfriend can put in his lunch box for work. (Well that was the request any way!)

Dinosaur cake cases


I've adapted the recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery cookbook that I received for Christmas (thanks mum and dad).

Ingredients

350g plain wholewheat flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
1 1/2 tsps bicarbonate of soda
2 tsps ground cinnamon
1 tsp grated nutmeg
160g caster sugar
375ml buttermilk
1 egg
70g unsalted butter, melted
400g mashed bananas

pre heat the oven to 170 degrees. Put the flour, salt, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl, mix. Measure out the buttermilk into a jug, and add the egg, then whisk to combine. Slowly pour this into the dry ingredients, mixing as you go. You could use an electric whisk on slow, but you don't want to over beat the mixture. A wooden spoon is just fine! Pour in the melted butter and mix til combined. Followed by the mashed up bananas. Mashing the bananas was incredibly satisfying by the way!

Spoon the mixture into muffin cases, and sprinkle with some demerara sugar and cinnamon. bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.

The sugar on top, gave it a nice crunch


This one was "chefs treat"

These did work really well, and were moist and banana-ry. Hopefully they'll go down well in the lunch box tomorrow.