It is fun to bake when you lot conduct keep a houseful ( inwards my illustration an apartment-full)of kids who appreciate, enjoy, relish as well as tin afford to swallow all the baked goodies! After all, they require unloosen energy to run around! I only dearest it! I had some bananas that were getting create to larn bad as well as decided to brand banana-nut muffins.I usually make banana-nut bread, but muffins are easier to serve, easier to swallow as well as slow to pack for picnics at the park. I threw inwards some chocolate chip for the extra temptation as well as drizzled some to a greater extent than chopped walnuts on top! The lawsuit was an irresistible Banana-nut chocolate-chip muffin. The kids loved it! My boy didn't conduct keep the patience to await to swallow it! He kept maxim "no,no,no" wiggling his cute lilliputian index finger every fourth dimension I laid out to accept a picture! He only wouldn't allow me accept a skillful picture!
I was rattling happy to run into them all gone inwards tape time!
Servings: ii dozen muffins
Ingredients:
Whole wheat flour: ii cups+ 1 tbsp
Baking soda: 1 tsp
Salt:1/4 tsp
Ground cinnamon: ½ tsp
Ground nutmeg: ¼ tsp
Vanilla extract:1 tsp
Butter:1/2 cup
Brown sugar:3/4 cup
Eggs: 3
Overripe bananas: ii cups(4 bananas),mashed
Walnuts:½ loving cup + 1/4 cup,chopped(optional)
Chocolate chips: 1/2cup
Method:
Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Line a muffin tray amongst cupcake liners as well as locomote on aside. If you lot don't conduct keep liners, you lot could only grease it.
Mix 1/4 loving cup of chopped walnuts amongst 1 tbsp flour as well as locomote on aside.
Using a electrical mixer,beat together the butter, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg in a medium bowl until creamy.
Add the banana, as well as eggs, beating until smooth.
Now add together the flour inwards lilliputian past times lilliputian stirring amongst a wooden spoon.
Mix inwards the nuts as well as chocolate chips.
Let it residuum at room temperature, uncovered for 10 minutes.
Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin tray.
Now sprinkle lilliputian fleck of the dry out flour mixed chopped walnuts on locomote past times of each muffin.
Place the tray on the centre rack of the oven as well as bake for 15-20 mins at 350 deg F. or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Take the muffin tray out as well as allow it cool for 10 minutes earlier removing them out onto a rack to cool completely.
Enjoy them warm.
Cooking made easy:
Mixing the nuts amongst the flour prevents it from sinking into the batter.
To brand muffins you lot don't necessarily necessitate an electrical mixer . You could only locomote a elementary whisk. It volition strengthen the arm muscles.;) Just kidding. The truth is in that place is non that much of mixing/ beating involved. The alone matter that you lot conduct keep to worry most is making certain the butter is at room temperature, mixed amongst carbohydrate as well as that the eggs are beaten well. The residuum alone necessitate to hold upwards stirred or mixed gently. Over mixing the batter tin larn far hard.
Tip for salubrious living:
Eating a banana commencement matter inwards the forenoon boosts your metabolism as well as kick-starts your day. It is a wholesome consummate nutrient containing all the essential vitamins as well as minerals.Banana is rich inwards potassium as well as is a known prebiotic.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebiotic_(nutrition)
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/nutrition-vitamins-11/probiotics
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/healthy/prebiotics.shtml
Food for thought:
Don't guess each twenty-four hours past times the harvest you lot reap but past times the seeds that you lot plant. Robert Louis Stevenson