Banana Muffins
Servings 16 Muffins
Ingredients
- 75 g melted butter
- 250 g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- 115 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ripe bananas
- 2 medium eggs
- 125 ml milk
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5 and put paper cases into a muffin tin.
- Melt the butter and allow to cool. Mash the bananas well. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a large bowl, add caster sugar and stir through.
- Beat together the eggs, vanilla extract, melted butter and milk in a second bowl. Add the mashed banana and stir through.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the egg mixture, stirring roughly until it is a lumpy paste.
- Then spoon the mixture into the cases until almost full. Top each one a slice of banana
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until the muffins come away from the side of the pan when touched. Rest the muffin tray on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then remove the muffins and leave on the rack for another 5 minutes before serving.