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Banana muffins
Submitted by: melissaG4043
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Banana muffins
Submitted by: melissaG4043
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Banana muffins
Submitted by: melissaG4043
- Prep time:
- 15 mins
- Cook time:
- 20 mins
- Serves:
- makes 12 muffins
Jane Asher whips up some wholesome banana muffins, ideal for summer picnics, tea parties or breakfast on-the-run. Hold your own Blooming Great Tea Party to support Marie Curie Cancer
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Ingredients
For the muffins
- 250g self-raising flour
- 150g caster sugar
- 75g fine bran
- 2 large ripe Bananas
- 2 Eggs, lightly beaten
- 3 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 150ml Milk
For the icing
- 1/2 Orange, juice only
- 6 heaped tbsp icing sugar
Method
1. For the muffins: preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.2. Tip the flour, sugar and oat bran into a large mixing bowl and form a well in the centre.
3. In another bowl, use a fork or potato masher to mash the bananas, then mix in the eggs, oil and milk.
4. Pour the banana mixture into the dry ingredients. Using a wooden spoon, stir everything together for a few seconds until only just combined but still quite lumpy. The lumps will disappear during baking. This is the secret to lovely, light muffins - don’t be tempted to keep mixing or they will become heavy.
5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
6. Let the muffins cool for 2 minutes in the tin, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
7. For the icing: add enough orange juice to the icing sugar to make a smooth paste.
8. Drizzle the orange icing over the muffins and leave to set before serving.
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View all comments (7)Simple, easy and delicious - Prep time is about 7 minutes if you are organised !
I made these yesterday, I added some walnuts and pecans. I had a pretty runny icing, they were nice yesterday. However left 24 hours they r even better, with a nice sticky top. A bit like a lemon drizzle cake.
Love the taste of the muffins but they keep sticking to the paper muffin cases! Any ideas about how to stop it?
WOOHOO i've just made these & they are so light and full of flavour! I used the tip of adding a drop of vanilla essence and tsp of ground cinnamon to the recipe, from the comment below. Cheers Krystyna it worked well. The amount of Oranges is definitely not right, i used less than half the juice of half an orange. The icing is worth the effort though, as it's very tasty! And i used/brought oat bran and it worked fine. HAPPY BAKING!!!
I just made a batch of these I ONLY got 10 large. Very Light in texture My changes. I did NOT have any Bran so I increased amount of Self Raising Flour by 50 grams. I also added 1 tspn ground cinnamon & 1 tspn vanilla extract Both of these spices DID NOT EFFECT FLAVOUR NOR did I have any Oranges SO I used Mandarin Juice instead. I found 1/2 juice of fruit TOO MUCH so I had to increase amount of ICING SUGAR to get paste consistency BUT my partner has now devoured 4 before they have had time to cool So they must be OK -GREAT EASY RECIPE
Interesting recipe, but is oat bran the same as fine bran? Really keen to make them, but don't want to buy the wrong thing.
I noticed this recipe doesnt ask for bicarbonate of soda or baking powder - will this make a difference to the outcome of the texture, compared to other recipes that do insist? Thanks