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Tag: Walnuts
Nuts About Bananas…’Banana Muffins’!!
“Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.”
Jim Davis ‘Garfield’
BANANA CHOC-CHIP WALNUT MUFFINS
Makes 12
This is a recipe I have been using for ages…not sure where I got it from, but the kids seem to love these. You can omit the walnuts or chocolate chips if you like, or increase or decrease the quantity as desired.
Preheat oven to 190degC/375degF.
Line a 12 muffin regular tray or grease well.
Ingredients:
Flour – 1 cup
Wholewheat Flour – 1/2 cup
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
utter – 1/4 cup + 1 tbs(60gms)
Bananas – 3 / mashed
Sugar – 1/2 cup
Egg yolks – 2 (Reserve the whites for some other use. Whites freeze well!)
Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
Walnuts – 1/4 cup
Chocolate chips – 1/4 cup
Method :
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Sift the flours + baking soda + baking powder + salt together 3 times. Keep aside.
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Beat together the butter + mashed bananas + sugar + egg yolks + vanilla essence.
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Fold in the sifted ingredients and walnuts and chocolate chips until just mixed in. DO NOT OVERMIX.
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Bake at 190deg C for 20-25mins in a lined or well greased muffin tin.
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Remove and cool on racks immediately to avoid the bottoms getting soggy.
Armenian Nut Cake…with a cookie base!!
And here are pictures of the Armenian Nutmeg Cake. The cake was delicious, though it was a bit small for my 8inch tin. Maybe a smaller tin next time. Also, for some reason I didn’t get the crunchy base, but will definitely try this one again. The nutmeg flavour was awesome, and the cake had a certain ‘warmth‘ to it…great with a cuppa coffee! DH enjoyed it warm and chilled, and the kids loved it warm with a dollop of ice-cream. Here is the recipe from the ‘Esurientes’
Thank you, Niki!!
Quote…
Armenian Nutmeg & Walnut Cake
Adapted from a recipe on the Billington’s Sugar Website
110g self raising flour
110g plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
110g butter
110g Light brown sugar
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
175 ml milk
1 egg, beaten
100g walnuts, chopped
ground cinnamon
This whole cake can be made in a food processor, if you have one-Preheat the oven to Gas 5/190°C/375°F.
-Sift the flours and ½ teaspoon of the ground nutmeg into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
-Stir in the sugar. Press half the mixture into a greased 20cm cake tin.
-Combine the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and stir into the remaining dry ingredients with the egg, another 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and 3/4 of the walnuts, mixing well.
-Pour into the tin and sprinkle over the rest of the nutmeg and walnuts, and some ground cinnamon.
-Cook for about 35 minutes until golden.
-Cool in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to become cold...Unquote
