Believe it or not, I hate banana. I can’t stand it…. unless it’s in banana bread. For some reason that makes it all ok! I also like the idea that it is a kind of healthy cake…… or I like to pretend it is anyway. I have a recipe that uses honey instead of sugar to sweeten, and that makes me feel better about eating it!
Now that Piglet is 1 we are starting to introduce honey into his diet. I made these muffins for him the other day and, after I managed to get them away from my Dad (who ate 3 in quick succession), he definitely seemed to enjoy snacking on them. Even my youngest nephew who apparently “doesn’t like cake” scoffed down 1 and a half. So clearly I’m not the only fan in this family!
If you are making this for a child under the age of one you can replace the honey with golden syrup – but it does sort of remove the illusion of them being healthy 😉
Ingredients
- 3 Bananas – the riper the better as it makes them easier to mash
- 2 Eggs
- 125g Greek Yoghurt
- 115g Honey
- 1tsp Vanilla Extract
- 180g Plain Flour
- 1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- Optional – Handful Dark Chocolate Chips
For 12 large muffins.
Method
- Preheat the oven to 175C
- Pop the bananas in a bowl and mash them up with a fork. It’s a pest – but mash them really well if you want to avoid chunks of banana in the muffins
- Add the eggs into the bananas and whisk them up. I’m lazy and use the electric whisk (similar from the USA)
but you can do it by hand too.
- Add in the Greek yoghurt, honey and vanilla extract and beat the mixture again. At the point it looks weird and sloppy. It’s meant to – I promise.
- Sieve the flour over the top of the wet mixture and add the bicarbonate of soda. You should then fold in the dry ingredients. I say fold, rather than mix, as it maintains the air in your mixture. Continue to fold until all of the flour is combined.
- Grease a muffin tin. I don’t recommend using paper cases as the amount of moisture in muffins means they will stick to the paper. Silicon cases
(also available in the USA
) work well though if you particularly like a case.
- Distribute the mixture evenly between the muffin tin. It is sometimes helpful to use an ice cream scoop to do this bit!
- If you would like, drop a few chocolate chips onto the top of the muffins for an extra treat!
- Bake for around 20 minutes, until the muffins have risen and started to set. Remove from the muffin tin and set aside to cool.
- Serve either warm or cold.
but you can do it by hand too.
) work well though if you particularly like a case.