Had some over ripe bananas with me and had nothing to do with them. So, I took Nigella Lawson’s book out and found this wonderfully aromatic recipe. My whole house is smelling like a mixture of caramelized bananas and brown sugar, lovin’ it!
Wanna make banana muffins but don’t know what are ripe bananas well, they look like this.
Got this recipe from Nigella Lawson’s book “KITCHEN”. She’s more than a wonderful cook. And her muffins are even better. Not sweet enough for my oh-so=sweet sweet tooth so, I iced them with glace icing hehe You should too.
What you need>>>
Overripe bananas—————– 3
Brown sugar———————- 100g
Eggs—————————— 2
Flour—————————– 225 g
Baking soda———————- 1 tsp
Oil——————————- 125 ml
Cocoa powder——————– 3 tbsp
How it’s made>>>
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 C.
- Line muffins tray with muffin cases and set aside.
- Sieve together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda and set aside.
- Now mash bananana with a fork and add oil and eggs to it and continur mashing and mixing, till everything is well mixed.
- Once done, now add the sifted flour mix. to the banana and egg mix and beat lightly.
- Add flour in three batches and beat lightly after every batch so that no lumps of flour are formed.
- Now pour the batter into the cases, half full and bake for 15 – 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool slightly in the tray before removing to a wire rack.
Note:
You can make the muffins 1 day ahead and store them in an air tight container. Or freeze them in an airtight container, layered with baking paper, for up to 2 months. Defrost for 3 – 4 hours on a wire rack at room temperature and warm them in the oven for 5 – 8 minutes.
Hi Leemz!
Listen, I have a cooling rack
but it doesn’t have feet to lift it off the surface
so can I like place a bowl or something underneath it
and it’ll still be perfectly OK or no?
It musn’t be a cooling rack then, it would be a coaster to place hot pans on glass tables or something. The purpose of cooling rack is to allow air flow (duh! 😛 ) Umm you can get cooling racks easily from Main market.
Other than that placing a sturdy bowl can do the job just fine, insha Allah!
Umm no, but it is a cooling rack… not a coaster
cuz it does have the stainless steel grills and everything
thats how a cooling rack looks like right?
Absolutely but if it doesn’t have legs that means the cakes won’t be cooled quickly, as it is not allowing cross ventilation. Maybe it’s for placing hot pots or pans or something. Try it and we’ll know because I have no clue what good it is for 🙂
Haha yeah, that’s why I’ll use something to lift it off the surface…
to allow airflow 🙂
Anyway, can you tell me how to make the icing you used?
And what are those chocolate shavings thingies on the top?
It is called the Glace Icing. Take 1 cup of Icing sugar and add around 1 tsp of water gradually to make a thick consistency. Add 1/2 tsp of lemon juice for flavor but be careful not to add too much water otherwise the icing will be too thin and watery. Pour over the muffins,it will soon solidify and then enjoy 🙂
Chocolate shavings are basically, thinly sliced chocolate pieces. Take your chocolate slab in your palm, hold it vertical and with a sharp knife thinly slice the chocolate, starting from top to the end of the chocolate slab. If your chocolate will be cold, you’ll be better shavings.
i have made these muffins quite a few times and they are really good…especially instead of throwing away soft bananas u can use them like this and they are very delicious esp. with cream…good job leemz