Banana & walnut muffins
I made some muffins this week! I had a great recipe I'd found a few months back for banana & walnut muffins, but Peter's computer crashed, and all my recipes were on it :-( (all fixed now) So I searched the internet hoping to find the recipe (as I had originally got it off the internet) - but no luck. I found this recipe instead though:
Banana & Walnut Muffins (12)
½ cup oats
30ml milk (I used oat milk)
3 ripe bananas
240g SR flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 tbsp honey
1 egg (I used No-Egg)
85g crushed walnuts
In a small bowl soak the oats in the milk. In a separate bowl mash the bananas and set aside. Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl. Add sugar, honey and eggs and mix well. Add the mashed banana, walnuts and oats, including the milk. Mix well. Pour mixture into a greased muffin tray. Cook in a moderate oven for approximately 20 minutes.
And they were very yummy. Less fluffy than the other recipe, and Peter said a bit less sweet (but that would be because the other recipe had a brown sugar/walnut mix on top of them!). You might even say they were sturdy - definitely more filling :-) And, when I thought about it, much healthier - they are quite low in fat (only the small amount of milk - and in the case of oat milk, that means pretty much no fat), and the sugars they use (brown sugar & honey) are less refined than white sugar. You could probably label these diabetic muffins, in fact! So, i think I'll probably use this recipe in future...
Banana & Walnut Muffins (12)
½ cup oats
30ml milk (I used oat milk)
3 ripe bananas
240g SR flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 tbsp honey
1 egg (I used No-Egg)
85g crushed walnuts
In a small bowl soak the oats in the milk. In a separate bowl mash the bananas and set aside. Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl. Add sugar, honey and eggs and mix well. Add the mashed banana, walnuts and oats, including the milk. Mix well. Pour mixture into a greased muffin tray. Cook in a moderate oven for approximately 20 minutes.
And they were very yummy. Less fluffy than the other recipe, and Peter said a bit less sweet (but that would be because the other recipe had a brown sugar/walnut mix on top of them!). You might even say they were sturdy - definitely more filling :-) And, when I thought about it, much healthier - they are quite low in fat (only the small amount of milk - and in the case of oat milk, that means pretty much no fat), and the sugars they use (brown sugar & honey) are less refined than white sugar. You could probably label these diabetic muffins, in fact! So, i think I'll probably use this recipe in future...