Banana Muffins

What do you do with all those old banana's you get left over??  I hate throwing them away, so today converted a few of them into loverly Banana muffins.  and I know they don't look as good as those muffins in the shops, but my oven being a fan oven tends to blow em into funny shapes..  still taste good though :)

 

Ingredients for this Recipe
(for 12 Muffins)

250g Self Raising Flour
80g Melted Butter (I tend to use 50g butter, 30g Margerine, but only cause I'm stingy)
140g White Sugar 
Pinch Salt 
1 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
1 Tsp Vanilla Flavouring
2 Eggs
120Ml Milk
3 small bananas or 2 large ones

Instructions

You'll need a weighing scales, muffin tin, muffin cases and a food processor (or a big bowl and a good arm heh)


  First Mash up your banana in a bowl on it's own, looks great don't it heh. Try not to spoon this into a sandwich and eat it, you'll be needing this for your muffins.
 
 
 Mix up all the dry ingredients briefly, just to make sure all the powders are mixed up and you don't get clumps of cinnamon or anything.
 
   Now melt the butter and add into the processor (or bowl if your doing it the hard way lol)
add in the milk, vanilla, eggs and process until it mixes up nicely (this will not take long.)
 
   When it's mixed, throw in the banana and give it a quick stir, you don't want to cut up all the banana, so just a quick whizz or a quick stir to get it mixed in.  It should hopefully look something like the photo shown by now :)  if it's too thick then add a little more milk, too runny then add a little more flour.
 
   Now you need to turn your oven on, put it on about 180, you may have to play around with this, all ovens seem to be different.  so you may need a few trial runs to find out what your oven likes.  
Spoon the mix evenly into 12 cases and put in the oven for about 20 mins, or until golden on top.
 
  

When you think they are done you can given them a quick test with a skewer to make sure they are cooked inside.  You'll know if they are done if the skewer comes out clean, and not covered in un-cooked mix.  be aware with these muffins that sometimes the skewer looks like it has uncooked mix on, when it has in fact got banana on it heh. fooled me a few times :)

If they are done, they put them out on to a cooling rack and try not to burn yourself when you try to eat it straight out of the oven.  You know you will.. I still do, i'll never learn..