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honey banana muffins

Honey Banana Muffins

Banana Muffins with no sugar, but the natural sweetness from overripe bananas and honey, a simple recipe, which your kids (and you) will love!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 9 piece

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup Maida all purpose flour /
  • 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder heaped
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder (use cardamom powder for a variation)
  • 2 bananas large very ripe
  • 3 tbsps honey (generous)
  • 2 tbsps unsalted butter (i used salted butter and omitted the extra salt)
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsps nuts finely chopped mixed and a little more for topping
  • pinch salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 175 C/ 350 F.
  • Sieve the flours with baking soda and baking powder into a large bowl. Add cinnamon / cardamom powder to it and keep aside.
  • Mash the bananas with a fork and keep aside.
  • Melt the butter in a saucepan on very low heat. Spoon the honey and vanilla essence into the melted butter and pour this butter mixture into the mashed bananas. Mix the finely chopped nuts into this.
  • Add the above mixture to the prepared flour. Just mix them gently until you have "a not terribly attractive lumpy sludge, but don't worry about it."
  • Spoon the mixture into a well greased / 'lined with paper cups' muffin tray. This mixture yeilded me 9 medium to large muffins. Rather i force fitted the entire batter into my 9 cup muffin tray. You could spread them over 12. Top each cup with a little sprinking of nuts.
  • Bake for 20 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Cool and serve with tea or for breakfast.

Notes

Notes:
Result: Compared to what people have to say- I had a pretty good bunch of mufffins. I don't know if the different result was due to the mixture of flours or the kind of bananas used. They were soft and springy. I rather prefer the subtle sweetness of honey to the overt sugary sweetness. The nuts added a nice crunch and the banana-cinnamon flavours are anyway an all time favourite. I made another batch the very next day, in which I added some mueseli into the batter. They turned out fine too! It's worth a try for sure.
Modification: I modified the 1 cup AP flour into 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup AP flour to make it atleast half healthier. Also, I added a couple of tablespoons of finely chopped mixed nuts into the batter as well as for a little crunchy garnish on the top.