Banana Crumble Muffins

Ingredients

Muffins Batter:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

1 ½ tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp powdered ginger

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup vegetable oil/canola oil

1/2 c chopped walnuts (if you like)

Crumble Topping:

1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter

Preheat oven to 375^o F

In a medium sized bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; lightly whisk together to mix dry ingredients.

In large bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and the oil. Slowly add the dry mixture in and beat on low.

In yet another bowl, mix together brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.

Lightly grease, or line, muffin pan with muffin papers.

½ fill with batter and then sprinkle with crumble mixture.

Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

Makes 12 Good Sized Muffins 

Happy Feasting!

Cream cheese filled Carrot muffins

I found this recipe on line ages ago and wrote it down.  I've since lost the link so I can't give credit where credit is fully due but here it is none-the-less.

Preheat oven to 350.

Sift together 1½ c. all-purpose flour, 1½ tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp.baking powder, ½ tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cardamom, 1 tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. nutmeg, and 1 c. sugar.

In a separate bowl, beat 3 eggs and 2/3 cup vegetable oil until lightened. Stir in 1½ c. shredded carrots, ½ c. chopped walnuts, and ½ c. raisins that have been soaked for 10 minutes in hot water (or warmed rum, if you’d like).

In another bowl, cream 4 oz. softened cream cheese with 1 egg yolk (add the egg white to the carrot cake batter to make it really moist) , ½ c. sugar, and ½ tsp. vanilla.

Fold the dry ingredients into the egg/oil mixture. Stir until just combined.

Fill mini-muffin cups about 1/2 full, add a spoon of the cream cheese, and then another spoon of the carrot cake batter.


Bake about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake part comes out clean.

Happy Feasting!

Kitchen Basics

Do you ever get a thought in your head that there's something you need to get, you pick it up, and then when you get home you realize you actually do have it?

I obviously need to make a mental note that I do not need to buy muffin cups FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.

I'm getting ready to make some muffins to take to work tomorrow (recipe to follow) but not 300 (insert Gerard Butler joke here ... "Tonight we dine on MUFFINS")

Happy Feasting!