Banana, Honey and White Chocolate Muffins

Round one of Quiz Night was - list all the ingredients I used to bake the muffins.

Both teams missed out a few of the answers - so here's what I did.

In a large bowl mix together:
375g self-raising flour
220g caster sugar

In a small bowl mix together:
90g melted butter
half cup sour cream
quarter cup honey
2 large eggs
vanilla essence

Mix the wet into the dry then stir in:
half cup white chocolate chunks
half cup mashed ripe banana

Divide the mixture between 12 muffin cases
Bake on Gas 5/6 for 20-25 minutes
Leave in the tin for a couple of minutes before removing onto a wire rack to cool.

Banana, Honey and White Chocolate Muffins

Well this is my 150th post - not what I had in mind when I started this blogging a few years ago, but it's always furn to be dong something unexpected.
In that time I have had over 7700 visitors from 64 countries around the globe, so I may as well keep baking and mixing new flavour combos as I go because it seems the whole world loves muffins. 

In a large bowl mix together:
375g self-raising flour
220g caster sugar

In small bowl mix together:
90g melted butter
half cup sour cream
quarter cup runny honey
2 large eggs

Mix the wet into the dry then stir in:
half cup mashed banana
100g white chocolate chunks

Divide the mixture between 12 muffin cases
Bake on Gas 5/6
For 20-25 mins
Leave in the tin for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool

Banana and Honey Muffins

Well something weird has just happened to my muffins - they look more like Yorkshire Puddings, I presume the problem has arisen because the mixture was quite wet, and I left them to stand before putting them in the oven, while I waited for the previous batch to cook! Normally once the eggs are added you need to get them into the oven quite quickly because of some scientific reason that I do not understand, but now believe entirely. Maybe the eggs prefer to be turned into Yorkshire Pudding rather than Muffins!

Any way here is the recipe for the muffin on the right - the one with the nose:

In a large bowl mix together:

375g self raising flour

220g caster sugar 

In a small bowl mix together:
90g melted butter (45 seconds in the microwave should do it!)

half a cup of sour cream

quarter cup of milk

2 large eggs

Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ones

Add two thirds cup of mashed bananas
one third cup of honey 

 

Divid between 12 muffin cases 
Bake Gas 5/6 
20 - 25 mins
leave to cool on a wire tray

Cup-of-tea Muffins.

I had a Spring clean today - I realise it's Autumn, but I've never been one to do things when I was expected too! Anyway, I discovered as I sorted out my pantry that I had 10 different boxes of teas. So I finished off my 'Breakfast Teapigs' which left 9, then I decided I had better bake a cup-of-tea loaf. But that would mean waiting a very long time for it to bake and cool enough to sample, so instead I turned to muffins.
I used Sultanas soaked in Honey Blush Teapigs, which are honey and Red Bush tea. Any tea will do, I just use my regular Tetley decaf when I make a tea loaf!

Firstly make a cup of strong tea using 3 tea bags.
Then put one cup of sultanas in a bowl and pour the tea over, so that the fruit soaks up the flavour of the tea. Leave this for half an hour if possible.

In a small bowl melt 90g butter.
Add half a cup of sour cream, quarter cup of milk, 2 large eggs

In a large bowl mix together
375g self raising flour, 90g demerera sugar, 130g castor sugar

Add the wet to the dry ingredients
mix together

Drain off the tea from the sultanas and add the sultanas to the batter.
mix together.
Divide between 12 muffin cases
Bake on Gas 5/6
for 20-25 minutes

I hope they'll taste lovely with another cup of tea later on.