Banana-manana Muffins

I love a banana muffin. I love one for breakfast, even though there's probably too much sugar in it for early in the day. Sometimes, it just doesn't matter.

I found this great recipe on Taste.com.au, for Warm Banana Muffins with custard, but I was just looking for a plain banana muffin recipe. This one looked great, so I just ignored the "add custard after they've baked" part. And what a great recipe. Simple, easy to put together, and the result? I tend to eat more than one when they come out of the oven. What could be a better recommendation than that!

Banana-manana Muffins! (OK that's just my name for them!)


Combined 1 1/4 cups of self raising flour (or, like I do 1 1/4 cups plain flour & 2 1/2 tsp of baking powder) and 1/2 cup brown sugar in a bowl.



Mash up two ripe bananas.


Mix into the mashed banana, 40gm butter, melted, 1 egg and 1/3 cup milk.


Add it to the dry mixture.


Mix it all up until combined. Spoon into greased muffin tins, or muffin cases in the tin. It should divide well between 4-6 jumbo/Texas muffin tins. I like to make big muffins with this mix, but making smaller ones (more cupcake size) works really well too, and you end up with about 8 muffins. Bake them @ 200C for 25 minutes until browning and cracked on top. Cool in tin for 5 minutes, and then turn out.


Devour!

Because it's a relatively small muffin batch, and due to the fact that you use 2 ripe bananas, the muffin is deliciously banana-centric and really moist.

Kept in an air-tight container, they last well for 3-4 days.

I can't recommend this recipe enough. It is SO good, wonderful, easy and what a result!

Warm Banana Muffins

Ingredients (serves 4)

• 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 40g butter, melted and cooled
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 1/2 cups prepared custard

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease 4 large muffin pans. Combine flour and sugar in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre.
2. Using a fork, whisk butter, egg, milk, and bananas together in a jug. Add to flour mixture and fold together until just combined.
3. Spoon into prepared pans and bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 5 minutes, then transfer to serving plates.

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As an aside, I would like to make a quick apology for the lack of updates. I was so excited when I moved my food blog, and then suddenly Real Life took over in a nasty way. Now that it's settled down somewhat, I'm back posting.

Other things I'm posting in the near future:

• Quick and Easy Chocolate Sauce
• ANZAC Biscuits
• Macaroni Cheese with bacon & mushrooms
• "Glick's Bakery" in Balaclava, Victoria
• "The Chokolait Hub" in Melbourne, Victoria

I can't wait to show you The Chokolait Hub! It's one of the best Chocolaterie's in Melbourne and it's simply delightful.

Upcoming Week

I'm putting together a couple of posts at the moment, but wanted to share with you some of the things that I've cooked this week, and want to share!















I made the most awesome Macaroni and Cheese (with bacon and mushroom) the other night - I was so pleased with it, and it was SOooooo good.

How good does that look!















Here it is as I served it, with green beans on the side. The smokiness of the bacon and earthiness of the mushrooms really worked with the creamy sauce that coated the pasta. I like topping my Mac'n'Cheese with breadcrumbs mixed with cheddar cheese.



Chocolate Cupcakes with Mint Frosting. MMMMmmmmmm. The Best, Moistest Cupcake recipe EVER. They last for days (although who let's them last that long!!) in a container. I made a batch to take to my sister's house over the weekend, and these are from a batch I made a little while ago to take to a friends house for Afternoon Tea.

Also yesterday, I came across a Jewish bakery in the next suburb that does the BEST bagels EVER. SO GOOD. I'm thinking I have to go back there this afternoon to get more, because we ate the bag of bagels we brought home already! Maybe tomorrow morning...

Welcome to Blooming Good Food!

Welcome to Blooming Good Food! What's with the title, I hear you ask. Well, I'm an Aussie, and it's one way of saying something's great, or awesome, fantastic, insert any word along these lines :)

I love food, and I've really enjoyed sharing some recipes on my lifestyle blog A City Girl Goes Country, but I came to the realisation that my blog wasn't actually suppose to be a food blog. So I created a new one, specifically for food. And this is it. So, I'm going to import some of my other posts over here, and create a beautiful new space for sharing good food! The posts will be back-dated over the last month or so, so have a good look around :)