Banana muffins

Muffins are especially popular in the US and UK, where they are often sold in fast food restaurants and coffee shops. Recipes of English and American muffins differ from each other. English muffins made from yeast dough, and into dough for American add soda or baking powder. Very popular are banana and chocolate muffins, as well as muffins with various berries.

Banana muffins

These muffins are made according to the American pattern - with baking powder, even a beginner in the kitchen can cook them. To prepare muffins with a banana, we take:

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  2.5 tbsp. wheat flour
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  0.8 tbsp. small white sugar
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  0,2 tbsp. cane sugar
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  100 g of butter
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  2 bananas
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  2 eggs
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  2 tsp. baking powder

We mix white and cane sugar with butter,add flour, baking powder and eggs, stir again. Bananas mash in mashed potatoes and add to the dough, mix again. Dough for muffins should not be too steep, but not too liquid. If it's too liquid, add the flour until the desired consistency is achieved. Pour the dough into the cake molds, put it in a preheated oven to 200 ° C and bake for 40 minutes. If desired, you can add muffins to raisins, pieces of dried fruits or chocolate.

Banana muffins with chocolate and nuts

If you add chocolate and nuts to banana muffins, they will be much tastier. To bake such muffins, we need to take:

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  350 g of wheat flour
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  300 ml of milk
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  115 g butter + for lubricating the mold
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  100 g of sugar
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  80 g of dark chocolate
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  40 g walnuts
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  2 bananas
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  2 eggs
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  2.5 tsp baking powder
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  salt - to taste

We combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Melt the butter and rub it with eggs, add milk. From bananas we make a puree - a fork or in a blender. Walnuts and chocolate finely chopped. Mix flour mixture with milk, mix the dough. We add banana puree, crushed nuts and chocolate. Molds for cupcakes are lubricated with oil and filled with a test for 2/3. Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C.

Banana muffins with bran

Adherents of a healthy diet can add to bran muffins bran - it will turn out both tasty and useful. To prepare this version of banana muffins we will need:

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  1.5 tbsp. wheat flour
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  1 tbsp. bran
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  0,75 st. Sahara
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  0.5 tbsp. natural yoghurt without additives
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  0.25 tbsp. vegetable oil
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  3 bananas
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  1 egg
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  2 tsp. baking powder
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  0.5 tsp soda
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  0.5 tsp salt
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  0.25 tsp. ground nutmeg

Bananas are cleaned in a blender, we mustget about 1.5 st. banana puree. Mix in a bowl of banana puree with yoghurt, egg, vegetable oil, sugar and bran, leave for 10 minutes. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, soda, salt and nutmeg. We combine dry mixture with banana, mix. Molds for cupcakes are oiled, we spread the dough over them and bake muffins in the oven, preheating it to 190 ° C. Baking time - 20-25 minutes (until golden color), we check the readiness of muffins with a toothpick. Ready muffins let stand for 5 minutes and serve warm.

Bon Appetit!