Banana and Blueberry Muffins

[cathy79]

Recipe Name: Banana and blueberry muffins

Ingredients
1 medium green apple, cored and quartered
2 medium ripe bananas
2 eggs
200 gram yogurt
80 gram olive oil
75 gram honey
210 g self-raising flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Procedure
1. Preheat oven to 190°C/170°C fan-forced. Line twelve 1/3 cup-capacity non-stick muffin holes with large paper cases.

2. Blend the apple to a fine consistency, scraping down a few times.

3. Add banana, eggs, yoghurt, oil and honey.  Mix on speed 4, 10 seconds.

4. Add flour and cinnamon, speed 4, 5 seconds.

4a.  Add the blueberries and fold through with the spatula.

5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden and a skewer inserted into 1 muffin comes out clean.

6. Remove muffins to a wire rack to cool.


Yield: 12

Original Source: Taste Website
Recipe suggested sprinkling rolled oats on top before baking, but they looked raw and didn't belong.  Next time I will Muffin Topping below

Muffin Topping (from Quirky Jo's Rice and Blueberry Cake Recipe)
A handful of almonds chopped for 3 seconds on speed 5.  Add a handful rolled oats, 2 tbs rapadurra and 2 tbs oil and extra cinnamon to taste and mix for 3 seconds on speed 3.
Sprinkle this mixture onto muffins before baking.

Next time I'll use 1/2 wholemeal and 1/2 plain flour and baking powder.  The original is very light and moist, and should adapt well to adding wholemeal flour without becoming dry.

members' comments[/]b

VHJ - love all the fruit in this one. Great job Cathy69 & very timely as my freezer supply of school recess & snack foods is almost depleted.      Thanks. 

ILB -  the mixture is quiet wet - should this be right Cathy? They did drop a bit in height once they were pulled out of the oven but very yummy and better to peel away from the paper the next day. Does anyone else have problems with muffins sticking to the paper cases??

Cathy79 - Yes, the mixture is quite wet and the muffins are very moist.  If you like a firmer muffin, you could add some rolled oats perhaps. I've given up with paper muffin cases as I always loose half the muffin to the case, particularly when very fresh.

Denzelmum - Thanks Cathy, loving this.  I used granny smith apple and frozen blueberry.  Will make again!

 

[Very Happy Jan]

love all the fruit in this one. Great job Cathy69 & very timely as my freezer supply of school recess & snack foods is almost depleted.      Thanks.   

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Cathy! I'm trying to decide if I'm going to make apple and strawberry muffins tomorrow or strawberry and apple tea-cakes Just for lunch boxes....

[Katya]

Thanks Cathy - have been looking for a blueberry muffin recipe for a while now and this looks as if it will be brilliant.

We have people staying over this weekend so I think I'll try it out on them.

[Thermomixer]

Yum - thx CB79  nice and moist sounding little gems

[CreamPuff63]

What is best - this muffin (1 or 2) or bacon and eggs etc?

[cathy79]

What is best - this muffin (1 or 2) or bacon and eggs etc?

I'd go with both.  Savoury first, then sweet.  Can always do mini muffins.

[Katya]

Unfortunately our visitors had to cancel because of illness so I didn't get to make these.  I may try next weekend.

[cookie1]

These sound lovely Cathy. Do you just fold the blueberries through at the end?

[I Love Bimby!]

Made these on Monday night and the mixture is quiet wet - should this be right Cathy? 

They did drop a bit in height once they were pulled out of the oven but very yummy and better to peel away from the paper the next day.

Does anyone else have problems with muffins sticking to the paper cases??

[cathy79]

These sound lovely Cathy. Do you just fold the blueberries through at the end?

Woops missed that.  Yes, I folded through with the spatula.  Will amend.

[cathy79]

Made these on Monday night and the mixture is quiet wet - should this be right Cathy? 

They did drop a bit in height once they were pulled out of the oven but very yummy and better to peel away from the paper the next day.

Does anyone else have problems with muffins sticking to the paper cases??

Yes, the mixture is quite wet and the muffins are very moist.  If you like a firmer muffin, you could add some rolled oats perhaps.

I've given up with paper muffin cases as I always loose half the muffin to the case, particularly when very fresh.  And the girls try to eat them.

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Cathy, i loved the moist muffins, but just wasn't sure if that was how the mixture should have been.

i also used frozen banana out of the freezer and 2 small royal gala apples as that's all I had on hand - plus the frozen blueberries of course 

[Denzelmum]

Thanks Cathy, loving this.  I used granny smith apple and frozen blueberry.  Will make again!