Date, Orange and Banana Muffins
Ingredients
150 g plain flour
80 g wholemeal plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
160 g pitted dates chopped in TMX for 10 seconds, sp 8
1 medium sized orange
2 eggs
110 g brown sugar
125 mls olive oil
2 medium bananas
125 mls orange juice
1 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
pitted dates chopped in half for topping
Method
* Preheat oven 200C
* Put both flours, baking powder, bicarb soda, salt and nutmeg in
. Sift together, 10 sec - sp 6
* Put aside in a large bowl and stir through the chopped dates
* Roughly chop orange and place in
10 sec - sp 8. Scrape down
and repeat until you have a rough textured puree
* Add eggs, brown sugar, oil, bananas, orange juice and vanilla bean paste/extract. Sp 5 - 15 sec or until well combined
* Pour orange mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. (You could do this in the TMX, I just find I get a better textured muffin doing it by hand)
* The mixture will be quite wet, let it sit for a couple of minutes and it will firm up
* Place batter into greased muffin holes, top with a halved date
* Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden.
Converted from a Belinda Jeffery recipe.
Made 17 medium sized muffins.
