Bringing Out The Muffin Man In You

If have kids and you are anything like me you may often end up, somehow, with several over ripe bananas constantly in the bottom of your fridge or in the fruit bowl. My mum would always make a banana cake with these but I like to make these very simple muffins and the kids love to help. In fact this recipe from www.theworldrecipebook.com uses only one bowl and one wooden spoon in the whole process. Apart from over mixing (which my little boy particularly likes to do with vigour) you can’t really stuff them up.

The kids love to weigh the ingredients as they put them into the bowl. My kids are of the age where as we weigh the ingredients I get them to add the weights together on a piece of paper and we check the final weight against their answers. The whole process only takes 5 mins, really!

So if you find some black or over ripe bananas lying around (you can freeze bananas in a bag for a later date) Crank up the oven and you will have muffins in 1/2hr. These last for 2-3 days in a sealed container in the cupboard. The recipe makes 6 large or 12 small.

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SO gather the kids and heat your oven to 200c
Chocolate chip Banana Muffins

• 60 g Olive Oil or other


• 260 g Self Raising Flour


• 114 g Castor sugar


• 120 mL Milk


• 1 Eggs


• 3 Ripe Bananas


• 200 g Chocolate chips


• 2.5 g Baking powder

1. Put paper muffin cup in muffin tins
2. Into a large mixing bowl put the egg, oil, sugar, chocolate chips, B/Powder, banana's and milk and mix well together
3. Now simply fold in the flour with a spoon until just blended together. Don’t over mix as this may toughen the muffins
4. Spoon into muffin cups and cook for 15-20 min. They should just be firm. Leave in the tins for 5 min before cooling on a wire rack.
5. You can freeze these no problems. Great frozen and into a lunch box, they will be fine by the time it comes to eat them.

Why not start a recipe book that is just for things you and your children make. Collect printed recipes and paste them into a book Kids love a project. Better still take a picture and upload the recipe to The World Recipe Book.com Build you own online recipe book. It’s really easy, registerand start uploading, it’s 100% free and the kids love to see their name in lights.

Remember that cooking is something you and your kids can do together but remember to make it fun. The odd bit of spilt flour should not be a drama. Cooking builds confidence and it’s something (if you keep your recipes) that they will continue with forever.

Enjoy.

By Stephen Smith

www.theworldrecipebook.com
Stephen Smith is a qualified Naturopath, professional chef and a single father of 2 small children.