As mentioned before I've been baking a LOT with apples these past few weeks. These muffins came about as I had 1 ripe banana and some apples to use up. I started with a banana and apple muffin and decided to add in raisins, nuts, spice and a streusel topping. The result was a wonderfully delicious and fragrant muffin which made for a perfect breakfast on the go.
I'm sending this to the No Waste Food Challenge guest hosted by Jen from Jen's Food this month on behalf of Elizabeth from Elizabeth' s Kitchen Diary.
Makes 15 muffins
For the streusel topping
25g flour
85 demerara sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
50g cold butter
25g pecans, chopped
For the muffins
100g brown sugar
50g caster sugar
220g plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon mixed spice
60mls milk
1 ripe banana
80mls vegetable oil
2 large free range eggs
1 pot (165g) Muller light banana and custard yoghurt (or vanilla or apple flavour)
2 apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
100g raisins
75g pecans, roughly chopped
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Line 2 muffin trays with 15 muffin liners.
- Make the streusel topping by mixing all the ingredients in a bowl by hand. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix the sugars, flour, bicarbonate, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice.
- In a separate bowl, lightly beat the eggs and add in the mashed bananas, vegetable oil, milk ad yoghurt.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients. Stir until just mixed.
- Add in the apples, raisins and pecans and mix.
- Divide the mixture evenly between the muffin cases.
- Top with streusel topping and bake in the pre heated oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer insertedinto the centre comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in the tray for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.