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Banana Muffins

Notes

Please refer to recipe in the post below as I am just lazy. Remember muffins are very forgiving. Just give it a go. 

The weather in UK has suddenly dropped to a low single digit this morning. My area was just 3*C So I decided to turn the oven on. Kinda a frugal wife style of two birds one stone.

As I was mixing up the ingredients, dry and wet it suddenly dawned on me that it is not that much different from making cekodok pisang! Being of a curious nature; I do know curiosity kills the cat, I spent a happy afternoon researching. I found some interesting read on who invented the muffin —-> here As for who and when was the first recorded jemput-jemput pisang or cekodok pisang, no one knows.

Normally when I make muffins I have only 1 rule. Separate the dry and wet ingredients! Then mix lightly with gentle touch and do not overmix them. Your muffins will turn out all right then. Needless to say if you are hankering for a cakey bite, muffins are the easiest to make. The batter will be slightly thicker than cekodok pisang.

If you do want to make a simple cekodok pisang there is a not too shabby recipe here

In this bake my Dry ingredients are 2 cups of cake flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp cinnamon powder and generous pinch of salt.

My Wet ingredients are 3 – 4 large bananas meshed, 100g of melted butter, 100g of muscovado sugar, 1 tsp vanilla essence, 1 tsp vanilla bean, 1 large egg and 2 – 3 tbsp of milk.

Optional ingredients are of course, chocolate chips, dried fruits nuts but today I just top with a cross section slice of banana for non other reason than aesthetic only and maybe also because I like the taste.

TIP – Do not worry about how fine to mash you banana because it is rather nice to have a bite and finds some bits of banananananananana

Update – 17th October – I forgot to say bake in a 180C oven for 30 minutes. Do the skewer test please.

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Cheese and Bacon muffins

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

• 250 g Self raising flour
• 1 tsp Double action baking powder
• Scant tsp Salt
• Pinch Turmeric or paprika
• Pinch Pepper
• 200 g Grated strong cheese (I like a mix of matured cheddar and parmesan
• 5 to 6 slices Streaky bacon pan fry till crispy and chopped finely

Wet Ingredients

• 2 eggs Beaten well
• 200 ml Full cream milk
• 100 ml Melted butter

Instructions

• First get the bacon fried, chopped and ready.
• Next grate the cheeses
• Then add both the bacon and cheeses to the flours, spices, salt, baking powder aka dry ingredients and gives everything a good mix. Set aside
• Then in another bowl beat the eggs well and add in the milk and butter. Sometimes I lessen the milk and mix some double cream, It is entirely up to you. Instead of butter you can use any unflavoured oil too.
• Make a well in the centre of your dry ingredients and pout in your wet ingredients. Now gives it all a gentle mix, emphasizing on the word GENTLE. Overmix will give you HARD balls – kekekekeke
• Scope mixture into 12 butter brushed muffins tins. Only put the muffins into the paper cases when baked and cooled. OR if you have waxed muffin boxes, you can use them. This is because they stick to the paper cases.
• Preheat oven to 180C for fan assisted oven and 200C for convectional oven and bake for about 25 minutes checking to see top is nicely golden. Make a note on your cookbook your time.

Notes

TIP – It is ok to have some flours not mixed in. Do not worry. It is better to undermix rather than overmix.

TIP – You can add chives, spring onions, green peas but make sure these are dry, like do not use peas from frozen. Do not add too much and go overboard.

TIP – If your bacon is very salty type do not use salt. 

TIP – A happy boy is one who sees a square of bacon on top of these muffins so adjust your bacon accordingly. 

Firstly lets deal with the bacon – Place on pan, covered with another pan and into hot oven to crisps up. I used tin foil because no washing up. You can also fry them but that will mean more washing up! hahahahahahaha

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