Bourbon Banana Muffins
A tried and tested foolproof method of baking perfect muffins at home.
Ingredients
- 400 g Unbleached Cake Flour
- 4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/4 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of soda
- 4 Large Bananas
- 150 g Caster Sugar
- 60 g Brown Sugar
- 200 g Salted Butter cold and diced
- 3 Teaspoons Vanilla extract or good quality essence
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons Bourbon optional
- 2 Eggs extra large
- 30 ml Oil vegetable
- 70% Dark chocolate optional
- Nuts of choice
- Brown Sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Peel thebananas and add in a medium baking bowl.
- Sprinkle 60g brown sugar, add bourbon and vanilla essence or extract.
- Seal the bowl with foil, and roast for 30 minutes.
- Mash until all is combined. Then leave to cool completely.
- Sieve the flour into a large mixing bowl. Add baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and sugar. Mix well.
- Add the butter and cut it into the flour using a pastry cutter (or a large firm fork or fingertips), until the mixture roughly resembles a crumb texture, if there are visible large butter pieces left, use your fingertips to break/rub them into the flour mixture.
- Make a well in the centre.
- Whisk the eggs and add in the banana mash, whisk until well combined.
- Add oil and mix.
- Add everything inside the well of the flour mixture, and whisk to combine everything. Using a whisk and spatula.
- Cover the batter and let it rest for 1 hour. Resting the batter for at least an hour, will help the muffins to rise and dome.
- Coat jumbo/large muffin pans with baking spray.
- Add the batter into the muffin pans about 2/3 of the batter for each muffin. if you will use the nuts and chocolate, add half of the batter, sprinkle nuts and batter. add the other half of the batter, add more nuts and chocolate.
- I used a medium and large ice cream scoops.
- Sprinkle brown sugar for a nice crunchy top.
- Bake the muffins for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the centre.
- Let the muffins cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then carefully remove and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
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