Banana muffins - an airy, delicate treat in the form of small cupcakes. The treat is prepared surprisingly simply and quickly, it does not require the purchase of expensive products. Ideal for quickly assembled tea.
Muffins with banana - the general principles of cooking
Cooking banana muffins does not take much time and does not require special knowledge and skills. The main thing is to strictly follow the recommendations:
• The dough for the muffins is kneaded as follows: first, all the liquid ingredients are whipped, the loose components are mixed in another container, and then all is gently mixed. Further, pureed bananas and other supplementary products are already introduced: chocolate, candied fruits, nuts, dried fruits, berries or fruits.
• As a basis for air muffins, you can take what is in the refrigerator: milk, yogurt, kefir, sour cream, cottage cheese.
• The required ingredients for the dough are eggs, sugar, and a ripper (soda or baking powder). In lean baking, flax flour can become a binder.
• Bananas can be added to the dough not only in a puree form, but also cut into small pieces. In addition, bananas can be chopped into circles and put directly into the mold itself, then pour the prepared dough.
• Bake the muffins in a preheated oven for 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the recipe. Molds can be metal, silicone or special paper, in any case they will need to be oiled. If you use paper forms - expose them for stability on the baking sheet.
• Ready-made muffins with banana are taken out of the forms only in the cooled form. Decorate products, follow your own taste preferences: powdered sugar, coconut or chocolate chips, icing, confectionery dressing, fruit pieces and berries, etc.
Recipe 1. Classic muffins with banana
Ingredients: • two bananas;
• two eggs;
• 250 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 80 grams of butter;
• a pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp. cinnamon (or to taste);
• 1 tsp. soda
How to cook:
1. Peel bananas, put the pulp in a large bowl and knead with a fork.
2. In another container, beat the softened butter with sugar.
3. Without ceasing to beat, we introduce eggs into the oil mixture.
4. Mix the bananas with an oil-egg mass.
5. Sift flour, mix with salt, soda and cinnamon.
6. Pour the dry mixture into the banana dough. Mix thoroughly, then whip.
7. Lubricate the muffin molds with butter, spread the prepared dough in them, taking up 2/3 of the volume.
8. Bake the muffins in the oven preheated to 185 degrees for 20 minutes.
Recipe 2. Chocolate Banana Muffins
Ingredients:
• one and a half glasses of flour;
• a glass of sugar;
• three large bananas;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• 1 tsp. baking powder;
• a quarter pack of butter;
• two Art. l natural cocoa;
• 100 grams of condensed milk;
• dark or milk chocolate bar.
Cooking:
1. Immediately heat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Whip sugar in a small bowl with eggs and vegetable oil.
3. Add bananas in a blender or with a fork, mix.
4. In another bowl, mix flour with cocoa and baking powder.
5. Combine the flour and banana mixture, beat.
6. Fill the butter molds for 2/3, bake for 15 minutes.
7. In the meantime, prepare a chocolate icing for banana muffins.
8. We break the chocolate bar into pieces, lay it in a small cauldron, heat it up.
9. Add the butter and, stirring all the time, bring the glaze on a slow fire until homogeneous.
10. Remove the ready muffins from the oven, let them cool completely in the molds.
11. Carefully place the mini-cupcakes on a plate, pour chocolate icing.
Recipe 3. Curd Muffins with Banana
Ingredients:
• two or three bananas (depending on size); • 250 grams of cottage cheese;
• 3/4 cup of sugar;
• baking powder bag;
• two eggs;
• cups of flour;
• a pinch of salt;
• to taste vanilla;
• 150 grams of sweet butter.
Cooking Method:
1. Put the peeled bananas in the blender bowl, grind.
2. Put cottage cheese in a bowl, rub with a fork until softened.
3. In another bowl, beat the sugar with the eggs, add the cottage cheese and melted and cooled butter. Whisk.
4. Add bananas to the egg mixture, add salt, vanilla, baking powder. Stir.
5. Slowly pour flour into the dough, stir vigorously or beat.
6. Distribute the banana dough in the greased molds, bake the product for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 4. Banana Muffins with Walnuts
Ingredients:
• 330 grams of flour;
• 1.5 Art. l baking powder;
• 1/2 cup sugar;
• half a pack of butter;
• two bananas;
• 300 ml of milk;
• two eggs;
• 50 grams of walnuts (crushed with crumb);
• 60 grams of dark chocolate.
How to cook:
1. Mix the sifted flour with baking powder, salt and sugar.
2. Butter butter melt in the microwave, cool, combine with eggs.
3. Pour milk into the oil mixture, beat.
4. Pulp bananas fingered with a blender or fork.
5. Mix the liquid base with the flour mixture, not forgetting to mix thoroughly, so as not to form flour lumps.
6. Add banana puree, chopped chocolate and walnuts into small pieces in the dough.
7. Spoon the dough into the molds, filling it about 2/3 of the volume.
8. Bake at 190 degrees for 20 minutes.
Recipe 5. Lenten muffins with banana
Ingredients:
• a glass (maybe a little more) of flour;
• 60 grams of margarine;
• 1 tsp. baking powder;
• 0.5 tsp. salts;
• 100 grams of sugar (brown);
• 100 grams of sugar (normal);
• large banana;
• 1 tbsp. l flax flour;
• 1 tsp. vanilla;
• two Art. l water;
• 150 grams of soy yogurt (flavored or vanilla flavored). Cooking:
1. To start, immediately heat the oven to 180 degrees and lubricate the molds for baking muffins with oil.
2. Mix flax flour and water in a small bowl.
3. In a larger bowl, beat brown and white granulated sugar with yogurt and softened margarine.
4. In the third bowl, mix all the dry ingredients: flour, salt, ripper and vanillin.
5. Combine all three masses in one container, add a banana brought to a puree consistency.
6. Knead homogeneous dough.
7. Spill the dough in the molds, bake for 25 minutes.
Recipe 6. Banana Muffins with Cranberries or Other Berry
Ingredients:
• three bananas;
• a glass of cranberries;
• 3/4 packs of butter;
• 3/4 cup of sugar;
• 300-320 grams of flour;
• three Art. l powdered sugar;
• two eggs;
• teaspoon ripper;
• a pinch of salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Pre-remove the butter from the freezer. As soon as he softens, beat him with a mixer with sugar.
2. Add eggs, beat again.
3. Pureed bananas in any convenient way: in a blender, with a fork.
4. Mix mashed potatoes with oil mixture.
5. Add flour in small portions mixed with baking powder or soda and salt.
6. Pour the washed and dried cranberry berries into the dough, mix it in with gentle movements.
7. Bake muffins with banana and berries, laid out in special forms, at 180 degrees for about 20-22 minutes.
8. Decorate the finished product after cooling completely with powdered sugar.
Recipe 7. Muffins with banana, chocolate and candied fruits
Ingredients:
• 70 grams of butter;
• two eggs;
• 80 ml of milk;
• 120 grams of granulated sugar;
• 130 grams of flour;
• one banana;
• 100 grams of chocolate;
• 30 grams of candied fruit;
• ten grams of baking powder.
How to cook:
1. Beat the eggs well with sugar.
2. Add to the mass softened, cut into pieces of butter. Whisk.
3. We introduce warm (room temperature) milk, beat.
4. Pour the baking powder and flour, first gently stir with a spoon, then beat again. 5. Add candied fruit to almost finished dough, cut banana into small cubes and chopped chocolate into small pieces. Stir.
6. We shift the dough into greased cupcakes, bake for 18-22 minutes at 175 degrees.
Banana Muffins - Secrets and Tricks
• Since the dough for muffins rises very well, put it into molds without strictly taking 2/3 of the volume.
• You can easily determine the readiness of muffins: to do this, just enough time later for baking to stick a toothpick into a cupcake. It remains dry - muffins are ready, moistened - soak for some time.
• In addition to this standard method, the readiness of the product can be determined “by eye”: the dough has risen, the muffins are reddened and easily move away from the walls of the molds.
• To make the muffins airy, it is best to knead the dough with a spoon. To speed up the process, you can use the mixer, but you need to work at the lowest speed.
• All ingredients listed in the recipe must be at the same temperature. Then the dough for muffins is easy to knead, and baking will be especially soft and tender. Remove all food from the refrigerator to the table an hour before cooking.
• Finished products are decorated strictly after cooling, otherwise the dressing or glaze will begin to melt and dampen up the muffins, which will add neither beauty nor taste to the products.
• Muffins with banana decorated with special creams, mastic, berries, dragees, candies, candied fruits and other confectionery products will be an original and unique treat at special events.
