Banana Walnut Muffins

Banana Walnut Muffins - contributed by watie (young mama)

To sift together as (A):

1 cup plain flour

1/3 tsp salt

1/3 tsp bicarbonate soda

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

3 bananas, roughly mashed

1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped

Methods:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.

2. Stir oil and sugar together

3. Beat in egg. Mixture will turn gluey.

4. Mix in (A)

5. Stir in vanilla essence, bananas and walnuts

6. Fill muffin cups up to 3/4 full

7. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees Celcius for 20mins.

Tips:

- Use ang bak bananas and make sure they are very ripe so muffins will smell more fragrant

- To ripen bananas, put the bunch in a plastic bag and tie it up.

Ripening bananas give out ethylene which makes fruits ripen faster. - To ripen bananas even faster, put an apple in the bag as apple emit even more ethylene.

- Using 2.5" muffin cup, you should yield about 7 muffins with one recipe

- I only "roughly" mash the bananas i.e. I leave about half of the quantity in "lumps". This makes the muffin nicer as you get these little sweet surprises in your muffins