Friday, November 28, 2008

Do You Know The Muffin (Wo)Man...?

This morning, Girl's flatmate was awakened at some ungodly hour to the clatter of Girl's whisk against the sides of her metal mixing bowl once again as Girl whisked eggs in her quest for light and fluffy muffins.

That in itself would not be anything extraordinary as some beings do take delight in rising early on a weekend and cooking a luxurious breakfast for themselves.

However, the last thing that Girl's flatmate heard last night was probably the clatter of Girl's whisk against the sides of her metal mixing bowl as she made more muffins...

The last thing Girl remembered last night was ingesting a deliciously nutty muffin...

Girl's first batch of muffins was a close approximation of Clotilde's recipe for Honey Hazelnut Cake, which actually started out life as a muffin but got genetically re-engineered into a cake...Girl was merely returning it to what nature intended it to be...a light, deliciously nutty, honey-soaked muffin.



The second was a walnut banana muffin that Girl made up as she went along, incorporating some of the techniques she had used while making Clotilde's recipes...Girl was a little worried that the walnut banana muffins would be abject failures but they came out of the oven, looking plump and niely browned. Cautiously, Girl tried one...and then to make sure that the whole batch was alright and that the one she had just eaten was not merely a fluke, she proceeded to eat another two in quick succession...


Girl's Walnut Banana Muffin recipe...(Note: Girl used very imprecise measurements when making the muffins...feel free to alter if you think you have to!)

Ingredients:
2 eggs
honey
butter (50gms)
1 mashed up banana
70gms chopped walnuts
1½ cups flour
1½ teaspoon baking powder


Method:
Whip up the 2 eggs with either a hand-held mixer or a whisk. Whisk for as long as you like/can...
Add in the mashed banana and whisk again...
Melt the butter and the honey together in a bowl and add into the mixture...whisk again...
Add chopped walnuts and whisk...
Sift flour and baking powder into the mixtureand whisk again...
Spoon into muffin papers/a well-greased muffin tray and bake at 180c for about 15-20 minutes..

Honey Hazelnut Muffins and Banana Walnut Muffins

1 comment:

Meli said...

yay i now have a blog....

poor Jenny..