How to bake Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips

What do you do with almost rotten bananas?

Most fresh bananas do not last longer than 3 days after purchase.

When you notice some brown spots on the skin of the bananas, feeling soft when you are holding them, do not throw them away in the bin.

You can always reuse these almost rotten bananas and revamp them into delicious and nutritious Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips for tomorrow’s breakfast, snack time, pack lunch for office or school , picnic trip and midnight snack.

I decided to experiment these almost rotten bananas with the muffin batter by cutting off the rotten parts, mashed or bumped texture are still edible, so , you don’t have to cut off everything that doesn’t looks good to you.

I was surprised that these bananas had turned into fragrant and delicious banana muffins with addition to the chocolate chips that my kids loved to pick and eat them before munching down the whole muffin.

How to prepare

All you have to do is :

– peel the banana peels off.

– mash the bananas with the back of the stainless steel fork on a flat plate.

-You don’t have to use a food processor to puree the bananas.

-Sieve all the dry ingredients in order to remove any harden flours.

– Beat in the butter, egg and sugar until you get a creamy batter.

– Next add in the mashed bananas and beat well with a fork.

– If you feel tired of beating by hand, you can use a cake mixer to beat the batter for 10 min.

-Make sure the bananas are well combined with the muffin batter.

-Use a fork or spoon to scoop up the banana batter to ensure there isn’t any lumps left.

– However, too much mashed bananas isn’t ideal either.

– Your muffin texture would turn wet, damp and uncooked if the bananas flesh is too much.

-Makes the banana muffin inner texture heavy and wet.

– Hence, use moderate amount of bananas and make sure the mashed bananas are diluted well with the batter.

-Lastly, just scatter chocolate chips on top of the muffins approximatelt 10 minutes before the banana muffins are fully baked.

– Putting in the chocolate chips before baking will make the chips sink into the bottom of the muffins.

Here is my Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips Recipe

Ingredients

-250ml milk ( fresh milk or powder milk mix with warm water)

-50g plain flour

-30g self raising flour

-2 tsp baking powder

-5 tsp sugar

-1 egg

-200g bananas ( roughly 2 large bananas )

-100g chocolate chips

– muffin paper cups

Baking method:

Preheat oven 200C for 10 min
Line up muffin tray with paper cups
Peel the bananas, put on a flat plate. Mash the bananas with the back of a fork.
In a big mixing bowl, sieve in both plain flour and self raising flour plus the baking powder. Remove any harden flours.
Bring the milk to boil in a small pot. Remove from heat.
Transfer the boiled milk into a large mixing bowl.
Sprinkle the flour mixture over it.
Blend well with a stainless steel fork.
Next, add in sugar, beaten egg, butter and mashed bananas.
Beat well with a whisk or cake mixer for 10 min.
Fill in the muffin batter into the lined muffin paper cups to 2/3 full.
Do not fill up to the brim because it will overflow when baking process.
Drop a few chocolate chips on top of the muffin batter.
Pop into the oven and bake for 20 -30 min.
Use a skewer or toothpick , poke into the muffin to check the inner texture.
If it comes out clean, your Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips are ready to eat.
If the skewer comes out wet, further bake for 10 min.