Banana Yogurt Muffins 香蕉酸奶松糕

Banana Muffins + Yogurt = Banana Yogurt Muffins

With my success of making homemade yogurt, it motivated me further to use it in my baking recipes since now I get to have this ingredient easily and inexpensively.  With that, I started off my 1st experience in using my homemade yogurt to improvise my fool-proved simple and easy banana muffin recipe by replacing the milk content with yogurt and transform it into Banana Yogurt Muffins .



These muffins were so moist and rich with banana flavour.  For kids version, I added in chocolate chips. With that you can imagine another big up from my boy Ray when he had his bite!

 

 With this success, next I think good to explore using homemade yogurt into cooking recipe, so stay tune!  

Dino Banana Chocolate Chips muffins

Wanna share muffins with T-Rex?

Ming Ray's school PTA organized a fund raising garage sale last Saturday 19/03/2011 and every student was requested to bring in a box of bakery for sale. In addition, each student was also asked to decorate the cake box. There would be a prize for the best decorated cake box. Ming Ray was very excited with this project when he took back the box. At home, other than playing his Lego, his favourite past time was craft works. With the box, he had been pestering me to work with him. Finally, we started to work on this little project Thursday afternoon after school.

With his usual fanatic love for dinosaurs, Ming Ray wanted his cake box to be decorated with dinosaur features. He suggested drawing and painting the four sides of the box with dinosaur eras in chronological order from Triassic, Jurassic to Cretaceous periods with volcano eruptions. Instead of working from scratch, I stumbled upon an idea to recycle dinosaur features from his old dinosaurs diorama which he made the year before.

Ray's Dinosaur Diorama - made in 2010

I asked him to use pencil to draw out his ideas around the box and assisted him in mixing up water colours for him to paint. As for the main top of the box, he wanted to paint four striking colour of red, blue, yellow and green stripes. I then suggested another idea to recycle old pipe cleaners to make some words and stick on the top of the box.

So, here is my lovely boy's master piece:

Ray's cake box

4 sides of the cake box designed with dinosaurs era

What had mommy baked to fill up the box? The words on the box say it all J

T-Rex: I wanna a piece too!

Yes, I had baked Ming Ray's favourite banana chocolate chips muffins.

Looking for this simple and easy recipe? It's from an old recipe I shared previously, click here.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Yesterday, my computing classmate asked me for banana muffins recipe. So, follow-up on Chocolate muffins making, this is another super easy muffins recipe that you can try too.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Baked @ 07/08/2010

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (Optional to replace with self- raising flour) 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (Omit If self –raising flour being used)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder (Omit If self –raising flour being used)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 large)
• 1/2 cup sugar (original recipe goes for ¾ cup)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (microwave to melt)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 size 6 (small) eggs (lightly beaten)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Serves 12  

Method： 

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C (350 degrees F).
2. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with muffin papers.
3. Sift flour into a large bowl add in baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Mashed banana in separate bowl, add in sugar, melted butter, beaten eggs and vanilla essence. 
5. Mix into dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over-mix! 
6. Fold in chocolate chips. 
7. Divide batter among prepared muffin pans; fill it till 3/4 full. 
8. Bake in the center of oven for about 20 minutes , 15 minutes for small muffins or until muffins are golden brown, test by inserting a skewer into center of muffins if comes out clean muffins ready to take out.  
9. Cool muffins in tray for 5 minutes before transferring muffins to cooling rack to cool completely.

 Notes:

1. You can add up to 4 bananas, as the more bananas the moister the muffins.
2.  For variety of flavor you can add in a handful of walnuts in there.
3.  If you prefer to have plain banana muffins just omit the chocolate chips and increase the sugar to3/4 cups of sugar.

 配料： 

• 1 1 / 2杯中筋面粉（可用自发面粉取代）
• 1茶匙小苏打（省略如果用自发面粉) 
• 1茶匙泡打粉（省略如果用自发面粉）
• 1 / 2茶匙盐
• 1 1 / 4杯 约3个熟的大香蕉
• 1 / 2杯糖（原食谱为¾杯）
• 1 / 2杯无盐黄油（微波融化）
• 1 / 4杯牛奶
• 2 个鸡蛋（小）（打散）
• 1 / 2杯 巧克力片
• 1 / 2茶匙香草精

 制作步骤： 

1。预热烤箱至180摄氏度（350华氏度）。 

2。在模具周围涂油或铺油纸。 

3。面粉筛入一个大碗，加入泡打粉，小苏打和盐。 

4。在另一碗里把香蕉捣碎成泥，加入糖，黄油，鸡蛋和香草精。 

5。把干的面粉配料倒入混合，轻轻翻拌均匀，不要过度搅拌！ 

6。倒入巧克力片。 

7。将混合好的蛋糕糊倒入模具，大约 3 / 4满。 

8。放进预热好的烤箱，180度，约20分钟，或直到松饼是金黄色。 

9。烤好后的松饼从烤箱里取出来，稍待5分钟冷却后才脱模。

  

注释：

1。您可以添加最多4个香蕉，香蕉更多松饼会较柔润。 

2。你也可以添加少量的核桃。 

3。如果你只要香蕉松饼，只是把巧克力片省略，把糖增加到3/ 4杯。

Chocolate Chips Muffins

Frankly, I'm not really into fancy delicated baking. Takes too much of time to prepare and key point is my man at home not a sweet tooth lover and will not appreciate them except my boy.

So, every time when I'm thinking of trying out new bakery, I'm always worry how to finish the whole cake as Ming Ray and I can only eat that handful. So, friends who lived nearby me will benefit from it, am I right Cheng Ee?  :-P

For baking my fave is making Muffins, because it is so easy to make by merely mixing the dry and wet ingredients and not required much skill to make them even a five years old can do it with your supervision. The most important thing is they can be ready to stomach in within half an hour!

Here is Ming Ray's favourite - Chocolate chips Muffins

Baked @ 30/05/2010
Wet Ingredients:	Dry Ingredients:
2 eggs 1 cup (220 g) sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 2/3 cup (160 ml) milk 2/3 cup (150 g) butter (microwave to melt)	1 cup (110 g) all-purpose flour (or 1 cup self raising flour and omit baking powder) 2 teaspoons baking powder 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 120 g semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)

Served : 6 XL muffins or 12 M muffins.

Method

 Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 15 minutes.

1. Grease 6 large muffin tins or cups (paper muffin bake cups are recommended) or 12 medium cups.
2. Prepare the wet ingredients in a medium bowl. Beat eggs with sugar, add in vanilla, milk and fold in the melted butter.
3. For dry ingredients, sieve multipurpose flour in a bigger bowl and add cocoa powder, baking powder. If self raising flour being used, omit the baking powder.
4. Make a center well in dry ingredient and pour in the wet ingredient and mix well. Do not over mix!
5. Add chocolate chips into the batter ,keep some to sprinkle on top at last 5 minutes of baking time.
6. Bake at 180 degrees C until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, estimated 30 minutes for XL muffins, 20 minutes for medium size muffins.



Chocolatge chips still visible if sprinkle on top @ last 5 minutes

7. The Chocolate Muffins may be frozen, before serving microwave few second and it will taste as nice as freshly baked.

Notes:

1. If you wish to use less saturated fat, try substituting ½ the butter with a good quality vegetable oil.
2. If you wish to have a strong chocolate flavor you can add 1-2 more tablespoons of cocoa powder.
3. You may add vanilla or white chocolate chips instead or regular ones.
4. Add chocolate chips at the last five minutes, so it will just stay on top of the muffins and more presentable.