Today is the last day of Blogging Marathon Edition#6. Time surely flies, especially when it is Blogging Marathon Time. I know I sound so boring, but life sure is hectic, even if I repeat this often. This edition has been really very tightly squeezed and what with the idea of pairing two bloggers to cook from each other's blog.
All my BM posts have been cooked just before posting, so you can imagine the haste the entire process has been. For all the planning I normally do, I know I end up being hard-pressed for time so much. Still, I have enjoyed the entire two weeks of blogging and our discussions.
I am working on the next theme already, hopefully, it's should be even more interesting.
For the last day, I got myself paired with Cool Lassie and I checked her collection of Egg replaced Cake/ Bread and found the first post I saw to be most appealing. It's Easy Eggless and Moist Banana Walnut Bread. I thought I should make this over the weekend but couldn't do it.
And I have been planning to use Flax seeds for a long time and since have two packs of flaxseed powder. But I never came using it. It's also nearing its shelf life. So got some ripe banana last night and knew I will have to get up early to make this. I wanted to send this for the kid's snack box.
Since my kids don't like any nut in their food, I had to skip walnuts. Then I saw that my all-purpose flour was not enough. So made this even more healthy by adding more wheat flour. Added chocolate chips to please the kids. Well I know all my bakes have these chips, it surely excites the little ones.
Finally, when it was baked, I was so excited to see how well it has risen. The taste was exceptionally good. Very moist and soft. I know next time I am going to make this as a loaf or a cake. I halved the recipe from what CL mentioned. This yielded me 12 mini muffins, 4 big muffins. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration CL!
But making this in mini size is always good to serve kids.
Step by Step pictures for making Banana Muffin
Dry Ingredients
Whole Wheat flour - 3/4 cup
All purpose Flour / Maida - 1/2 cup
Baking powder 1 & 1/4 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
A pinch of salt
Wet Ingredients
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Flax Seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Hot Water - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Butter, melted - 1 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Curds - 1 tsp
Ripe banana - 2 big ones.
Vanilla essence few drops.
Method to prepare:
Shift all the dry flours in a bowl, keep it aside.
Pulse the banana to get the puree
Add the hot water to the flax seeds and keep it aside. It will foam after a while.
In a bowl, take the sugar, add flaxseed mix, banana puree, butter, oil, curds, vanilla essence. Mix well.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C
When the oven is ready, line the muffin tray with liners.
To the wet ingredients, add the dry ingredients and mix well. There is no need to beat or mix fast.
Spoon into the cup to half full. Bake it at 170 degrees C for 15 mins. Then reduce to 155 C and bake for 5 mins.
The big muffins had to be baked at 170 degrees C for 20 mins and then at 155 for 2 mins.
Hari Chandana says
Looks so soft and delicious.. Lovely clicks too .. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Sin-A-Mon (Monika) says
the muffins look delectable
Divya Vikram says
Muffins make the best finger foods. These look perfectly baked Valli.
jayasree says
Cake looks super moist and has rose beautifully.
vaishali sabnani says
Valli..these look realy v nice..lovely texture ....
Aarthi says
perfect
Priya says
Omg, those muffins looks seriously so pretty and addictive..
Krithi's Kitchen says
Super pretty eggless muffins.. Yumm..
Mélange says
Wow..they have come out perfect..Yeah,I too agree the choco chips can excite them and after all with all those healthy stuff,we need to do some tricks to make them eat.Nice idea!
Myka Iyer says
Hey don't stop your Blogging Marathon.. We need more chocolate recipes 🙂
Cool Lassi(e) says
Valli, I am glad that you and the kids loved it. The addition of chocolate chips instead of walnuts are a much welcome twist! I am going to follow suit and try the same for my little boy. He certainly can't get enough of candies and chocolates!
I am glad that you got to try a recipe of mine. I am sad that this edition of BM winds up today. Well there is always the next month.
SravsCulinaryConcepts says
perfectly baked muffins !! looks so YUM !!
harini-jaya says
cute muffins!
Rookie Qookie says
This looks gud..have forwarded it to my Vegetarian friend..Thanks for sharing 🙂
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says
Absolutely love the banana flavor. Please do check my blog to see how I tried and loved your eggless banana pancakes recipe 🙂
Vardhini says
Yummy eggless muffins .. looks good.
Pavani says
Muffins look so so good Valli. Kids would have surely loved them.
Enjoyed the marathon and big thanks to you for taking time and organizing. Looking forward to the next marathon.
divya says
Muffins make the best finger foods. These look perfectly baked ....
Aarthi says
yummy looking dish..I have send request in facebook for you.you din accept yet..Check taht dear.
Jayashree says
Your muffins have turned out very well....
PJ says
Looks so cute and I am sure they tasted great. Really tempting...
rekhas kitchen says
They looks so prity and I loved those liners looks so beautiful feel like having one from there..
Degchi says
Muffin looks healthy, moist, fluffy and tempting.