Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Muffins.

Yesterday I was just waiting in the car for mum to come out of the local shop. "Look what she gave you!" she said, holding a bunch of deep black bananas, "to make banana muffins!"

I am actually munching on one RIGHT NOW. Oh, now I've finished... That's a shame.

These are dairy free, not egg free but you could use an egg replacer like a flax egg if you don't  eat eggs. The walnuts and chocolate chips are optional but, come on, we all know that choccy chips make everything better.


These are so gooey and fluffy and moist, argh i hate the word moist but it applies to these! In these i love how you come across a little chunk of gooey banana, and then a chunk of bitter chocolate. These aren't too sweet, i actually lessened the sugar amount because i had SUCH ripe bananas.

So, here we go!

Ingredients:

• 300g plain white flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 75g (up to 85g, depending on how ripe the bananas are/how big your sweet tooth is) brown muscavado sugar
• 150ml non dairy milk of choice (i used unsweetened almond milk)
• 100ml sunflower/veg oil
• 1 happy egg
• Two overripe bananas.
• Walnut pieces (i just eyeballed it; i'd say around 50g? But just chuck some in depending on how much you like walnuts)
• Bittersweet chocolate chips; for this I actually used some good ol' Green & Black's 70 percent dark chocolate. I just chopped pieces up - some were bigger than others but that's the fun! But use a good bitter dark chocolate to get that contrast. (again, just put as much as you want in, and don't worry! I used to worry whenever people wrote "as much as you want" but it's lots of fun because if you love choccy, put lots in and if you're not a fan, put less!)

Preheat your oven to 200 celcius or 400 farenhit, and line a 12 hole muffin tin with muffin cases.
Put the flour and baking powder into a smallish bowl, and mix (with a metal spoon; it keeps the air in.)
Very roughly mash the banana in a cereal bowl, just with a fork so it's almost complete mush but they are still some little clumps of mushy banana, if that makes any sense.
In a separate, large bowl, lightly whisk the egg then add in the sugar, mushed banana, oil and milk, and mix until well  combined. Tip in the walnuts and chocolate, and combine.


Then, tip the dry mixture into the wet, and almost fold and mix as little as possible with a wooden spoon. Make sure there aren't any big clumps of flour, but don't over mix.
Place large dollops of the mixture into the cases. Go quite heavy handed on this.
Then stick them in the oven for 20 minutes, or until they're golden and have risen.
Let them cool a little in the tin for 5-10 minutes, then pop on a plate and offer them around everyone. Warning; if you make these for people they will never stop wanting them.

That's it!

Hope you try out this recipe and if you do leave me a comment or post a picture of them and put it on instagram with the tag #damsonsanddandelions ^_^

Esh
xo