
Banana Bread of Muffins
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Extra 10 mins prep time for icing and to allow cooling.
- Easy
- Makes 18 muffins or 1 large Banna Bread
Ingredients
The Banana Bit
- 4 over ripe bananas
- 180g caster Sugar
- 1 egg
- 200g Plain Flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 75g melted butter
Icing (optional)
- 4 over ripe bananas
- 180g caster Sugar
- 1 egg
- 200g Plain Flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 75g melted butter
- 400g Icing Sugar
- 30g melted butter
- 150g cream cheese
- Juice from 1/4 of a small lime (or lemon)
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Sprinkles (optional)
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to 180 C/ Gas 4
- STEP 2Mash the bananas and combine with the sugar, egg and melted butter.
- STEP 3Sieve in the flour and baking powder, mixing in as you go.
- STEP 4Pour into a banana bread case and place in the oven for 30 minutes, check the banana bread and remove once golden and risen.
- STEP 5Alternatively spoon into muffin cases and bake for 25 minutes, check on muffins and remove once golden and spongy.
- STEP 6Whilst the banana bread/muffins are cooling down. Begin to make the icing.
- STEP 7Whip together the melted butter and cream cheese. Then add 300g of the icing sugar and mix well.
- STEP 8Then add the lime juice and vanilla extract to the mixture. After this slowly add as much as required of the the rest of the icing sugar until the icing is sweet enough and you will know the texture is ready when a flattened tea spoon of icing is turned side ways it doesn't drip off.
- STEP 9Ice your Banana bread or Muffins once they have cooled down and add sprinkles (optional).