Rich Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips

Picture of Banana Muffin with Chocolate Chip BEFORE Dressing
















Picture Of Banana Muffin with Chocolate Chips After Dressing With Topping









Hello everyone! How was your weekend? I am always surprised to realise how fast the weeks actually fly by. Do you feel the same or is just me who feels this way?

I had a wonderful week and a fantastic weekend. Well just in case you were wondering, my Dad has recovered from his illness and is back to his usual self again, thank God.

Well I always keep my promise and here's the recipe for the title above.

Ingredients needed:

1 cup wholemeal flour

1 cup all purpose plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/4 teaspoons salt

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 large very ripe bananas, smashed with a fork

1/4 cup milk

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup walnuts or cashew nuts, chopped


Topping Ingredients:

3 oz (90grm) cream cheese

1 cup (150grms) confectioners (icing sugar)

1 tbsp finely grated lime zest

1 tbsp fresh lime juice


Method:

Preheat oven 350 F / 180 C / Gas 4

Butter 3 x 6 cups muffin pans

Sift both flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl.

Beat the butter ans sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy.

Add the eggs one at a time, beating until just blended after each addition.
With mixer on low mix in the bananas followed by the dried ingredients, alternating with the milk.
Stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts by hand.
Spoon the batter into the prepared pans.
Bake until well risen and springy to the touch, about 20 mins.

Let cool slightly before turning onto wire rack.

Topping:

Beat the cream cheese and confectioners sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy.

Beat in the lime zest and enough juice to make a thick, spreadable frosting.
Spread the frosting over the cooled muffin.

Have good week ahead!


Cheers!

Sherry

More Picutres From Our Trip To The Park

Busy weekend!

My sons and I enjoying the sandwiches - Cheese & Ham done by my little feller!...Yummy!


Hello everyone!

How are you'll? Hope you'll had a great weekend. As for me it was a wonderful weekend - time spent with my family. As the school holidays are here, the two week midterm break is quite a welcome change for us all at home. No hurried breakfasts, lunches and dinners just to make it on time for homework, school and tuition.

Last Saturday my family and I went for a picnic at the Botanic Park which is about 7km from our home. It was a relaxing time lazing around enjoying nature and animals. To our surprise the park was so crowded with fellow picnickers. We were looking forward to hiring bicycles to ride around the park but unfortunately, all the 300 bikes were already fully booked. Yup! they beat us to it!

Anyway that didn't deter us from enjoying ourselves. After finding our way around and enjoying our picnic basket, we had loads of fun watching the a few ponies, an intelligent parrot (which talks), a lonely buffalo and some mischievous monkeys, we had a tremendous enjoyable time at the pool.

An adventurous walk in the jungle plus a canopy walk was really good. The peaceful scenic view of the different fauna and flora was simply amazing of God's creation. We soaked in all these wonders on our trip around the park on a tramp car. Although it was quite a hurried trip, it was nice to pass by the spice and orchid gardens and orchards too. Finally we came to the dead end which was a dam area . It was quite a breath taking experience.

Picnic basket was mainly organised by my youngest son, Jude. He had prepared Ham and Cheese sandwiches, chicken nuggets and some fruits - watermelon, papaya and bananas.

We all had so much fun and hope to do another trip like this again in the near future. This time we must beat the crowd to get our bikes!

Watch out for more pictures on our trip in future!

Happy Holidays!

Cheers!

Sherry