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How to prepare Easy Banana Pecan Nut Muffins, a perfect and healthy way to start your day and also fantastic for breakfast, snack, or a dessert!
A short history of banana bread
Believe it or not: Banana Muffins or Bread: The surprise ingredient (not bananas) that started it all
What is the secret to making moist muffins?
- Use butter AND oil as butter makes things tasty but oil makes things moist. So use both whenever you can!
- Do not overmix the batter
- Do not bake for longer than 20 minutes.

How to prepare Easy Banana Pecan Nut Muffins
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 22 muffins 1x
- Cuisine: American
Description
An easy, moist, tasty, and well-loved treat. You can enjoy it with tea or coffee, as a quick on-the-go breakfast, or whenever you feel like something to tie you over!
Ingredients
- 125 g Stork Bake or Butter
- 250 ml castor sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 ripe bananas, mashed
- 5 ml vanilla essence / extract
- 500 ml Cake Flour
- 5 ml bicarbonate soda
- 5 ml Baking Powder
- 5ml Mixed spice
- 125 ml hot water
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C / 350F
- Cream butter & sugar until light & creamy
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Stir in Vanilla extract, and mashed bananas, add flour, baking powder, & mixed spice followed by bicarbonate soda dissolved in hot water.
- Mix until well combined.
- Spoon into paper cupcake liners and bake them for 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean
- Add chopped nuts, like walnuts or pecan nuts just before popping them in the oven.
- Makes about 22 regular-size muffins.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested Feriel Sonday from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 152
- Sugar: 12
- Sodium: 66
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 25
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 29
Keywords: banana muffins
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