Banana Muffins

Sweet and Soft Banana Muffins

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Tried the banana muffin to get my kids eat some fruits. It came out so soft and sweet. The below recipe makes up to one dozen muffins. You can go ahead and add nuts to the batter, but I didn't want my little one to get choked, therefore avoided nuts. When it is baking time, my daughter is already there ready to help me out.

Ingredients:	Quantity
Ripe big Bananas	3 nos
All-purpose flour	1 1/2 cups
White Sugar *	3/4 cup
Egg	1 nos
Butter softened	1/3 cup
Baking Powder	1 tsp
Baking Soda	1/2 tsp
Salt	1/2 tsp
Vanilla Essence	2-3 drops
Brown Sugar + White Sugar (Optional)	2-3 tbsp to sprinkle

Preparation:
1) Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2) Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mash the bananas well.
3) Beat the sugar, egg, softened butter, vanilla essence and smashed bananas together.
4) Fold in the sifted flour mixture and mix into a smooth batter.
5) Fill the muffin tin upto 3/4 a cup with the batter and sprinkle the sugar on top if using.
6) Bake for 20-25 min's or until done. Let it stand for a couple of min's and it is ready to serve.

Batter scooped into the muffin tin	Muffin baked and ready to eat

Note: * You can use a mixture of 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup white sugar.

Vanilla Cake

Ingredients

Maida 1 1/2 cups
Powdered Sugar 1 1/2 cups
Butter 125 gms
Eggs 3 nos
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Vanilla Essence - few drops
Nuts or Tutty Fruity (Optional)



Preparation

1) Sift maida and baking powder
2) Beat the eggs and vanilla and keep aside
3) Beat butter and sugar well. Add the egg and vanilla mixture
4) Add the maida to the mixture little at a time and beat the mixture in clockwise direction. Ensure that no lumps are formed.
5) Add the nuts to the mixture.
6) Preheat the oven to 200 o C and grease the baking tin with butter
7) Pour the mix into the baking tin and bake for 35 minutes at 200 o C

Biscuit

Ingredients

Maida - 1 1/2 cups
Powdered Sugar - 3/4 cup
Ghee & Vanaspathi - 3/4 Cup (both of them in equal propotion) or ghee - 3/4 cup
Milk Powder - 1 Tbsp
Custard Powder - 1 Tbsp
Cooking Soda - 1 pinch
Vannila essence - 2-3 drops
Cashew and Badam Powder - 1 tbsp (Optional)



Preparation
1) Mix all the above ingrediants without any lumps in it.
2) Make them into small round balls and spread it in a oven proof plate (Aluminium plate)
3) Preheat the oven to 200 o C
4) Bake it in the pre-heated oven for 15 mins at 200 o C
5) Take it out and let it cool.