Banana muffins

Bonjour,

Ça fait longtemps que je n'avais pas fait de muffins a la banane. This afternoon I made banana muffins since I have ripe bananas in the kitchen and I will bring these muffins to my MIL tomorrow. I'm pretty sure she would like it.

So simple yet so delicious, without any fancy ingredients or stuff to make it and voila, muffins a la banane sont prêt dans 30 minutes. I add chopped dark chocolate on top but even without chocolate, these banana muffins tastes so good and moist. Recipe from Genius Kitchen.com..

BANANA MUFFINS

Ingredients;

3 bananas, mashed
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/3 melted butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups flour

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 375° and prepare muffin cups.
- Mash bananas in a medium bowl.
- Add sugar and beaten egg.
- Add in melted butter and dry ingredients, gently stir and pour in the muffin cups.
- Bake for 20 minutes.

Happy baking!

Madeleines

Bonjour,

Every Saturday and Sunday normally we go to visit a brocante nearby our place around this region. Most of the brocante are organized by the maire of the city or association all over France. Hunting and finding a little treasures is one of the thing that I love to do and it was a great pleasure indeed. I found a lots of cooking stuff just like this madeleines pan which I brought in brocante for 1 Euro few weeks ago.

I made madeleines recently after watching a TV program showing about these little cake, and at the same time I excited to use my new toys. It was my first attempt, though, these madeleines turns out really good.

MADELEINES

Ingredients;

100g flour
100g butter, melted
100g sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoons fresh milk
1 lemon zest
1 teaspoon baking powder

METHOD;

- Whisk the eggs, sugar until lightens in colour.
- Sift half of the flour and baking powder into the egg mixture and gently fold in using a spatula, and continue to folding in with the rest of the flour.
- Pour the melted butter and oil, mix well until it fully incorporated.
- Add in milk, mix well and lastly add lemon zest.
- Cover the batter and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour to overnight.
- Before baking, prepare the madeleine pan by brushing with melted butter and flour, preheat oven to 200°.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of batter into the pan and bake for 8-10 minutes.

Happy baking!

Banana Muffins and Banana Bread

Salut,

Banana is one of the fruits that I always have in the house. I often make smooties using banana, to make a cake, muffins, bread or just to make a simple fried banana Malay style like we always did at my hometown.

I've actually tried quite a few different recipe of banana muffins and banana bread and so far these two recipe is my favorite. There are a lot of banana recipes out there that I need to try one day and who knows there is another good one at least for my liking.

BANANA MUFFINS

3 ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup vegetables oil
3 tablespoon fresh milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
A pinch of salt

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 180° and prepare muffin tin.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, egg, yogurt, oil, milk and vanilla.
- Add in flour, sugar, baking soda and salt and mix everything just until smooth.
- Pour the batter in a muffin tin and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.

EGGLESS BANANA BREAD

3 ripe banana, mashed
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup raisin, optional
A pinch of salt

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 180° and prepared bread loaf pan.
- In a mixing bowl, combined mashed banana and melted butter.
- Add in milk and vanila, mix well.
- Add sugar, baking soda and salt.
- Lastly, add flour and raisin, mix just until everything combined.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until skewer comes out clean.

Caramel Cupcakes

Bonsoir,

I made this caramel cupcakes few days ago and we're in love with it. I'd have to say that these cupcakes taste are almost perfect even without any frosting in it. Good thing is, they are not too sweet and the flavour is just right for me and mon mari.

I will definitely make this cupcakes again but with caramel frosting next time. It's not too difficult to make even though the caramel sauce have to be prepare in advance. For the leftovers caramel sauce, we can keep in the fridge for 2-3 weeks.

CARAMEL CUPCAKES

Ingredients:

For the caramel sauce:
200g sugar
90g salted butter
1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream

Direction:
- Heat sugar in a heavy bottomed saucepan and cook for few minutes until the sugar start to turn brown.
- Gently swirl the pan to make sure all the sugar melts.
- Once the sugar has melted and bubbles form all over the surface, carefully add butter and stir until it is completely melt.
- Whisk and very slowly pour the heavy cream and allow the mixture to boil for a few second.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool completely before transfer into the jar.

For the cupcake:

2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
8 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanila extract
1 1/4 whole milk
1/2 cup caramel sauce

METHOD:

- Preheat oven 180° and prepare cupcake pan with baking cup.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and stir in with vanila.
- Slowly add half of the flour, baking powder and follow by half of the milk, and stir slowly with the rest of flour and milk.
- Add caramel and stir until fully incorporated.
- Pour the batter into prepared cupcake pan and bake for 15-20 minutes or until skewer testing comes out clean.
- Cool completely before frosting.

Enjoy!

Carrot Cupcakes

Bonsoir a tous,

This month, the weather was good and pleasant, sunny, warm and a little windy but nothing too objectionable. Perhaps it can sometimes be a little unpredictable. I just hope everything will continue to fall into place as it should.

Alors, maintenant let's talk about cupcakes. I've made this carrot cake several time and I've tried quite a few different recipes. But, this recipes was great, it turns out moist, tender and they are absolutely amazing. At the same time, it's quick and it's easy to make.

CARROT CUPCAKES

Ingredients:

2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanila extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup finely grated carrot

METHOD:

- Preheat oven to 180° and prapare cupcake pans.
- Beat together eggs, sugar, oil and vanila until combined.
- Add in flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
- Add carrot and mix everything until just combined.
- Pour in the muffin pans and bake for 20-25 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Top up with cream cheese frosting and the cupcakes tastes even better.

Bon appètit a tous!

Oreo Cheese Cupcake

Bonsoir,

One day last week, I made this cupcake for a friends and they loved it. This simple oreo cheese cupcake have been giving to our friends during our visit to England last week. I've got a plan to make other things before, well anyway I end up making cupcake.

In fact I liked this oreo cheese cupcake because it was a simple recipe and easy to do. So, let's check the recipe below:

OREO CHEESE CUPCAKE

Ingredients:

1-2 package Oreo cookies, 21 left whole, 6 coarsely chopped
500g cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanila extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup plain yogurt

METHOD:

- Preheat oven to 170° and prepared muffin tin with paper liners.
- Place a whole oreo cookies in the bottom of each lined cup.
- In the large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar and beat until all combined.
- Add the vanila extract and eggs one at a time and beating until incorporated.
- Add the yogurt in but do not over mix.
- Stir in the chopped oreo cookies.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared lined cups.
- Baked for 15-20 minutes.
- Transfer to wire racks to cool completely and after refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.

That's easy, isn't? Bon appetit!!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Bonjour a tous,

This couple of weeks is our busiest time of the month. Despite my busy weekdays, I didn't think I'd managed to make in a time, but luckily for me I did. I managed to find the time to make these Red Velvet cupcakes. I've been working on this recipe for a while now. I was hoping to post this recipe few months ago and now it's finally here.

Last weekend we had a special guest, Philippe and Paul from Pendle England come in and stayed in our small apartment for twinning celebration and Creil Festival. Wanted to say we had an absolutely fantastic time over the weekend. Busy day but we had fun and got things done too. We are looking forward to meeting you all again in September.

Alors, now I'm so excited to share this recipe with you all. The wait is over! Please ignore the decorations on the cupcake because I did not have enough time to decorate them.

RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Ingredients:-

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanila extract
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon red food coloring

METHOD:-

- Preheat oven to 180°. Prepare muffin pans with bakings cups.
- Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate and salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix together milk, vinegar and red food coloring for about 10 minutes and then add sugar, oil and vanila extract.
- Add in flour mixture and mix until combined.
- Pour the batter into the lined muffin pans and bake for 15-20 minute or until skewer inserted comes out clean. Let cool before frosting.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

200gm cream cheese
50gm butter, softened
1 cups powdered sugar

- Beat cream cheese and butter until blended.
- Add the powdered sugar beat until light and fluffy.
- Pipe the frosting onto each cupcake.

Enjoy!

Banana Raisin Muffins

Salut,

I haven't baked cupcake or muffins for quite a while but today I have just made these banana raisin muffins and they turned out very light, fluffy, moist and delicious. These muffins are so easy to make, just to throw together and it's perfect for last minute dessert or breakfast. This easy banana muffin recipe can even make with fresh or frozen blueberries or dried fruits which can also help satisfy a sweet tooth.

BANANA RAISIN MUFFINS

Ingredients:-

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup fresh milk
1/4 cup vegetables oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 mashed banana
1/2 cup raisins
A little sliced banana for topping

METHOD:-

- Preheat oven 180°.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together egg and sugar until combined.
- Whisk in milk, oil, mashed banana and vanilla extract.
- Add in flour and mix everything using wooden spoon or spatula. Do not over mixing. Fold in raisins.
- Spoon batter into prapared muffin tins and finish with slices of banana and bake at 180° for 5 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 170° and continue to bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick come out clean.

Voila, bon appetit!