“You say banana, we say banarna…..”
As with many baking terms, there is an inconsistency between American and British English terms when it comes to muffins. Australians tend to side with the Brits when it comes to language, but as Americanisms overload our media, we are familiar with these disparities. Australians eat sweet biscuits with a cup of tea, dry biscuits with cheese. Scones we top with jam and cream.
English muffins are sold at the bakery, sweet American muffins in cake shops.
It’s perfectly respectable to eat English muffins at breakfast time, especially topped with Eggs Benedict. To the average Aussie, American muffins are more like cake, we eat them as “healthy” snack food. It’s marvellous the way a little fruit can counteract sugar and fat!!
BANANA CHOC CHIP MUFFINS Makes 12 large muffins
180g melted butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup rolled oats
4 medium very ripe bananas
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk
Pre heat the oven to 180 C fan forced.
Line muffin tins with paper cases.
Mash the bananas, then using a fork, lightly whisk in the eggs.and vanilla. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl then stir in the sugar and the choc chips. Make a well in the centre, pour in the wet ingredients then mix until well combined. Almost fill the paper lined muffin tins, then bake 15 – 20 minutes. The muffins will rise and fill the tins and should be firm in the centre when done. Cool on a wire rack.
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My mum used to make ones just like these. (And I will always say banarna) 🙂 xx
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I love anything with banarna in it! Yum!
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😄
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I also add chocolate chips to my banana muffs. Isn’t chocolate and bananas a great combo? They looks great!
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Choc chips can give an essentially boring muffin loads of appeal! They never last long!
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With chocolate chip! Of course! Sounds & looks divine
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Thanks!
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I never knew the differences between muffins from the US, UK, and AU. Very interesting. By the way, the muffins looks delicious!
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Thanks,
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Chocolate and banana, what a divine combination, if I wasn’t trying to lose some weight I would bake up a batch!
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😪😪😪😪😪
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YUM!
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