Sunday, November 10, 2013

Banana Oat Muffins

I didn't even realize I was baking. It dawned on me as I was spooning the batter into the muffin tins. I was like, O hey I guess I'm baking now. I wonder if I bake in my sleep. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this Banana Oat Muffin recipe.



Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Old Fashioned Oats
  • 1 cup Heavy Whipping cream 
  • 1 cup pumpkin pure
  • 2 smashed ripe bananas 
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tblsp melted butter
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar 
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg 
  • 1/4 tsp all spice
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda 

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450 F. Prepare muffin tins by spraying with nonstick spray 

Mix oats with heavy cream and let soak about 1/2 hour 

Mix smashed bananas, pumpkin pure, eggs, sugar, and melted butter tell well combined 

Add in the Oat and cream and mix tell well combined

In a separate bowl mix together all the dry ingredients. 

Fold in dry ingredients into the wet tell just incorporated. Be careful to not over mix or you will have rubber muffins. 

Fill muffin tins to the top. 

Put in oven for 6 min. then turn down the heat to 375 F. 

Bake an additional 15 min. Muffins are done when they spring back from a gentle touch and a fork or toothpick come out clean. 

Let sit in pan for 5 min. then move to cooling rack

If you want to you can add a glaze to the top or just enjoy them as is. 
For the glaze I used this recipe. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/vanilla-glaze/ 

Enjoy!