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CHOCOLATE BANANA MUFFINS

I think of muffins as a treaty weekend breakfast, but these look so darkly elegant, especially in their matching dark-brown, tulip-skirted party frocks, that they positively beg to be brought out with coffee after dinner. Certainly, while most muffins are at their best pretty well straight out of the oven, the bananas in the mixture make sure these beauties keep their moist, eat-me texture long after those less favoured have staled and lost their allure.

Recipe posted by Nigella

Ingredients

  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian
  • 3 very ripe or overripe bananas
  • 125ml vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 100g soft light brown sugar
  • 225g plain flour
  • 3 x 15ml tablespoons best-quality cocoa powder, sifted
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 x 12-bun muffin tin

Method

Serves: Makes 12
  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6 and line a muffin tin with papers. Don’t worry about getting special papers: regular muffin cases will do the job.
  2. Mash the bananas by hand or with a freestanding mixer.Still beating and mashing, add the oil followed by the eggs and sugar.
  3. Mix the flour, cocoa powder and bicarb together and add this mixture, beating gently, to the banana mixture, then spoon it into the prepared papers.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 15–20 minutes, by which time the muffins should be dark, rounded and peeking proudly out of their cases. Allow to cool slightly in their tin before removing to a wire rack.
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  • Those were delicious! Just for fun, I have added to few of them a bit of cinnamon, and the mixture of cocoa, bananas and the cinnamon flavour was incredible! :))

    Posted by Villemo on 30th Jul 2011 at 10.34

  • Just made these and they are easy and delicious.

    Posted by TracyP on 10th Aug 2011 at 18.55

  • Whilst these have a delightful texture - moist but not dense - ad they're very easy to make, I've got to confess that on their own, I found the taste a bit boring. I'd recommend adding some chocolate chips or some cinnamon or some nuts or some peanut butter frosting or something!

    Posted by Alice206 on 28th Sep 2011 at 19.15

  • I am going to make them now for the second time but add some cinnamon as the 1st time they were a bit dull. I will also chop up some chocolate to put on top and hope they turn out a bit nicer... :) Ily Nigella - you are truly an inspiration and I read your books for hours at a time. I also want to become a journalist when I grow up and I just read that you are also a journalist...May my love of food be as strong as yours :)

    Posted by Lulubell97 on 6th Oct 2011 at 3.35

  • These, for want of a better word, are boring. Although visually appealing, the cocoa doesn't give the little muffins the oomph they deserve. I am working on stirring some dark choc chips or some melted 70% in to give it more of a chocolate bite... Or maybe as suggested above, some cinnamon would work too...

    Posted by ohjonny on 19th Dec 2011 at 9.16

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