Banana & Caramel Muffins
Equipment
- 12 Muffin cases
- 1 Stand mixer or hand mixer
Ingredients
- 130 g butter unsalted
- 2 eggs beaten
- 60 ml milk
- 300 g peeled bananas soft
- 160 g Caster Sugar
- 200 g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 60 ml milk
Caramel
- 120 g granulated sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tblsp water
- 35 g butter
Buttercream
- 125 g butter
- 205 g icing sugar
Topping
- 25 g chocolate chips melted
- 25 g banana chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 /160c (for fan) gas mark 4.Melt 130g of butter and leave to cool.Peel and smash the bananas in a big bowl, add the melted butter and eggs. Mix until combined. Gradually add the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon & bicarb with pinch of salt, add milk gently folding in together.Divide the mis into the cake cases and bake for 20-25 mins. Leave to cool for 10 mins in the tin then transfer to cooling rack.
Caramel
- While the muffins are cooling get a small pan and put the120g of sugar and a pinch of salt in it. Add 2 tbsp of water and stir. Gently heat the sugar on a low / medium heat until it turns a golden amber colour. DO NOT STIR! Stirring whilst cooking sugar makes it crystallise, if it starts to do this gently lift the pan off the heat and gently swirl the contents.When the sugar is ready, add 35g of butter and stir until melted.
- Remove from heat, add 35ml of milk and stir, the caramel will bubble up, just keep stirring until it’s smooth then transfer to a clean bowl to cool slightly (if it cools for too long it starts to solidify)Take the cooled muffins and cut a core from the centre about the width of a 5p coin. Keep the bits you’ve cut out for later.
- Put one and a half tsps. of caramel into a separate large bowl ( for the buttercream) and use the rest to fill the holes cut into the muffins, replacing the pieces you’ve saved from before.
Buttercream
- Put 125g of butter into the bowl with the caramel in andbeat until smooth. Gradually add the icing sugar until it’s pale & smooth.If you have a piping bag, you can pipe a small swirl on top of each muffin,else spoon a generous amount on top. Drizzlethe melted chocolate over the top and finish with a dried banana chip.
