Healthy Banana and Oat Breakfast Muffins

Hello Everybody!

I hope you've all had a great Christmas and new year. As you may have seen, I haven't posted since December last year as I took a break to spend time with family and friends. 

But, I'm back to kickstart 2016, the healthy way! I bring to you my healthy banana and oat breakfast muffins. 

Since this year began, I have been making a real effort to eat better foods and cutting the amount of added sugar in my diet. I've always wanted to make breakfast muffins but never found a healthy alternative to the cakes and muffins I love.  I bought a blender, and last week made smoothies to drink before school but I got the idea from my friend Julie to make breakfast muffins this week. This recipe makes 10 muffins but I made 8 to make them bigger. If you would like to make your own banana breakfast muffins, the recipe will be written below. 

I began by getting my ingredients assembled as I find this the easiest way to combine everything if it was in its exact measurements. I opted for brightly coloured muffin cases to make the muffins more fun!

I then combined the dry ingredients and put them to one side.

Putting the hob onto a low heat, I drizzled the honey and butter into a saucepan and melted them together, for this, you really have to keep stirring the two ingredients so they don't brown or burn.

This is the sort of consistency you'd be looking for. 

I peeled and mashed two ripe bananas with my hands and then a fork. 

Add the banana to the honey and butter mixture until they're one puddle in your saucepan. 

Afterwards, I combined both the dry ingredients and the banana mixture. To finish, I scooped an even amount in each muffin case and popped them in the oven for 25 minutes. 

When the muffins were firm and golden brown, I took them out the oven and let them cool before putting them on a plate. They look so lovely and I can't wait to have them during the week!

I hope you enjoyed this post and have a go at them yourself, thankyou for reading. 

See you soon! 

Georgia xo 

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Ingredients

• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 75ml milk
• 1 tsp baking powder heaped 
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 tsp runny honey (or 3 tsp sugar for under 1s) 
• 25g unsalted butter
• 55g porridge oats
• 100g plain flour
• 2 large ripe bananas

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas Mark 5.
2. Line a muffin tin with paper cases.
3. Melt the butter and honey in a saucepan.
4. Mix together all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
5. Mash the banana and mix with the honey and butter.
6. Add this mixture and the milk to the dry ingredients, stirring until mixed lightly.
7. Spoon into the muffin cases (I sprinkle a few oats on top just to make them look a bit prettier!).
8. Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown and firm to touch.