Easy Holiday Banana Spice Muffins with Mixed Fruits
These tasty banana spice muffins brings back the flavors of the holiday. Delicately spiced and filled with sweet dried fruits and bananas, these muffins make a simple, wonderful holiday treat.
And the best part it that it takes only 10 minutes to prepare.
If you are making muffins as gifts (healthy, delicious and cheap!), you can pre-mix batches of muffin batter and refrigerate or freeze.
You can keep refrigerated pre-mix batter for 3 days or frozen batter for 1 month. And whenever you are ready to "gift or celebrate", simply load up the muffin pan and bake for fresh, hot spice muffins!
Happy Holidays!
Servings: 12 muffins
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Bake time: 20 minutes
Comments:
You can replace buttermilk with sour cream or by souring 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Ingredients:
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups self-raising flour
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup buttermilk
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup mixed dried fruit, finely chopped
2 teaspoons mixed spice
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400ºF/200ºC.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, mixed spice and mix.
3. In a separate bowl, combine bananas, eggs, buttermilk, and mix.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, and stir until just combined. Be careful not to overmix (over mixing the batter will yield tough, rubbery muffin).
5. Stir in dried fruits.
6. Spoon batter into paper muffin cups about 2/3 cups full.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
8. Allow to cool before removing from muffin pan.
P.S. I’d love to hear your comments about how your Holiday Banana Spice Muffins turned out.
* Holiday Gift Idea *
Seal and freeze the pre-mix muffin batter into decorative sealed zip-lock bags or air-tight containers, with instructions to bake (and thaw) for a special and memorable holiday gift. Download your favorite free printable recipe cards from the internet.
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