Now, I had those impulse buys again. I saw some really nice fresh Korean strawberries on the shelves the other day and just could not resist getting a box. But after that I was scratching my head to figure out what to do with them. I came to the outcome of muffins. While doing some searches, I came across a banana and strawberry combo. Since I already got some bananas frozen in the fridge, I’d thought I’d try this flavour combination. Mind you, it was pretty new to me.
I love these liners I just got on a whim too. I thought they looked very cheery. I must say thought, when I tried using a halved berry to deco the top, the muffin blew up and pushed it to the sides of course. Haha, no worries, they still looked lovely. A little touch of green and it looks so lush. Of course you can do some frosting on top and place a whole berry, but as usual, I don’t bother with frosting muffins unless there’s a really special occasion. I also added some milk to the mix because I thought the batter came out a little dough-y, not really loose enough to be a muffin batter, but play this by eye. If your’s came out dough-y, then add the milk, if it doesn’t, then skip the milk.
My son loved it, actually he loves almost anything I bake, whenever I make a batch of any muffins, I would leave on the kitchen table to cool, he would peer over the toddler gate and go ‘I WANT! I WANT!’ pointing at those batch of muffins. Look at him enjoying his muffin (below). I tried to get him to give me a thumbs up sign, either he was too shy or he couldn’t care less and wanted to eat his muffin in peace.
Strawberry Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large ripe bananas mashed
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup fresh strawberries hulled and cut to pieces
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 180C. Line a muffin tray with 10 liners (I got 10 reasonable portions out of this but you could also get about 12 slightly smaller sized ones)
- Melt the butter and set it aside to cool.
- Whisk together the brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, and mashed bananas. Add melted butter and stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Dust the chopped berries with a little flour. (I kept aside 5 berries and halved them to place on top later, but this is optional)
- Add wet ingredients to dry and stir till just combined.
- Divide the batter evenly among the liners. Bake till muffin tops are firm and brown or cake tester comes out clean when inserted into the muffins.
- Leave to cool on a rack.
I am linking this to the Bake-Along blog hop event hosted by Joyce of Kitchen Flavours , Lena of Frozen Wings and Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids.
Hi Sharon,
Lovely muffins! Your cute little son sure is enjoying it! The combination of bananas and strawberries sounds delicious!
It would be great if you could mention Bake-Along somewhere in your post! Nice to meet you thru Bake-Along! Thank you for linking and hope to see you again!
Have a lovely day!
Hi Sharon, your boy looks so happy with the muffins. I really like your cupcake liners, so cute!
thanks yen, he didnt utter a word at all when i was taking his photo, he just wanted to get back to his makan.
hi sharon, it’s okay we are accepting your muffins post. yeah, never eaten a banana strawberry combo but your son has proven it all..good! btw, they look very pretty! put a link back to one of us, ya.
done!
Hi Sharon,
The combination of strawberry and banana sounds so yummy! You must be a proud mum feeding your boy so well 😀
Nice to know via bake-along. Hope to bake-along more in the future 😀
Zoe
hi Zoe, i think im one of those fortunate mums out there whose boy has a hearty appetite. Haha, and yes he loves his baked goods!
Hi Sharon,
I am attracted by your lovely strawberries and pretty cupcake liners!!
Oh!! Banana and strawberries seems like a wonderful combo.
Your cute boy have proven it is very yummy yummy!!
mui
Thanks Doreen, i also never heard of such combo and decided to try it out. It was great and my son really enjoy eating it! 🙂
wow the muffins look incredibly good…im sure it will taste good too! 😀
yes, the combination actually worked well.