Banana & Sultana Muffins

They're also great if you would like to get some more fruit in your diet but aren't big on fruit a La Naturelle.By the way, bananas are a great choice of fruit to include in a balanced healthy diet.

If you don't mind butter and not worried about fat then use butter instead of light marg spread.

Ingredients

• 150g light margarine, melted for 20 secs in microwave
• ¾ cup caster sugar (aka superfine sugar)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla essence
• 3 bananas, over ripe,mashed
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. bi-carb soda
• ½ cup hot milk
• 2 cups plain flour, sifted (with the baking powder)
• ¼ cup sultanas

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200C (400F).
2. Set up your muffin tin and line with 12 muffin patty cups.
3. In a mixer place melted margarine and sugar and mix well on med speed for approx 5 mins.  Add vanilla essence.
4. Turn speed down to low, add eggs one at a time until incorporated.
5. Stop mixing and with a spoon mix in mashed banana carefully.
6. Heat milk (in a large cup) in microwave for 30 sec so it is hot and add the baking(bi-carb) soda, it will foam.
7. Now add to the banana mixture, gently.
8. Sift in flour and baking powder together into the mixture, not all at once, in thirds.
9. Now gently add the sultanas, mix in with a wooden spoon.
10. Divide mixture into 12 patty pans and sprinkle some additional sultanas on top, optional.
11. Bake at 200°C for 20-25mins, testing with a skewer in centre that no mixture sticks to skewer.