Kelly Lou's Oaty Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Fri, 16 September 2016

Makes approx 15 muffin/cupcake size muffins.

Ingredients:

- 280g plain flour

- 2 tsp baking powder

- 1/2 tsp bread soda

- 1/4 tsp salt

- 100g caster sugar

- 50g oats

- 1 egg

- 250ml buttermilk

- 75ml oil

- Vanilla extract

- 2 small bananas

- Chocolate chips

Method:

- In a large bowl mix together your dry ingredients: flour, sugar, oats, bread soda, baking powder and salt.

- In a spectate bowl mix together your wet ingredients: buttermilk, egg, oil and vanilla extract.

- Simply add your wet ingredients to your dry and combine together. Just mix until you can't see anymore flour, don't over mix. 

- (At this stage you have made your basic muffin mix which can be kept in a fridge for 3 days.)

- With a fork mash your bananas and add to your muffin batter.

- Sprinkle in some chocolate chips.

- Scoop your batter into a lined cupcake tin.

- Sprinkle some extra oats on top.

- Bake in a preheated oven of 175 degrees for 18 minutes.

The best thing about these muffins is the batter can be kept in a fridge for a few days so busy families can make up the batter in advance and bake them fresh each morning.

Other muffin flavours you can make with your basic muffin mix:

- Blueberry & lemon zest

- Raspberry & white chocolate

- Lemon & poppy seed

- Nutella swirl

- Bannoffee

- Mixed berry