BANANA BLUEBERRY COCONUT GRANOLA MUFFIN
What do you do when you feel like muffins? You look in your pantry to see what you have and then bake muffins and this is how they turned out.
- 1½ cups (375 ml) 1 for 1 GF flour (regular all-purpose flour will also work)
- 1 cup (250 ml) superfine berry sugar (regular sugar will be fine)
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon table salt
- 4 ounces (110 g) 1 stick unsalted, melted (nuked in the microwave) and cooled down
- 1 extra large egg
- ¼ cup (62.5 ml) + 2 tablespoons (25 ml) buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
- ½ cup (125 ml) mashed ripe bananas
- ½ cup (125 ml) blueberries, dusted with flour
- ½ cup (125 ml) chopped pecan nuts OR cashew
- ½ cup (125 ml) maple granola cereal (or any granola you have available)
- ½ cup (125 ml) unsweetened coconut
- extra unsweetened coconut for topping, optional
Preheat oven to 350°F degrees. (180 ºC)
Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners or if you prefer, you can make jumbo muffins, and then you will have 8 muffins.
In the large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Nuke the butter and let it cool down and then add the melted butter to the flour mixture and blend it with a handheld electric mixer.
Add the egg, buttermilk, vanilla, and mashed bananas and beat well until all ingredients well incorporated and a nice batter formed.
Add the pecans, granola, coconut, and lastly add the flour-dusted blueberries and lightly fold all into the batter.
Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling each ¾ full.
Top with extra coconut (optional).
Bake approximately 25 – 30 minutes (for jumbo) or ± 20 minutes for regular size muffins, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
If you bake regular size muffins, the time may be a tad shorter as I always bake jumbo size muffins.
Take out once done and allow to cool in the pan for ±10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Note:
I used an existing muffin recipe and modified it as I felt like a coconut muffin and had some banana and blueberries that I had to use and then added the granola and nuts for some crunch.
Prepared tried and tested by Esme Slabs
