Banana Choc Muffins

by Tenina Holder

I have been so busy that blogging has been taking a back seat...you may have noticed. I have so much on my plate literally and figuratively that life is never dull....can we talk??

New book underway, food shoot is imminent
Daughter getting married
Christmas cooking class development
Christmas book project...(Don't get excited, may not emerge till 2013 at the rate I am going!)
Usual end of year stuff
Daughter getting married, (repeating myself I know, but it rates another mention)
Crio Bru is going crazy in a good way
You Tube Videos
All the usual stuff that family life entails
Trip to Melbourne for engagement party
The sudden passing of a dear friend
The final stuff for my last child through Year 12, harrowing at best
Aging with the video evidence to prove it
Renovating the gardens, if the For Food's Sake book sales continue well...(did you get your copy yet?)

UM...thinking that lot is a pretty good list of excuses, but wait, there's more! But you will have to wait. Time is of the essence here, must get this out to you ASAP.

This morning I woke up early (thank you whoever rang me at 6.03 am) and I started thinking about how fast life is passing. I remember almost leisurely mornings when I used to be a gym junkie, and then whip up a batch of muffins all before 7.30am. Those days are long gone but in a moment of nostalgia, I made these. Hope you enjoy, and instead of hurtling towards an inevitable death, try and slow down a little to smell the fragrant baking of muffins in your kitchen along the way! Happy baking.

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Need

50 g sugar
85 g butter
1 egg
200 g bananas, peeled
1 tsp Vanilla - Bean Paste Heilala vanilla bean paste BUY
Pinch Pink Salt Flakes Pink salt flakes BUY
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
250 g Flour-Plain flour BUY
300 g choc chunks

Do

1: Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line a 12 hole muffin tin with silicone or paper liners.
2: Place sugar into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10.
3: Add butter, egg, bananas, vanilla, salt, baking soda and powder and blend 10 sec/speed 6. Scrape down sides of bowl and lid.
4: Add flour and blend 12 sec/Interval.
5: Add chocolate and blend 4 sec/speed 6.
6: Divide batter between muffin holes and bake 18 minutes or until puffed and golden.