Banana, Chocolate & Fudge Muffins

Ingredients

• 3 very ripe banana’s
• 125ml vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 250g flour
• 100g caster sugar
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½  a chocolate bar approximately 50g
• 25g fudge

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees/gas mark 6 and prepare you muffin cases.

Mash the bananas and set aside for a moment.

Pour the oil into a jug and beat in the eggs.

Put the flour, sugar, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a large bowl and mix in the beaten egg and oil mixture, followed by the mashed bananas.

Fold in the chocolate & fudge then place equal quantities in the prepared muffin cases.

Bake for 15-20 mins or until golden brown, then enjoy!!!!! 

Mini Wholemeal Pitta Bread stuffed with Baby Plum Tomatoes, Chicken and Diced Yam

This is a quick and easy recipe that makes a great snack or light dinner.

Ingredients        

• Handful of baby plum tomatoes, chopped into fours
• 2 grilled chicken breasts, diced
• 1 slice of yam, boiled & cut into small cubes.

In a small pan drizzle some olive oil, and slowly fry the baby tomatoes. Season with some salt and pepper and allow it to fry for about 2 minute.

Once the tomatoes have become soft add the remaining ingredients into the pan and allow everything to cook for about 5 minutes.  

Warm up a few mini pitta’s in a toaster. Once ready slice the pitta’s in half and stuff with the Baby Plum Tomatoes, Chicken and Diced Yam mixture.

Serves 2

Happy Easter!!

Hi,

I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend!!!!

Bank Holiday Monday is always such a lazy day for me, trying to recuperate from all the festivities that might have taken place over the Easter weekend. So I thought to myself, I am going to make some brownies and have it with ice-cream!! Really… can you think of a better way to round off the festivities and get ready for the week ahead!!! I can’t!

I must admit I did cheat a bit in that I used Betty Crocker’s brownie mix and didn’t make them from scratch, but like I said earlier I was having such a lazy day!!!

Either way the end result was fantastic.

I have also posted a simple recipe that you can use to make the brownies from scratch if you wish to go down that route.

Enjoy!!

A Recipe from Scratch

Ingredients

Makes nine 2 1/2-inch squares

• 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, cut into large pieces
• 6 ounces (170g) bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 cups sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, sifted

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment, leaving a slight overhang on all sides. Melt butter and chocolate in a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat, and whisk in sugar. Whisk in eggs, 1 at a time, until combined. Whisk in cocoa and salt. Fold in flour until combined.
2. Pour batter into pan. Bake until set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with moist crumbs, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool slightly in pan, about 15 minutes. Lift brownies from pan using parchment. Remove parchment, and transfer to a wire rack. Let cool completely. Cut into 9 squares.

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