Wheat Germ Muffins

One more healthy, nutritious edition to my Muffins Basket.

This tastes different and absolutely scrumptious!

Ingredients:

Self raising/all purpose flour – 1/2 Cup
Wheat Germ – 1 1/2 Cups
Light Brown Sugar – 1/4 Cup
Salt - 1/2 tsp
2 to 3 ripe, mashed bananas
Milk - 1/2 cup
Crushed wall nuts - little (or as you wish)
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Melted Butter – 1/4 Cup
Almond or Vanilla Essence - 3/4 tsp
Egg - 1
Cream Cheese - 1 Cup

Method:

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 C for 10 minutes

2. Line the muffins tray with muffins paper (I made 6 large muffins)

3. Mixing - Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, and set aside

4. Beat together mashed bananas and egg. Then add milk, butter, sugar, wheat germ, wall nuts and the essence

5. Now, add the the flour mixture and mix well

6. Filling the cups - Divide the mixture between the prepared muffin tray by placing one small amount of batter at the bottom of each muffin cup, followed by 1-2 teaspoon of cream cheese and topping each cup again with enough batter

7. Baking - Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 C

8. Cool for few minutes, and enjoy!

Ragi-Choco Muffin

I know its been a long time since i last blogged!

A lot of Islamic-and-National holidays, along with mom-dad's visit to Muscat, the lovely rain, cold weather and some paintings...kept me busy and lazy all these days!

Now that Mom-Dad have left to India, and work also had resumed...iam back in tune with my daily chores and blogging as well.Day-before-yesterday when i was getting bored and had nothing interesting to do...just felt like baking something new!

The result was this nutritious, protien rich Muffin!

Ingredients:

Self raising/all purpose flour – 1 Cup
Ragi flour – 1/2 Cup
Light Brown Sugar – 3/4 cup
Ground Cinnamon – 1/4 tsp
Crushed wall nuts - 1/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Butter – 30 gms (@ room temp)
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Veg Oil - 3-4 tsps (i used olive oil)
Milk (@ room temperature): 120 ml
Eggs - 2
Cooking chocolate - 4 pieces

Choco chips - as required for the topping

Method:

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 C for 10 minutes

2. Line the muffins tray with muffins paper

3. Beat the wet and dry ingredients separately

4. Then combine them gently together and mix them

5. Divide the mixture between the prepared muffin tray, and top them with choco chips (i used some white chocolate chips too)

6. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 C

7. cool for 20 minutes, and enjoy it simply or with butter.