eggless banana muffins

Eggless Banana Muffins Ingredients:

• All purpose flour (Maida) – 1 and 1/2 cup
• Ripe Banana – 4 (Small Sized, If using bigger Morris Banana use only 2)
• Vanilla Essence – 1/2 tsp
• Sugar – 3/4 cup
• Butter (at room temperature) – 1/3 cup
• Baking soda – 1 tsp
• Baking powder – 1 tsp
• Chopped Cashews – 5
• Salt – a pinch (avoid this if you are using salted butter)
• Milk – 1/4 cup (if needed)
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• Time to Prepare: 1 hr 15 min
  How to Make Eggless Banana Muffins:
  1. Mix All Purpose flour or Maida, Baking Soda, Baking Powder. Sieve the mixed ingredients thrice before starting the beating process (described in Step 4 below). This helps the ingredients to mix well and also removes the air in the flour.
  2. Mash the ripe Bananas well with hand. I do not prefer to puree the Banana in a mixer grinder or a blender. I also powdered the Sugar before starting beating process, since powdered Sugar helps to mix the Butter and Sugar fast.
  3. In a bowl, mix Butter and Sugar and beat well with the help of beater or with whisk. Add the mashed Banana, Vanilla Essence and a pinch of Salt to the this Butter-Sugar mix and beat once to blend and mix well.
  4.  Divide the sieved ingredients (from step 1) into 3 proportions. Add these sieved ingredients to the bowl slowly, bit by bit while you keep beating the batter. If the batter is found thick, add the Milk to batter in increments, slowly (not all at once) when beating. The batter must be of pouring consistency just like the regular Idly or Dosa batter.
  5. Add a few chopped Cashews to the batter and mix once. Do not use up the Cashews completely; hold a few Cashew bits to be used as toppings to be placed on top of Muffins as described in the next step.
  6. Preheat the oven for 190ºC for 10 minutes. Line the Muffins tray with Muffin Cups(I used Aluminum Tray). Fill the Muffin Cups with Banana Muffin batter to about 3/4th of its size and top it with chopped Cashews.
  7. Bake the Eggless Banana Muffins for 20 min in oven by setting the temperature at 190ºC. When baked, the Muffins will expand to fill the cup. Allow to cool completely on wire rack before serving.