Banana Muffins

Last Saturday, as being the long (3 day) weekend, I had decided to spend some time in baking, as I feel this one task, really relaxing. The sweet smell of baking gets entirely filled up in my whole apartment and that is no less than an aromatic and therapeutic treatment at some spa. So first thing in the morning I did, I called up my friend and asked him if he is free for sometime in late afternoon. After he confirmed, I googled through some sites to find out some easier recipes for muffins, as this was the first time I was trying them at home on my own. And the one which I decided finally (based on review comments), was banana muffins, for which I am sharing the recipe with you:

For Banana Muffins, you need
250 gm Plain Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp biacrb of soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
3 large ripe bananas
1 egg
70 gm dark brown sugar
50 ml vegetable oil
30 gm raisins

Preheat the oven to 180 C and line 12 medium muffin tins with paper cases. Sift flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and set aside. In a separate bowl, mash bananas and beat them. Beat in egg, oil and sugar. Add mixed dry ingredients gradually and beat them moderately. Spoon 3/4th of muffin tins with batter and put them in oven for 20-25 minutes. To check their readiness, touch them with your fingertip gently, they should spring back.

There were slight variations I did to the original recipe, I added 100 gm of dark chocolate chips in the prepared batter. Also, I garnished the top of muffins with blanched almonds before putting them in oven.

Oh, I forgot to mention that these beautiful shots were taken by my friend.