Low Fat Banana Muffins

I was tempted to make another batch of brownies today because I found a great recipe but then thought 'anyone who reads this is going to think I have a bit of an obsession with chocolate if I don't put something else in a while'. So I thought about what I had in the house and the two close-to-death bananas came to mind. 

Rather than having a recipe in mind for this one, I went online and found a low fat banana loaf recipe. Since I wasn't keen on slicing it into bits (I always find I give myself far too generous a slice...) I made them into little muffins. 

Ingredients:

2 large bananas

1 teaspoon baking soda

120 ml Total 0% Yogurt (which I LOVE)

60 ml sunflower oil

175 grams brown sugar

1 large egg

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

130 grams plain flour

60 grams wholemeal flour

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking powder

Some honey (optional)

• Pop the oven onto 180 degrees. 
• Begin by mashing the bananas and mixing them with the yogurt. Add the baking soda and leave to do it's magic while you prepare the other items. 
• Mix the oil, sugar, egg and vanilla extract in another bowl. It will turn a gorgeous brown colour and become an oily mass when you can mix around quite soothingly. (Or maybe that's just me...)
• Seive together your flours, the cinnamon and baking powder in another bowl (I apologise in advance for all the washing up you'll have to do afterwards) and create a well in the middle
• Mix the yogurt gloop and the soothing oily gloop together and add slowly to the dry flour mixture. 
• It will look horrid - trust me. Bit of banana creating little pockets of white, but trust me it's fine if it looks like this. 
• Distribute the mixture evenly between 12 muffin cases in a muffin tray. Make sure the one you intend to have is slightly larger than the others. 
• Pop into the oven and let cook away for about 20 minutes. After that, bring them out, poke em with a cocktail stick to make sure they're cooked all the way through and voila!

I drizzled on some honey as soon as I took them out the oven so they were still soft enough for it to seep all the way through the muffin. Definitely a good option I'd say. Another option would be to try the Total Yogurt with honey in it - might add a nice little kick to the recipe.

Oh and don't do the washing up now. Have one while they're still warm with a nice cup of tea then guilt your partner into doing the dishes later. Sorted.

Weight Watchers ProPoints: 5

Calories: 175