Banana & Salted Caramel Muffins

These muffins combine two of my favourite ingredients: Banana & Caramel. When I saw this recipe from Everyday Gourmet appear in my Facebook newsfeed, I knew I had to try it.

 

It’s an easy recipe to put together, and it’s also a great one for little helpers.

 

Although I was VERY generous pouring the caramel sauce over the muffins (because you can NEVER have too much caramel), there was still some leftover (what a shame!) so I just had to add even more to the muffin I just had to try!

I loved these, the muffins are really light and the salted caramel sauce is just divine.  This is one recipe I will definitely make again, I think next time I will add chopped walnuts or pecans to make these even more incredible.

To make these sensational muffins, you will need:

1 ¾ cups plain flour

¾ cup caster sugar 

1 tsp. baking powder

¼ teaspoon of baking soda

¼ teaspoon of salt 

1 teaspoon of  cinnamon 

3 large eggs, lightly beaten 

½ cup unsalted butter – melted 

3 ripe large bananas mashed , plus one extra banana to decorate.

3 tablespoons of milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

– Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease and line muffin tray (makes approximately 16 muffins).

– Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and cinnamon into a large bowl. Add the caster sugar and stir with a large metal spoon.

– Combine the milk, eggs, vanilla extract and bananas in a medium bowl and whisk together.

– Add milk mixture and melted butter to dry ingredients and gently fold together.  Make sure you don’t over mix, the mixture will still be thick and lumpy.

– Spoon into muffin tins and bake for 20 minutes until cooked through when tested with a skewer. Allow to cool in tins for 5 minutes and then remove and place on a wire rack.

While the muffins are cooking you can make the caramel sauce.  You will need:

75g  unsalted butter
50 g  brown sugar
50 g caster sugar
50g golden syrup
60mls double cream
Sea salt flakes

– In a medium saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, caster sugar, golden syrup and cream and stir until melted over a medium heat.

– Allow sauce to simmer for approximately 5 minutes until the sauce has thickened slightly.

– Spoon sauce over warm muffins, sprinkle with sea salt flakes and add slices of fresh banana.

**  To help reduce mess, place a sheet of baking paper underneath the wire rack when spooning caramel sauce over muffins.

Enjoy!!

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