Banana Lemon & Honey Muffins

Since I was home today I thought I would bake some muffins. Got a bit creative and adapted a recipe to what I had at home.The muffins originally were lemon and blueberry but I turned it into banana, lemon and honey muffins.They were light inside,with a crunch top which was great. When I created this recipe I simply chucked in what I thought might go together and they turned out pretty good thanks to a great base recipe from Lovely Little Kitchen .

Adapted from Lovely Little Kitchen 

Makes 24 standard muffins

Ingredients  

Muffin

- 3 cups Self-Rising Flour 

- 1 cup Vegetable Oil

- 1 & 1/4 cups sugar

- 1 cup Yogurt (Greek or plain) 

- 2 Large Eggs 

- Zest of one Lemon Zest

- 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice 

- 2 Medium Ripe Bananas (Mashed) 

- 3 Tablespoons Honey 

- 1 cup Rolled Oats

Optional: Berries or Nuts 

Crunchy Topping
- 5 tablespoons cold cubed butter
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup sugar

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 210°C fan- forced and grease or line a muffin tray with cupcake liners.
2. Make the crunchy topping : place the flour,sugar and cold butter into a medium bowl. Then using a pastry cutter or a fork, mix the ingredients until they form small crumbs of flour coated butter.
3. Measure out the flour into a bowl.
4. In a bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, place the sugar,oil and eggs , mixing until it is smooth.
5. In another bowl mix the yogurt,lemon zest,lemon juice, mashed banana and honey then add to the egg mixture and blend until well combined. 
6. Slowly add the flour into the mixture until it is incorporated.
7. Fold in the oats (and the optional berries and nuts) 
8. Fill the muffin tray 3/4 full and sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of the crunchy topping on top. 
9. Bake for 3 minutes and then reduce the oven to 160°C and bake for 18- 23 minutes until the muffins have a golden top and spring back at the touch.
10. Take the muffins out of the tin.
11. Serve warm or allow to cool.

Tips & Notes 

*Add berries such as blueberries, raspberries. or nuts such as pecans,walnuts or almond chopped or dried fruit chopped up. 

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