Truth be told, I hate cooking. I have an irrational fear of fire and spitting oil so I might prepare the ingredients and all but I end up still leave the actual cooking itself to my helper. :X
(also why I don’t like steamboat — why pay to go out to a restaurant only to have to cook your own food!? Mind boggling wtf)
But my New Year’s resolution was actually to uhh associate self more with making food wtf whether it’s cooking or baking. Even if I don’t actually wield the spatula and wok, I figure it’s good to learn more about cooking and food la and try out more new recipes. If I’m ever stuck on a desert island (and assuming I know how to hunt/forage) I can uhh cook myself some fish and I’d know when it’s really cooked (as opposed to still being sushi) wtf.
Which is why today I decided to start with something simple – banana muffins!
I’d actually saw a recipe for it before and it looked mighty simple. But then I forgot about it until our Bangkok trip when Ming’s fiancee Patty showed up with a box of mini banana muffins! And they were so yummy! Fighter loved them too so ok obvious choice to start with.
Got my recipe off this website. Not gonna bother recreating her recipe here because it’s mad simple and she deserves the credit anyway hehehe.
So okay! Got my shit together. Lol.
Ingredients are super simple – flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, banana, egg, butter. Exact measurements are in the link above.
The recipe was for a 12-muffin batch and thank god I remembered just in time to halve everything cos my pan is for 6 muffins haha.
Told Fighter Imma make muffins for him and he gave me this face. And then I screeched cos I realized he’d picked up my butter knife. -_-
Okay anyway! First things first, mash some bananas. Easy peasy banana squeezy.
Five minutes later…
Why these bananas cannot mash finish one I swear I’m making up new muscles in my arm.
In the meantime I also melted butter.
Had to google “how to melt butter”
(oh just put in microwave and defrost! …. which is the defrost button?)
And two seconds later, had to google “what is a cup” WTF cos the recipe called for measurements in cups hahaha.
Anyway I found a plastic cup with measurements on its side lying around and used that.
Mixed the banana, melted butter, a beaten egg and sugar together. The recipe called for a half cup of sugar and I’d already halved it and it still looked like a lot!
Gestational diabetes, is that you coming for me?
At this point I worried cos I wasn’t sure if my mashed bananas were mashed enough. There were still lumps floating about! I knew that recipe was too easy — why didn’t they say if there should be lumps or not? How would I know!
Mashed as best I could and figured the lumps could be like a surprise for the eater wtf. Like tadah extra banana for you! *furtive eyes
I mixed the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder together in another bowl, then mixed the whole lot together to form a paste-y looking mixture.
And then I had to grease the pan. Texted friends to ask if I should melt the butter before greasing. :X They said no.
Asked what can I use to grease the pan? They said a brush or greasing paper.
I asked what if I don’t have a brush or greasing paper? They said a spoon? Or your fingers?
Tadah! Pulled out Fighter’s Combi baby spoon hahaha. Made of rubber and rounded so it wouldn’t scratch the pan!
But then I ended up using my fingers anyway to make sure the butter was evenly spread out.
Carefully ladled out the batter into the cups. At this point feeling very dejected cos the mixture looks like lau sai la wtf and I can still see the lumps of banana. -_- Also second guessing myself whether I halved ALL the measurements or just some only. O_O
And I’d thought I need to fill the cups up to the brim but there wasn’t enough batter. D: So each muffin would turn out a distorted different size. >:(
Popped it into the oven and set the timer!
Shit timer not working wtf. Okay I’ll just check my phone clock and take it out when it’s done.
Then I uhhh went to watch Hi 5 with Fighter wtf. And kinda forgot about it.
Only when my helper shouted it looks burnt did I rush back. FML. 
Not yet twenty minutes yet as per the recipe though! Scrambled for a toothpick to test moisture but whole house don’t have!
So I got my helper to take a kitchene chopper to whittle a chopstick into a toothpick. And then we realized whoops oven still running with muffins inside. D:
Anyway this is our homemade toothpick. I’m a lumberjack wtf. Not bad right hahahaha. Luckily helper found a disposable chopstick or else I was gonna use a nice one wtf.
Yes, people told me later I could have used a fork or a knife. T_T I didn’t know I thought knife or fork would create a big ugly gaping hole. T_T #noob
Doesn’t look too bad right! Didn’t occur to me that muffins would puff up and everything will look nice and even!
Haven’t tasted any yet though, waiting for Fighter to wake up so we can eat together hehehe.
P/S: OMG after how long I can finally tag this as AudDomestic lolol.
Comments (20)
Looks so nice! Did the muffins stick to the pan? Mine always do and I have to use muffin paper liners haha!
reading your blog makes me so happy !
Can try putting the muffins in lower third rack so that the top won’t get burnt or brown too fast 😉
haha can use a piece of dried spaghetti/noodle also
For an easy way to make mashed bananas, freeze them in their peel and then defrost them. Easy mushy banana and no need to waste any energy mushing them. You can use less sugar if you want to but not too little as the sugar is required to help the baking process. Good luck with baking, it is actually easier than cooking as cooking is usually agak agak whereas you just follow the recipe in baking.
I use the same recipe as you and I halve the sugar amount to half, as in just 1/4 cup, for the complete 12 muffins. I use organic bananas and I let them ripen a bit more than usual so that I can get the natural sweetness to be really present in the muffin. Hence, the lessened amount of sugar.
ooh thanks! for my next batch imma try to reduce the sugar too.
wah you baking sifu! thank you for the tip, will try it out. but means i cannot last minute decide to make muffins haha need to prepare earlier
so smart! i totally didn’t think of that
oh didn’t know that, thanks! but if i do, does it mean it will take longer to bake?
ahhaha thanks but why?
no didn’t! i made sure to really grease the pan well. didn’t use paper cos the paper cups i bought didn’t fit D:
You’re welcome! One more tip: you can use vegetable/sunflower/canola oil instead of melted butter. Just don’t use peanut or olive oil because these oils do affect the taste. When greasing the muffin pan, just use a kitchen paper towel soaked in oil. And don’t worry about the lumpy bananas – they are supposed to be lumpy! 🙂
Hey Aud, how’s the banana muffin? Looks good though 😀
Usually the recipe on Google is a tad too sweet one. But baking & cooking is all about experimenting right? I hope this won’t be your last AudDomestic post. Looking forward to more mouth watering post from you 🙂
Also, when greasing the pan, you can just use some kitchen roll instead of baking paper. Means your fingers don’t get messy but you can still make sure it’s all evenly greased! 🙂
Great job! Next you can replace bananas with peaches, blueberries, strawberries or raspberries! Looking forward to more domestic posts 🙂
wah wah slow down hahahaah. thanks will try more recipes soon!
thank you! someone suggested it on dayre also ^^
the banana muffin turned out very yummy!
the fastest way and easiest way to mash a banana is using a hand mixer or food processor.. very ripe banana taste alot better.. i normally reduce the sugar level and also use parchment paper to line the pans (dont need to be very nice ones / can buy those muffin liners)… you can refer to kitchentigress recipes.. it’s not too sweet and easy to make.. with videos as well.. 🙂