Chocolate Heart Muffins Recipe
A couple of weeks ago I bought a heart baking muffin tray as I thought that will be really good for Valentine’s Day baking. But my eldest insisted that I should bake some muffins this week and as I am a good mother I gave in and made this muffins which are a bit of an adaptation from Nigella’s chocolate banana muffins.
Ingredients:
- 3 very ripe bananas
- 200g unsalted butter – melted
- 3 eggs
- 100g brown sugar
- 225g plain flour
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 50g of powder sugar
- 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
What else you will need:
- heart shape muffin baking tray
- big bowl
- potato masher or a mixer
- a wooden spoon
Preparation:
Preheat you oven at 180C.
Peal and put the banana in the big bowl. Mash using the potato masher – which is really great for this job or just using a mixer.
Next one by one add the melted butter , eggs and sugar. Mix using the wooden spoon now.
Start adding the flour mixed with the cocoa powder and bicarb. I like adding the flour bit by bit and mix well before adding another spoon. When all the dry ingredients are mixed in prepare the muffin case. Now my muffin tray has teflon and it’s not sticky but if yours is make sure to wipe the interior with some of the melted butter.
Spoon the batter into the heart muffin shapes and bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. When they are ready allow them to cool before taking them out of the tin.
When cool put them on a wire rack and sprinkle with some powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon. This will give them a great taste that your kids will adore.
21 Comments
Trish
I really must stop coming over here when feeling a bit peckish.
These muffins look super – quite flat but, I Imagine, with the banana, very moist.
Manneskjur
So hungry looking at these Otilia – I too would love to make my own pork pie one day!
Liz Burton
Those little heart muffins look adorable – they’d be great for a lunchbox.
And I’m eyeing up those cute potato boats too.
Otilia
yes they do. quite healthy and satisfying.
Jennifer
They look absolutely delicious, I have pinned them to try!
Otilia
let me know how it went
Nikki Thomas
ooh those look so lovely. I tried a banana and chocolate cake a few weeks ago and I was surprised how much I liked it. I will try these
Otilia
I love banana in cakes as it makes them sweet and i don’t have to add lots of sugar.
Boo Roo and Tigger Too
Loving your chocolate heart muffin recipe, I’m sure the children will love these #FoodieFriday
Otilia
It’s interesting how changing the shapes it makes them loving them more.
Katie @ AMotherThing
Oh man, those look awesome. My kids would have them gone in about 2 minutes!
Otilia
More or less it happened the same in our house 🙂
Grace @ Eats Amazing
These look lovely – banana and chocolate is such a great combination!
Galina V
These muffins sound delightful. Perfect for a chocoholic like me.
Jayne
Gorgeous looking muffins – and that pork pie is making me so hungry!
Amanda
Hearts AND Chocolate…a match made in heaven!
Michelle Twin Mum
Ohh those muffins look good for a little after school snack. Mich x
Angela
I do like a nice chocolate muffin and i love these cute heart ones, I bet they soon got eaten up.
Angela
Michelle Reeves (bodfortea)
Eek! Just realised that you’ve got a sweet theme this week and I’ve linked up with my easy peasy special fried rice recipe 🙁 I’ll add another link to my Eton Mess recipe too so feel free to delete the savoury one! x
thisdayilove
They do look lovely. Thanks for joining in with Linked
Pingback: