Every time I see some overripe bananas sitting on the counter, I think about baking cake but somehow it never happened until recently. Last week I prepared banana-carrot cake and both V and Ishaan loved it.
Yesterday little prince came home asking for some cake. I promised him I will bake him something. I started preparing for the cake and he brought his tiny chair in the kitchen, stood on it and started getting into pretty much everything!. That’s when I thought of playing the "Help me" card – see, he is at an age when he only does what he wants. That sometimes means he will bring out all his toys and dump them in living room. Then he walks out from there. Just to stop him from making more mess, I ask him to come and "Help me". He gets all charged up and helps with anything I ask – like loading/unloading dishwasher, loading/unloading washing machine etc.
This time I thought it would be a good activity for him to line up the muffin pan. He got very excited. I also gave him some chocolate chips and asked him to add to muffins. He loved doing it (although the work which would have taken 2mins took somewhere about 10mins, I enjoyed it). He was very excited to tell his pappa all about it :).
Ingredients:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup almond flour
1 cup mashed banana (2-3 ripe bananas)
1 cup grated carrot
1 tea spn baking powder
1/2 tea spn cardamom powder
1/2 cup oil
1/8th tea spn salt
1 cup sugar
Few chocolate chips (optional)
Method:
Preheat the oven at 350F for 10mins.
Mix banana, carrot, sugar, oil till well mixed.
Seive together baking powder, all purpose flour, almond flour, salt, cardamom powder.
Add the dry ingredients one tbl spn at a time mixing all the time.
Line the muffin tin with muffin cups. Fill the batter to 3/4th of the cup.
Add few chocolate chips on top.
Bake for about 20 mins or till they are done.
PS: Almond flour is a last minute substitution, I thought it would add to the flavor. Just powder some almonds to make a smooth powder. I used store bought almond flour. If you don’t want to use it, just replace with 1/2 cup all purpose flour.
Pictorial:
Loved this recipe, I am surely going to try it out for my kids :).
Let me know how it turns out.
My son and husband love all the cakes/muffins that I make from your site. Thanks for one more. I am sure it will be a hit at home.
Thanks Veena. Let me know how they turn out
Hey I did try the muffins last week. They smelt heavenly and the taste was absolutely amazing. Thx Shilpa.
Recipe looks very nice, will def try….just one question, can I substitute carrot with anything else , not a big fan of carrot cake/muffins
Thanks!!
Just leave it out and follow the recipe
A must try recipe! Such a lovely helping hand…tks for sharing!
wow… cupcakes look delicious… will try them soon…
Can we substitute all purpose flour with whole wheat flour to make it more healthy?
Yes, they will be little dense with whole wheat
Goodness of banana, carrot & almonds.. Sure worth trying:)
Hi, i want to try this muffin . My querries are is it possible to bake this in Microwave oven!? & which oil to add to the receipe??
I think they will come out good in microwave too. I never bake in microwave, so can’t give more info. Sorry :(. I used sunflower oil
Lovely cakes. I ll try this for my little one, a healthy cake.
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Love the cake and your little helpers did line the muffin tray great.
I tried the muffins, they tasted good, but turned to be a little sticky, though I made sure they were cooked well and the knife came out clean when I checked whether its baked. So was a little disappointed. Can we use rawa/wheat flour instead of maida?
Yes, you can use wheat flour, but it will become more dense
I always think of using ripe bananas for baking bread, but it doesn’t always happen so I freeze them these days, works well. These look so good and they are healthy to boot, am going to make it right away!
Hi, the recipe looks great… is there a substitute for Almond flour?
Btw I have a toddler who loves to help too… in fact we have great fun doing things together!
As mentioned in the above post, you can replace it with equal amount of all purpose flour
i tried this muffins and it came superb .as u said above i replaced it with all purpaose flour instead of almond flour.really awesum….yummy.
I made these muffins twice on two different occasions. Substituted almond flour with whole wheat and replaced oil with apple sauce. Reduced the sugar, and replaced half of it with honey. They looked identical to your pictures. The problem was — all of them disappeared within minutes, nothing left for me! Thanks so much, that was so easy and wonderful.
Replacing Oil with apple sauce is a very good idea. What quantity of sugar and honey did you use.
Tried it yesterday and have to tell you every one loved it!! Thanks a bunch for simple and delicious recipe.
Hey reading through your recipe, i realised there was no mention of water or milk to make the batter… I’m quite new to baking. Help asap please, have to take in a cake to work soon! Thanx
It doesn’t need milk or water. Oil and mashed banana gives the required moisture
Thank you for a superfast reply!!! K mission commencing! I am quite hopeful, recipe looks simple and promising 🙂
i just bought a new otg and iam new to baking. I tried this muffins ,it came out so well , we all loved it very much, Thanks for the recipe
Hi Shilpa
I have been waiting to try this recipe for a long time and finally got to it today . The smell was so good but the muffins did not raise and also were very dense and sticky. Since no one else had this problem there might be something wrong with what I have done. I have followed the recipe to the best. Can you suggest what might be the reason for the muffins to have turned out the way they did.
Your adivce would be of great help when I try next time.
Regards
Madhuri.
Sorry, no idea 🙁
Hi,
I wanted to know whether the muffins can also be tried in silicon moulds while baking them.
I think so
Can I use almond four only and no All purpose flour to make it gluten free.
I have never tried baking only with almond flour. Sorry
Hi,
How many does this recipe make? I am planning to bake tomorrow.
Thanks