Banana Nut Wholewheat Muffins With Weetabix

Weetabix in a muffin!!!! That’s my secret ingredient for delicious wholewheat banana nut muffins. A little taste of Ireland and England, crumbled into the baking mix adds extra whole grains and fiber.

Muffins were a new concept for me when I first moved to America over twenty years ago. Sweet breakfast treats were not on the menu in my Irish childhood years.

In the time I have lived in the United States I have grown to love muffins. Using wholewheat flour and weetabix makes these special treats just a little less indulgent.

 

Here you’ll find a quick list of what you’ll need for this recipe. Check out the printable recipe at the bottom of this post for US and Metric equivalent versions of the recipe. There you can choose the measurement system that works best for you.

 

Directions for Banana Nut Whole Wheat Muffins:

 

Here you’ll find step-by-step photographic instructions to help you recreate this recipe successfully. There are plenty of tips included along the way.

To get started preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. I can’t tell you how many times I have forgotten to turn the oven on before I start baking. Then I try to put my bread or muffins into a cold oven.

It’s a disaster when using baking soda, since the chemical reaction gets started once the wet ingredients meet the dry. Everything goes flat waiting for a warm oven. Glad to get that little confession off my chest. Luckily my husband eats my cooking disasters and isn’t at all fussy.

Line the muffin tray with paper liners too before you get started.

To make the muffins add the wheat germ to the whole wheat flour in a large mixing bowl.

Sift the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into the bowl.

You probably don’t need to sift the flour, but I do it all the time. I can still hear my home economics teacher from Ireland warning:

“Always sieve white flour, girls.”

So sifting white flour is a habit of mine.

Toss the sugar in with the flour.

Next come the weetabix. Here is a picture of two wholewheat biscuits before crumbling. I just use my fingers to break them up into little pieces. If you like you can put them in a plastic bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. I find my fingers do just fine.

Add the weetabix crumbles to the flour mixture.

Next come the walnuts.

Then the dessicated coconut. Mix up all the dry ingredients.

In another bowl lightly beat the eggs and add the milk.

Then comes the vanilla extract.

Melted butter is poured in next. Make sure the butter is not too hot or your eggs will curdle. Add a little bit first and mix to let the eggs adjust to the slightly increased temperature, before drowning them in butter.

Make a well in the flour mixture and pour the liquids in. Mix well together.

Mash the bananas. I make this recipe whenever I have overripe bananas. My kids love bananas.

Sometimes I have to buy bananas everyday and sometimes they sit for a day or two and go a little brown. My kids won’t touch them if they see any banana freckles.

Banana bread and these muffins help me use up those speckled bananas, without having to turn into a monkey myself and eat all the extra bananas. I hate waste!!!!

Mix the bananas into the muffin mix. It should look like this.

Scoop the mixture into the prepared muffin tray. I love to use my ice cream scoop for this job. I find I get exactly 24 equal muffins with this nifty little tool.

I like to decorate the top of my muffins with crushed banana chips.

I also like to use some more crushed weetabix as decoration. Usually I do 12 of each kind.

Bake them in the pre-heated oven for 25 minutes. When cooked a kinfe inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean.

Cool a little before serving. I love to eat my muffins with a lovely big glass of cold milk.

I hope you enjoy my Irish American fusion muffin recipe.

Here’s the printable recipe:

Thanks for following my recipes and ramblings.

 

Slán agus beannacht,

(Goodbye and blessings)

 

Irish American Mom

P.S. Weetabix can be purchased online from Food Ireland. You can learn more about their products and where to purchase Irish food online in the United States here.

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