Banachoc muffins

Hey all! Did you have a nice weekend? A nice, intense, and sunny weekend? I did!

And to fill my belly... banana and chocolate muffins! For the dough simply follow this recipe with half the ingredients. Well of course you can use the same amounts if you plan on making many many many muffins, but remember that bananas have to be eaten within a couple of days. For the icing I smashed one banana and mixed it with icing sugar, a spoon of butter, and cocoa powder. And there you are: a very easy recipe which doesn´t look to pretentious but tastes delightful. By the way the way the cases I used are from the Spanish brand Lekue, they are made of silicon, can go in the oven, can be washed in the dishwasher, plus they are really cute, and useful. 

Enjoy ♥

Martina

Bananas in pyjamas

A huge loaf of banana bread is just what you need on Sundays for a lazy breakfast in pyjamas.

Ingredients:

280 gr. brown sugar

600 gr. flour

150 gr. butter at room temperature

2 eggs

4-6 bananas

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

a pinch of salt

Preparation:

Preheat the oven at 170°C. Put the sugar and eggs in a mixer with a whisk and beat until well incorporated. Beat in the bananas you have previously cut in pieces. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger to the sugar mixture and mix until all dry ingredients are well incorporated. Add the soft butter and beat. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake in the oven for about 1 hour or until firm to touch and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Let it cool before eating. Sprinkle with icing sugar and ground hazelnuts and have a delightful breakfast!

By the way I have some news... my recipes are now on Petit Chef! Now these are the first two but I´ll continue posting new ones. I am so happy that my blog got validated and am now able to share my cookery worldwide!!! I hope you´ll take a look and will rate my recipes positively.

Enjoy ♥

Martina

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WafflesYES!

Sunday is kind of a lazy day: you try to recover from Saturday evening and regain your motivation for Monday and this often involves a sofa and a movie. And usually Sunday is the "saddest" day of the week for me because I always have to say goodbye to special people I visit or who visit me... so chocolate is the right way to fuel up body, mind, and heart!

This is why I made chocolate waffles for us all on Sunday! Well "made" is a bit exaggerated, let´s say I assembled them. My boyfriend keeps promising he´ll lend me his waffle machine, but since I still haven´t seen it, I had to buy some ready made ones.

So this is what I did: I went to the supermarket, picked the chocolate ones, payed € 1,99. I went home, opened the package, turned on the oven, placed them in for a couple of minutes. In the meantime I whipped some cream, chopped a banana, took from the shelf the chocolate topping and sprinkles.

Then I just put one thing on top of the other and there you go: extremely delicious and satisfying Sunday waffles!

Enjoy ♥

Martina

P.S. I hope I´ll be able to post the real recipe soon.