Banana and weetbix muffins

Our Family Day Carer passed this recipe on to me a couple of weeks ago. She got it given to her by another parent and assured me they were worth a try. I figured any home-baked treat for the kids lunch boxes that contains fruit and wholegrain cereal is worth a shot. Happily, these were a huge hit with my kids, and a friend's kids whom I road-tested them on when we had a play date.

They did take a little longer to prepare than the recipe I usually use, but the kids and I had a fun morning baking together and they especially loved crushing up the weetbix and taking turns adding ingredients and mixing :)

Ingredients: 

Bowl 1

1 1/2 cups self raising flour
2 TBS brown sugar
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Bowl 2

2 eggs
3 TBS oil

Bowl 3

3 ripe bananas, mashed
4 weetbix, crushed (I used the Aldi brand)
1 cup milk

Method: 

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius, and line a muffin tray with patty pans

Add each of the ingredients to its designated bowl. Once you've added the banana, weetbix and milk to bowl 3, let it soak for 10 minutes.

Beat the eggs and oil (bowl 2) well

After the 10 minutes is up, add the beaten eggs and oil (Bowl 2) to your other wet ingredients (Bowl 3)

Combine Bowl 1's contents (flour, sugar, choc chips), and then mix in the mixed wet ingredients (Bowl 1) until just combined, do not over mix

Spoon mixture into a prepared muffin tray and bake for approximately 25 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

Notes:

This made us a batch of 24 cupcake-sized muffins, but if you use the larger muffin cases I would guess you'd get at least a dozen. These were delicious on the day we baked them, and the left overs froze well for later use in the kids lunch boxes.

All ready for the freezer