norwegian cooking: Oatmeal Banana Muffins

For a long time time now, I had been thinking of baking something with oatmeal, and also had a couple of bananas begging to be used and some not so sweet strawberries, so I put everything together and made these muffins with whole wheat flour and oatmeal. Thinking of muffins, I always wonder, what is the big difference between cupcakes and muffins, apart from the icing part, both are made in the same pan and almost made from the same ingredients, to me a lighter and sweeter muffin is almost like a cupcake. Well, coming back to these oatmeal muffins, they turned out to be very moist and not too sweet, a good breakfast or even a teatime snack..

Need To Have

Whole Wheat Flour - 1 cup
Oatmeal - 1 cup
Bananas - 2 big, very ripe
Strawberries - 3/4 cup chopped
Milk - 3/4 cup
Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 4 tablespoons
Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
Baking Soda - 1 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract - 1/2 teaspoon
Nutmeg Powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Lemon Juice - 1 + 1/2 tablespoon
Salt - a pinch

Method

Sift the flour with the baking powder and baking soda, mix in the berries and the oatmeal with it. Now, melt the butter in a bowl, add the sugar, mashed bananas, give a mix, then add in the milk, followed by the vanilla extract, salt, nutmeg powder, mix everything well. Now fold in the flour and strawberries mixture, finally add the lemon juice. Spoon it into greased muffin pans and bake it at 350F for 25 to 30 mins.

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