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Thug Kitchen’s Peanut Butter and Banana Nut Muffins made by The Fat Foodie

A while ago, one lazy Sunday morning I fancied something sweet for breakfast and had recently bought Thug Kitchen’s first cookbook so I made their peanut butter and banana nut muffins. In general I’m not a massive fan of the American ‘cup method’ of baking, but in this instance it works brilliantly, allowing you to pretty much chuck all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl and just whisk it all together. It’s certainly a very quick and easy way to produce a delicious low FODMAP bake!

They also don’t take very long to cook at all, so if you make a snap decision one morning to have them for breakfast (or a snack) you’ll only need to wait half an hour or so until you can get stuck into them. I expected the peanut butter and banana nut muffins to be very sweet, but they weren’t overly so and in actual fact they paired really well with a little bit of vegan butter and jam on the side. I’ll bet they’d be divine with some vegan caramel spread on top of them too.

I think you could really take some liberties with the ingredients of these muffins, if you wanted to. For instance, you could substitute the peanut butter for another low FODMAP nut butter you had in your kitchen. Likewise, I think the walnuts could be swapped with pecans to great effect. And I dare say that the addition of half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon to the mix would be welcomed.

These muffins do have quite a dense texture, probably due to the inclusion of the heavy peanut butter and banana, which results in an almost ‘bready’ crumb, but they’re really tasty and made for a wonderfully easy and luxurious Sunday morning breakfast in bed. Needless to say, they’re firmly on my go-to breakfast muffin list now.

Ingredients:

2 cups of gluten-free self-raising flour (I use Dove’s Farm G/F Self-Raising Flour)

1 tbsp. of baking powder

1/2 tsp. of salt

1/2 a cup of crunchy peanut butter

1/2 a cup of brown sugar

3/4 cup of rice milk (or normal milk if you’re not vegan)

1 & 1/2 cups of mashed firm banana

1 tsp. of vanilla extract

1/2 a cup of chopped walnuts

Method:

Preheat your oven to 190C/170C Fan/375F/Gas mark 5 and lay out at least 12 large muffin cases in a muffin tin.

Put all of your wet ingredients into a large mixing bowl and whisk together.

Add the dry ingredients to the bowl and whisk.

Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases ensuring a roughly equal amount in each of them.

Bake for 18 to 22 mins or until a skewer poked into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.

Leave to cool slightly and then enjoy either plain or with butter/vegan butter, and jam or vegan caramel.

Thug Kitchen’s Peanut Butter and Banana Nut Muffins made by The Fat Foodie

Thug Kitchen’s Peanut Butter and Banana Nut Muffins made by The Fat Foodie

Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Banana Muffins Made by The Fat Foodie

At the end of last week I went to the fruit bowl and discovered that I had some firm bananas that needed to be used up before they turned into high FODMAP over-ripe ones, so I decided to turn them into something tasty. After a quick search on the internet I decided it make them into chocolate banana muffins.

The recipe I used is from Nigella Lawson’s book, Kitchen, a sizable tome which focuses on hearty ‘real food’ family recipes that can be easily adapted to suit what’s in your kitchen cupboards.

Although the chocolate banana muffins were ridiculously easy to make and tasted quite nice overall, I wish I’d gone with my instincts and added chopped walnuts and chocolate chips into the cake batter before I baked them. I think the addition of texture in this way would have made them just that little bit more special. As it was, my topping of drizzled icing sugar and a solitary little walnut perching on the summit of each muffin didn’t quite hit the taste target for me. But regardless, the bananas still got eaten and after all, isn’t discovering what you’d have done differently half the fun of cooking?

Ingredients:

3 firm bananas

125 ml vegetable oil

2 large eggs

100g brown sugar

200g gluten-free plain flour (I use Dove’s Farm G/F flour because it’s made with low FODMAP ingredients whereas many other gluten-free flours are made with high FODMAP options.)

3 tbsps. cocoa powder

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200°C/180C Fan/400°F/Gas mark 6 and set out 12 muffin cases in a muffin tin.

In a big bowl, mash your bananas and then mix in (I always use an electric whisk) the oil, eggs and sugar.

In a separate bowl mix the flour, cocoa and bicarb together. If you want to add chopped nuts or chocolate chips into the mix then do so now. Add this dry mixture to your wet mixture and whisk until it’s all combined.

Divide the mixture equally into the muffin cases.

Bake in the oven for 15–20 minutes. When you can pierce the middle of the muffins with a metal skewer or a cocktail stick and it comes out clean with no wet batter sticking to it, they’re done.

Leave to cool (if you can without munching them) and then drizzle with icing sugar and top with a walnut.

The Fat Foodie

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Thug Kitchen’s Peanut Butter and Banana Nut Muffins (Makes 12)

Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Banana Muffins (Makes 12)