Banana Bread Cupcakes

Recipe by Horlicks

Makes 12 Cupcakes  

Prep time

1 hour Cooking time 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• 4 ripe bananas
• 200g self raising flour
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 75g unsalted butter
• 60g chopped pecans
• 50g Horlicks Instant
• 2 large eggs
• 100ml semi-skimmed milk
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170°C.
2. Mash the bananas, vanilla, cinnamon and maple syrup in a bowl and keep to one side.
3. In a different bowl, mix together the Horlicks Instant, flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and pecans (keeping a few back to top the muffins).
4. In another bowl, cream together the soft butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Add the eggs one at a time to the creamed butter with a spoonful of flour mix and beat until smooth.
6. Add the remaining flour and then add the banana mix.
7. Mix together until it forms a smooth batter. Line a muffin tin with cupcake cases and spoon in the batter. Sprinkle with the remaining broken pecans.
8. Cook for 20 minutes, remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.