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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Banana chocolate chip muffins

Making healthy snacks for kids is an art. Dodging requests for Maggi, Lays or Kurkure every evening and providing something healthy in its stead is definitely something that requires practice and a certain amount of sternness and will power. These muffins are easy to whip up, healthy and at the same time something that kids will love. In fact, my little one made this herself. She did the measuring, the mixing and the spooning into the muffin tin. Needless to say, she enjoyed eating what she made.

What you need: (Recipe adapted from Tarla Dalal's Healthy snacks for kids)
Bananas (mashed) - 1/2 cup(I used 3 small overripe ones)
Whole wheat flour - 4 tbsp
Oats - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
Oil/butter - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 tsp

Mash the bananas in a small mixing bowl. This is a task my little girl did very meticulously and with great enjoyment. Mix the vanilla essence and sugar into it.
Take the whole wheat flour, oats, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. Add the banana mixture and oil to it. Mix well. Gently stir in the chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 150 degree centigrade.
Line/grease your muffin tin. Spoon the batter into the muffin tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Enjoy!!!

This is my first post for Blogging Marathon #17 themed on Kids' Delight - Evening snacks/Tiffin. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 17
This post goes to Radhika's Let's cook - Kid's special




16 comments:

Padmajha said...

Really good stuff for kids and better than all those snacks u mentioned.Good one..

Ms.Chitchat said...

Looks yummy.

Srivalli said...

Looks good Jay, send this for kids delight pls..

Priya Suresh said...

Wat a combo,love this in muffins.

Chef Mireille said...

banana and choc. chips - what kids wont love that?

Sangeetha M said...

Such a healthy n yummy muffins,great snack for kids!!

MySpicyKitchen said...

You daughter must be thrilled baking her own muffins. It is always fun having kids involved when making their favorite food.

Harini R said...

like the addition of oats in the muffins

Unknown said...

I made the same yesterday with out oats and chocolate.Looks yummy!!!

Unknown said...

nice and healthy ..

Nalini's Kitchen said...

sounds interesting and delicious....

A Kamalika Krishmy said...

Very interesting combo

sushma said...

Healthy

Suma Gandlur said...

Lovely muffins.

veena said...

Looks so good .M y ggod will love to have it

Unknown said...

This is really interesting…
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