Hi guys, I hope you're really, really well. Look, it's been a little bit of a crazy
time recently but one thing is for sure, is a lot more people
are doing a lot more baking. So me and Hotpoint wanted to give you some really
good, really useful recipes and this muffin recipe is amazing.
When I was a kid, my favourite cake was a
carrot cake, okay. So I've gone down that path using carrot,
banana, and sweet potato. This is something I do
with my kids all the time, it's super delicious and really nutritious.
This recipe has four, yes four, of their five fruit and
veg a day which is brilliant. It's a killer recipe, so let's do this.
It all happens here with a box grater, so I'm gonna grate 300 grams of carrots,
now 300 grams of the sweet potato and I'm not gonna bother peeling
either just give them a nice wash. So my little kids love doing this,
they get involved, it all happens in one bowl
so it's super simple and just one thing to wash up.
Next, 300 grams of banana and I'm just gonna slice that up.
Just keep back 12 nice slices and then the rest of it
get into the bowl. Next up raisins, now that could be any dried fruit,
then six beautiful, large free-range eggs. We're now going to go in with 250 grams
of self-raising flour, and then to give it a really nice creamy
flavour and some lovely little kind of curds,
3 tablespoons, heaped, of lovely cottage cheese.
For me, the recipe is really cool. It all happens in one bowl. If you're going to
buy a muffin, you know they're quite expensive and if
you do it at home, what's really nice is you can upgrade
to lovely free-range eggs and still save a load of money. I'm going to sweeten this
with a nice tablespoon of honey and then
a little pinch of cinnamon which works really well with
the carrot, the sweet potato, and the banana.
For me, this recipe is great for kids because they can crack the eggs, they can
get all the ingredients in a bowl and sort of mix it all up nicely and
then dividing it into 12 little muffin wrappers, right.
Dollop it into your little muffin wrappers and pat it down.
Look at those! At this stage what i like to do is get
those slices of banana and just put one on top, it just kind of looks pretty.
You can put some crushed nuts or sliced almonds on top,
nice and nutritious and then to finish off with
just a tiny little drizzle of honey, just to kind of make those
almonds really caramelise and go toffee-like.
So bake these for 35 minutes at 180 degrees celsius, which is 350 degrees
fahrenheit, and thanks to the Multiflow technology
which evenly distributes heat, these are going to bake perfectly.
Look at those! Come on! I love the way they've gone golden,
crispy, absolutely beautiful. Normally I'd let these cool down for about 10 minutes,
but while they're hot, they're really good as a dessert with some custard,
amazing. They're fantastic as a snack or in a packed lunch box,
really, really good. I love all muffins but these are really nutritious
and delicious. Look at that, come on! Golden, crispy, caramelised, delicious.
I really want to eat that. Now what's brilliant about these
delicious muffins is if you say give these to your kids for breakfast,
two of these makes up four of their five fruit and veg a day,
and also because of the eggs in there, and sprinkling of nuts, and the lovely
cottage cheese, it's also balanced. Happy days! So i think they're gonna love that.
So good.
What's brilliant about the sweet potato and the carrot
is not in a million years does it taste like vegetables, right, it's really become
part of the juiciness and the structure of that sponge.
Really, really nice. What a lovely, lovely muffin.
So there you go guys, delicious, nutritious, really easy and fun, and
whether you've got kids or not, give it a go and if you want more
inspirational recipes from me and Hotpoint
go to Hotpoint.co.uk.