Superb banana muffins

Oh my! These are to die for! Thanks to Elise from Simply Recipes!

Ingredients

• 3 large ripe bananas, smashed
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
• Handful of dark mini chocolate chips

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Mix the baking soda, salt, chocolate chips and flour. Add the flour mixture into the banana mixture and mix until just incorporated. Pour mixture into muffin tin. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool on a rack or serve warm.

** Makes 6 muffins

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Finally, crunchy chocolate cookies!

Adapted from the same Vivian Pang recipe which I used for the chocolate chip cookies. This is definitely my go-to recipe for crunchy cookies in future!

Ingredients

• 125g salted butter
• 120g brown sugar
• 1 egg + 1 tsp vanilla essence (lightly beaten)
• 210g plain flour
• 40g cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 120g semi-sweet chocolate chips
• handful of coarsely chopped walnuts

Steps

1. Whisk the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder together to remove lumps and ensure that it's well mixed
2. Add in the chocolate chips and walnuts into the flour mixture and mix well
3. Cream butter + sugar till light and fluffy
4. Add in the egg/vanilla mixture and beat till well mixed
5. Add in 3/4 of the flour mixture into the butter mixture and beat at low speed till well incorporated
6. Add in the remaining of the flour mixture and beat till low speed till well incorporated
7. Pre-heat the oven to 170 degree celsius
8. Line the baking tray with grease paper
9. Using 2 spoons, drop spoonfuls of the cookie doughs onto the baking tray, leaving about 1.5 cm distance between each cookie
10. Bake for 25 minutes
11. Transfer to cooling rack and let it cool completely before storing into airtight container

Makes about 40 cookies.

Crunchy, buttery chocolate chip cookies

Recipe courtesy of here, but I halved it for about 70 cookies and used all brown sugar instead. I'm gonna stick to this recipe in future :)

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cny almond cookies *LOVE*

An attempt to replicate that salty, almondy, crunchy melt-in-mouth almond cookies which I've always loved to devour during CNY and yes, i can make my own in future liao! It is really that same taste! *LOVE*

Recipe taken from Jess Kitchen

Ingredients
150g self raising flour
80g icing sugar (reduced to 60g)
80g ground almond
80g diced almonds
100g corn oil (replaced with canola oil)
1/2 tsp almond essence (omitted)
Egg yolk for brushing (omitted)

Method

1. Sift together flour and icing sugar, add in ground almond and diced almonds, mix well.
2. Mix (1) and corn oil together to form a soft dough. (the dough will come together when you roll them so don't worry about it being crumbly)
3. Shape into small round balls and place into small paper casing and press it slightly.
4. Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 15-20mins or until slightly brown.
5. Cool completely on wire rack before storing into airtight containers.