Chocolate Hazelnut Banana Muffins

Ingredients

• 200 g plain flour
• 50 g castor sugar
• 50 g brown sugar
• 2 medium ripe bananas
• 170 g chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
• 70 g hazelnuts chopped
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 125 ml neutral oil vegetable/canola/sunflower
• 1/2 tsp salt

Instruction

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C or 350°F and prepare a 12 cup muffin tin with liners.
2. In a bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl mash the ripe* bananas into a creamy texture. To the bowl add the castor and brown sugar, eggs, neutral oil and vanilla extract. Mix well together.
4. Start adding some of the flour to the wet mixture, and mix it in the batter.
5. Finally, gently fold in, the chopped hazelnuts and chocolate.
6. Divide the batter between the 12 muffin liners. Don’t worry if the batter reaches the top of the tin.
7. Bake the cupcakes for about 20 minutes or until a cake tester/toothpick comes out clean.
8. Remove from pan and let cool completely on wire rack.