Recipe: Banana Sour Cream Muffins

Banana sour cream muffins are a quick yummy snack, perfect for the school lunch box or afternoon tea. The sour cream keeps the muffin moist and the cinnamon sugar on top adds a special touch of yum!

As with all the recipes on Your Kids OT, you can purchase and download a full copy of the recipe with individual photos for each step of the recipe from the shop.  

This is so useful when encouraging your child to be independent when completing recipe steps.   My Miss 7 completed this recipe independently with only a little help taking the muffin tray in and out of the oven and making sure the mixture was stirred enough.  She felt so "grown up" being able to take out the correct ingredients, all of the equipment needed and then to bake "on her own".  The visual photo sequence allowed her to keep track of the step she was up to and what came next.

Alternatively, your preschool or childcare group may make this together for a shared cooking experience.  I watched nervously when Mr 3 scooped the mixture into the patty pans and was surprised at how little mess there was!

The visual photo sequence is helpful when working with children and adults who may have an cognitive delay or developmental disability.

Banana Sour Cream Muffin from Your Kids OT shop.

Do your kids like helping in the kitchen?

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Ingredients
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
250 ml sour cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup oil
2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 tsp baking powder
Cinnamon sugar

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Equipment needed
Whisk
Mixing bowl
Spoon
Sifter
Muffin tray
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Patty pans (cupcake liners)

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Method
1.         Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
2.         Peel and mash the banana in the mixing bowl. Add 2 eggs, sour cream, vanilla and oil.
3.         Whisk these ingredients together until well combined.
4.         Add the sugar. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Stir mixture gently with spoon.
5.         Line muffin tray with patty pans.  Spoon mixture into patty pans.
6.         Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on each muffin.
7.         Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

You could adapt this recipe with different flavours (white chocolate and raspberry, blueberry, choc chip, apple and cinnamon). What is your favourite muffin flavour?  Happy Baking!