Pretty Sundays: White chocolate and Nutella banana muffins

I've had the urge to bake for ages, but hadn't quite got round to doing it until yesterday! The most exciting thing I find about baking, is deciding what to make, and adapting recipes to make them your own by maybe adding an ingredient or substituting one for another! for me it usually always involves the addition of white chocolate where possible. And so my White chocolate and Nutella Banana Muffins were born. I was a little unsure as to whether White chocolate would work, or whether it would just ruin the banana taste, but it was actually really yummy, I felt it added a certain something to the muffin, and made them a little sweeter!
I used a BBC Goofood recipe for the muffins, and I added white chocolate into the cakes, and a dollop of Nutella on the top, whats more perfect together than banana and Nutella? So I thought I would create a little blog post to share how I made them... enjoy xxx

what you will need:

75g butter

250g self-raising flour

1tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 ts nutmeg

pinch of salt

115g caster sugar

1tsp vanilla extract

2 large ripe bananas

2 medium eggs

125ml milk

1 bar of white chocolate of your choice

a jar of Nutella

How to make your Muffins:

1. Heat your oven to 190 degrees celsius/375F/Gas 5

2. Melt the butter, and put aside to cool

3. Cut up a bar of white chocolate into small crumbly pieces (picture below)

4. Mash the bananas well with a fork

5. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, into a large mixing bowl.

6. Add the caster sugar to the dry ingredients and stir together

7. In a new bowl, beat together the 2 eggs, vanilla extract, melted butter and milk.

8. Add the mashed banana and stir through.

9. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients, and add the wet mixture, stir gently with a fork, you want to ensure all the ingredients are mixed in, but not too much, you want to keep some lumps, thats what makes the muffins so tasty!

10. Add the white chocolate pieces

11. Lay out your paper muffin cases in a muffin tray/tin

12. Spoon the mixture into the cases until almost full, you don't want it spilling over the top, but you want enough to make that classic 'muffin top' look.

13.Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown on top

14. Place muffins on a cooling rack to cool, before adding the Nutella

15. aAdd a splodge of Nutella onto the top of each muffin, i found this was easiest to do with a blunt food knife, then add sprinkles, or maybe some pieces of dried banana onto the Nutella, and enjoy!!

Recipe I used for the muffins: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bananamuffins_71268