A pretty patty can be deceiving.

My fail-safe recipe failed! Fabulous new patties. So cute. Perfect for Jay's birthday but they somehow screwed with the heat distribution and resulted in chewy banana choc-chip muffins. I blasted them in the microwave for a few mins the next morning to try and soften them up, alas they remained wrong. The work crew thought they were fabulous. Being in advertising, they're pretty good fibbers.

Perfectly ripe. Not too many black bits so the gagging remained at bay.

The mooshing does make me dry-wretch a bit.

Much prefer melted butter to softened butter.

In go the choc-chips (milk better than dark)

Mix it all up. Don is better at this than me 
cos of his big triceps/biceps etc.

My new patties don't fit into the regular muffin tray. 

They need to go in the Texas tray.

My they are pretty.

What fabulous looking specimens!

RECIPE

• 2 cups (300g) plain flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1 cup (220g) caster sugar

• 3 bananas mashed

• 125g unsalted butter, melted

• 2 eggs lightly beaten

• 1 tsp of vanilla essence 

• 1 cup choc-chips

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl and add the caster sugar. In a separate bowl combine the mashed bananas, butter, eggs, vanilla and choc-chips. Add the dry ingredients to wet mix and stir with wooden spoon until just combined. Put the patties into the muffin tray and fill them about 3/4. You'll probably need more than 12, maybe 16 or so. Get a bake tray and put a couple more patties in it and fill them up. Pop muffins in oven for half an hour. They should be golden on the top and if you stick a wooden skewer in them, it shouldn't have any raw mixture on it when you pull it out. Let cool a bit and eat. Keep in an airtight container or bag to keep fresh.