Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Cheerios Banana Muffins

  Hello friends, how is it going?  I just came back after a long needed walk with my son.  We went to a park nearby, he played and I walked around.  It gave us both some fresh air and exercise.  Blessings of a summer morning.  We came home and enjoyed this delicious muffin.  This one is quite an interesting mix you will agree with me.  Read on if you don't believe.  Cheerios and banana; a breakfast by itself go in to make another, muffin.  Yeah! I thought incredulous too, but it's true. 

  As cliched as it may sound the truth is I have had Cheerios hatching in my pantry for a while.  It came easy, free from our local supermarket.  However, it's proved not so easy to feed my family.   Therefore, I had them all fooled with this ingenious concoction of mixing it up to make some spongy, melt in the mouth muffin.  The recipe is courtesy the 'Cheerios' site.

Cheerios Banana Muffins

Ingredients:

Cheerios/ Any plain cereal- 1 cup
All purpose flour- 1 1/4 cup
Baking powder- 2 tsp
Brown Sugar- 1/4 cup
Granulated white sugar- 2 Tbsp
Mashed ripe bananas- 1 cup( 2 or 3 bananas)
Raisins- 1/2 to 1 cup
Walnuts (optional)- 1/2 cup
Milk- 2/3 cup
Vegetable oil- 3 Tbsp
Egg,lightly beaten- 1
Pure vanilla extract(optional)- 1 tsp

Cheerios Banana Muffins

Method:

1.Preheat the oven at 400 degree F and line the muffin pan with paper liners or grease it.
2.Crush the cereal.Stir this with the flour,baking powder and sugar.
3.Throw in the other ingredients ,one by one and mix well using a wooden spoon.Do not overdo this step.
4.Spoon into the prepared muffin pan and bake for 17-18 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Notes:

1.I haven't tried this with other cereal,but I guess it should work fine with the normal corn flakes and other plain cereal.
2.This recipe will give you 12 medium sized muffins.
3.You could replace the white sugar with brown sugar for a more healthy muffin.

Cheerios Banana Muffins

Recipe adapted from : cheerios.com

Contributor: Namitha

44 comments:

  1. How neat! Love them for the breakfast!

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  2. Namitha,

    Adipoli muffin with cheerios. I have banana always wanting to use them in any thing. Nice recipe.

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  3. Hi Gulmohar I am drooling lovely and spongy muffins.

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  4. There seems to be a banana fever around, several other blogs I visited talked either about banana muffins, banana pancakes or banana ice creams ;)! Lovely food presentation as usual!

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  5. Wow, very new, adding cheerios to muffins, lovely :)

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  6. I hate cheerios by itself, same case with any cereals. pakshe muffins njna kazhikum.athurapaanu :-D

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  7. Kids will love this muffin. Great idea to incorporate cheerios in it.

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  8. great muffins and your right I do this all the time with J such a blessing

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  9. Cheerios muffin..very innovative dear!!
    Looks perfect:)

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  10. WOW...love this combo together..looks awesome and very innovative recipe..thanks for sharing!

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  11. Greatt recipe Namitha, and muffins looks fabulous!!

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  12. I wouldnt have ever thought of cooking with Cheerios...but those muffins look good.
    Great job with the photographs too.

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  13. evdeyum unde korachu cereals... Nice idea Nami.. Pretty sure that the muffins will get over soon..

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  14. Tats a very intelligent breaky...will visit de website too. Thanks.

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  15. Very pretty and perfect looking muffins. My boys would devour it!.

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  16. Spongy muffins look inviting! So I'm gonna visit your home on Monday hehehe.

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  17. Nice breakfast treat. The muffins are perfect

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  18. Sigh!! Am yet to get to a stage when I will enjoy having kids at home during a summer break:-(. I dread holidays as both my kids tear me part:-))

    This sure seems a great way to feed cereal to your family in a healthy,delicious way!!

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  19. Lovely muffins, looks too good namitha...

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  20. Muffins look scrumptious and cute.

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  21. loved the sweet and cute bites....loved the snap too...

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  22. They are really inviting..complete brkfast..looks yumy

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  23. This is my favorite.. looks perfect:)

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  24. Looks great !! love to have it now

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  25. Great looking scrumptious muffins..

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  26. What a great breakfast idea. My cheerio-devotee kids would love these!

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  27. nice click, and best to serve this with a cup of coffee!

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  28. Namitha , adipoli muffins,great idea..they sure are inviting.

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  29. Sounds like a delicious muffin. The banana must give it a lot of flavor.

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  30. muffins looks very nice and tempting to grab it

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  31. Cheerios n banana nice combo. A new technique to include cheerios in muffins

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  32. Muffins looks perfectly done and inviting :)

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  33. Perfect muffins 've got...fluffy and lite!

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