First Muffins For Baby – Banana and Blueberry

these mini banana and blueberry cakes are an appropriate first cakes for baby! they have a adorable gentle texture this is spongey instead of crumbly and incorporate no added sugar or salt.  Which like I stated cause them to sincerely perfect as the first muffin for babies beginning on finger meals.

whether or not you're your beginning solids following child led weaning or traditional spoon feeding, toddlers all want finger foods for improvement and these are exceptional.

My children nevertheless love them in their lunchboxes notwithstanding being nicely past the baby food phase.  The banana does the sweetening in this recipe and once I lead them to for younger babies I tend to simply stick one blueberry on pinnacle. The purpose being they are able to get beyond messy full of blueberries. Do no longer get me wrong i am enthusiastic about children having amusing with food and making a multitude, however I regularly p.c. these for when we're out and about.  restricting the blueberries limits the mess! but truely, you can add greater blueberries to the mix too!

Ingredients :

• 250g banana (equiv of 2 med bananas)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 100g oil or melted butter
• 160g standard flour 
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 30 blueberries

Instructions :

1. In a large bowl, mash the bananas with a fork 
2. Add eggs, vanilla, and butter/oil
3. Beat these wet ingredients together with a hand held beater (I use an electric one), the batter should become smooth, yellow and a little frothy
4. Add the flour and baking powder
5. Beat for a further 30-60 seconds to make a well-mixed batter
6. Portion into an oiled muffin tin (I use a non-stick silicon tray sprayed with oil) Mix makes 12 standard sized muffins or 30 mini muffins
7. Top the muffins with a blueberry or two
8. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 mins (360 Fahrenheit), 15 min cook time is based on making mini muffins, the mix makes approx 30 mini muffins. If you are using a standard muffin tray and making approx 12 muffins the cook time will be longer, approx 25-30 mins
9. Cool 
10. Serve