Banana muffins with fudge pieces

In celebration of moving in with my boyfriend (horray!!!!!!) and having some bananas to use up in the fruit bowl, I decided not to make the usual banana bread recipe but to look for some banana muffins to make.

We were helping his parents move to Plymouth and I decided to take them as a snack idea. I hope they were appreciated.  They are Nick's favourite baking recipe of mine so far.
I add fudge pieces to make them extra gooey in the middle.

Recipe adapted from the All Recipes website.  My notes are added in purple...

Ingredients

Serves : 12 

• 200g (7 oz) plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 large bananas, mashed (Make sure these are overly ripe.  This adds extra flavour.)      
• 150g (5 oz) caster sugar (I decided to split this as 100g of caster sugar and 50g of brown sugar)      
• 1 egg
• 75g (2 1/2 oz) butter, melted
• You could add some spice such as a tsp of cinnamon.
• 1 bag of fudge pieces.  (I found these in the baking aisle at Asda)      

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Directions

Prep:10min  ›  Cook:25min  ›  Ready in:35min 

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Place 12 paper baking cases in a muffin tin.
2. Sift together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt; set aside.  (I added some spice to the flour mixture here)
3. Combine mashed bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture, and mix until smooth. (I beat the sugar and butter first and then add the egg, then the banana).
4. Add the fudge pieces and fold them in so that you don't knock much air out.
5. Spoon evenly into baking cases in muffin tin. (Make sure the batter is close to the top of the cases so that you get that glorious muffin top!)
6. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until muffins  (original recipe) spring back when lightly tapped.