Tutti Fruity Muffins

These low-fat muffins are always popular. Filled with orange or apricot yoghurt, banana and passionfruit, they have such a good flavour they do not need buttering, as long as you eat them warm from the oven.

Ingredients

For 12 regular or 24 mini muffins:

2 cups standard (plain) flour

1 cup oat bran

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup brown sugar

2 large eggs

¾ cup apricot or orange yoghurt

½ cup milk

¼ cup concentrated orange juice

1 banana, mashed

2 Tbsp passionfruit pulp, optional

Method

➊Preheat the oven to 200°C (190°C fanbake), with the rack just below the middle.

➋Toss the flour, oat bran, baking soda and baking powder together, thoroughly, in a large mixing bowl. Add the brown sugar and mix again.

➌In another large bowl, beat the eggs, yoghurt, milk and orange juice together, using a fork. Add the mashed banana and passionfruit (if using) and mix again.

➍Tip the dry ingredients into the liquid mixture, then fold the two together, stopping as soon as the dry ingredients are dampened. Take care not to over-mix.

➎Put spoonfuls of the mixture into 12 regular muffin pans that have been thoroughly coated with non-stick spray.

➏Bake for 10–15 minutes or until the centres spring back when pressed.

➐Serve for breakfasts, brunches, as after-school snacks, for picnics and in packed lunches. Eat within a day and a half.

Reproduced from The Complete Home Baking Collection by Simon & Alison Holst, published by Hyndman Publishing, RRP$45.00, available nationwide