Basic (everyday) banana bread

For 6 big muffins:

3 ripe bananas
100g butter, melted
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp mixed spice
220g almond meal

Baked at 160C for 35 or 40 minutes(?)

Peanut butter granola

2.5 cups oats

2 Tbsp (20ml) sesame seeds

Pinch salt

1/4 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup honey

1/2 tsp vanilla

Oven to 140C.

Microwave honey & peanut butter about 25 seconds. Stir in vanilla. Fold through remaining ingredients & spread on lined baking tray.

Bake 15 minutes, stir & bake another 10. Turn off oven, stir & leave in cooling oven.

Pumpkin bread

¼ cup milk
6 Tbsp. olive oil
6 Tbsp. rice malt syrup
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 cups pumpkin puree (1/2 large butternut)
2 cups wholegrain spelt flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. fine grain sea salt
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. mixed spice
1 cup pecans, roughly chopped, toasted if possible

Directions:
1. For pumpkin puree, preheat oven 200°C. Slice the pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds and place on a baking sheet, cut sides down and roast until soft, about 40 minutes.
2. Oven at 175°C.
3. Line a standard loaf pan with baking paper.
4. Put the milk, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, and pumpkin in food processor and blend until smooth.
5. In a large bowl combine dry ingredients. Add pumpkin mixture and combine using as few stroked as possible. Fold in nuts.
6. Pour batter into a loaf pan and smooth the top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Remove from loaf pan and let cool on a wire rack.
7. To serve, toast or grill & spread with honey & butter.

City2Surf muffins

Makes 6:

1 cup toasted muesli

1/2 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup sultanas

1 egg

30ml brown sugar

1/4 cop light olive oil

1/2 cup buttermilk

1/2 tsp vanilla

Desiccated coconut & pumpkin seeds

Oven at 200 C, grease 6 muffin holes.

Blitz dry ingredients in food processor then stir in sultanas.

Blitz wet ingredients & gently fold through dry.

Sprinkle with coconut & pumpkin seeds.

Bake 20 mins (until skewer comes out clean.)