Banana Custard Slice

The things I do for this blog.  This is such a busy week that I won't have time to cook, so my non-outfit posts should really be quick and easy things to change.  I can't let bananas go to waste, though.  Last week, I had 3 rather ripe bananas, and a friend posted a link to a healthy banana slice which required 3 bananas.  Before getting a couple of ingredients in order to make that though, I kinda ate one of the bananas...  I found another recipe (not at all healthy) and was checking the sugar supplies when I discovered (yes - I had totally forgotten this fact) that instead of normal sugar, I have Natvia.  So I went to the Natvia site in search of recipes.  I found a whole heap of drool-worthy dessert-like recipes, most of which needed 3 bananas (why??? why did I have to eat that banana???).  Finally, I found this recipe for a banana custard slice which requires only 1/3 cup mashed banana.  Phew.

Ingredients:

1 cup self raising flour
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup Natvia
1/4 milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
60 g butter
1/3 cup mashed banana



Method:

Grease a lamington tin (or line it with baking paper).  Preheat oven to 180C (160C fanforced).
Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl.
Melt the butter.  Mix together the butter, egg, milk and mashed banana.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, stir well.
Spread mixture in prepared tin.  Bake in oven for 25 minutes.

Makes 30

When cutting, I didn't really believe I was going to get 30 pieces... But, with 3/4 cup Natvia, it is rather sweet, so when I continue cutting I will make them smaller.

Bonus - the Natvia site uses photos from users, and this recipe doesn't have a photo - yet.  So I'll be sending through one of these... You never know!

Healthy Chocolate Banana Muffins

I am one of the thousands of people who 'Like' Clean Eating Recipes on Facebook.  With a few rather mashable bananas around, I tried my first Clean Eating recipe today.  Almost.

Ingredients:
2 cups almond meal
2 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/4 cup Natvia (my first time using this)
1 vanilla pod, seeds only (I didn't have any so used a teaspoon of vanilla essence)
1 heaped tablespoon protein powder - they used white chocolate (this recipe is originally White Choc Banana muffins - obviously mine became just chocolate banana muffins)
2 whole eggs
2 egg whites
1/8 cup olive oil
slivered almonds to top

Method:
Preheat oven to 180C, line muffin tin with cupcake/muffin cases (I had to improvise with ripped bits of baking paper).
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.  Spoon about 1/4 - 1/3 cup mixture into each muffin case, top with slivered almonds, and bake for 25 minutes.  Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.

So easy!  They do taste a bit healthy - I'm going to count this as a good thing though, as it will stop me eating the whole batch before freezing any for later. 

For the zone diet thing, I'm going to count each muffin as 2 lots of fat, 1 carb and 1 protein, at least until I find some nutritional information from the Clean Eating team.  So morning tea this week will be a healthy muffin, a small piece of fruit, and some cheese or an egg.  Unless I make some more protein balls which worked so well!