Aloha Muffins

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 cup chopped macadamia nuts
• 3 ripe bananas, mashed
• 4 fluid ounces unsweetened pineapple juice
• 1/4 cup crystallized ginger, large pieces snipped
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon pineapple extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400.
• 2 spray muffin tins with nonstick spray.
• 3 in a large bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar and cinnamon.
• 4 make sure they are thoroughly combined.
• 5 stir in macadamia nuts.
• 6 in a separate large bowl, mix together the mashed bananas, pineapple juice, crystallized ginger, sour cream, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla and pineapple extract.
• 7 make sure these are well blended.
• 8 add flour mixture to banana mixture, stir just until flour is moistened, (the batter will be thick and lumpy).
• 9 fill muffin cups approximately 2/3 full.
• 10 bake for 15 minutes, or until golden and they test done.
• 11 makes 24 regular muffins or 12 jumbo.
• 12 (you will need to lengthen cooking time for jumbo muffins by about 10 minutes, for a total of 25 minutes).