Banana Walnut Mini Muffins with Maltesers

Bananas are fruits that are never gonna be outdated and since we have on over ripe bananas here, my fingers are getting restless again. You know what that means? No! of course not it's not because I'm addicted to touch screen phones hahaha.. Actually my fingers are itching to try something new, to bake something unconventional, to experiment with recipes. So, what do we have here? hmmm.. let me check our cupboards. Oh! we have leftover walnuts, perfect for banana walnut muffins... YAY!!!! And what do we have here hiding? MALTESERS!!! Maybe I can incorporate it with my recipe and let's see what's gonna happen hahaha...

Ready Now??? Let's start baking!!!

What we need:

• A bag of Maltesers
• 3 cups of Cake Flour or just plain all purpose flour
• mini muffin tins
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• paper cups for cupcakes/muffins (small)
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 8 pcs ripe bananas
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup butter
• crushed walnuts (optional)

How to bake:

• Sift flour together with the baking soda(the whiter one) then set aside

• Mashed the bananas using fork

• Add all the wet ingredients; eggs, butter, vanilla to the mashed bananas

• Add the flour 

• Mix it all in till there are no more lumps of flour

• Now mix the crushed walnuts

• Add the crushed maltesers :)
  By the way I only put 30 pieces cause I'm afraid it will be too sweet.
• Preheat oven 350 degrees F

• Put the paper cups on the tin molds and fill it with the mixture

• Baked for 15 minutes

Here's my first batch of muffins :) Gotta have a taste now.

This batch is just right for my taste cause I don't like it to be too sweet, but my brother said it taste bland like he's just eating plain walnuts hahaha... Maltesers aren't that sweet after all. Now what I did was I add a cup of white sugar to the remaining mixture and my gramps said the taste was heavenly ( I'm his favorite grand daughter by the way.. hahaha). The texture is super moist which I love cause I'am not a fan of muffins or cupcakes that will choke you because of it's dryness.

Yield: 38 mini muffins

Yummy :)

Baking and cooking are my therapy it makes me ecstatic to see people around me smile after tasting the food that I cook or cookies, bread and muffins that I bake, that alone motivates me to experiment more and cook more :)

How about you? Have you tried to twist traditional recipes and love your experiment's result? If so, can you share some of your recipes to me too? Pretty please ^.^

Hope to hear from your experience too! Till next post loves, gonna devour this mini yummies :)

xoxo

Wakeboarding Adventure @ Deca Wake Park Clark

I am from Pampanga, but I seldom go out ever since I decided to stay here for good. So, I never imagine that this province have a lot of a must travel places that any adventure seeker/sports enthusiast would love to hang out!

So, last week my cousin and I decided to go to Angeles City to seek some adventure and have that much needed rest. We travel for 30 minutes from our place to reach our destination. We entered a subdivision and boy! Am I surprised to see a wake-boarding park at the heart of a city?!?  I was literally amazed as I never thought Cable wake-boarding exist!  LOL

The place actually looks like a club house in a typical subdivision/village.

Receiving Area

Rates Posted on the upper part of the receiving area and smaller one on top of the table

My cousin was the only one who registered as I didn't bring extra clothes much to my cousin's dismay. Also, I don't have yet the guts to try it. I decided to just took some photos of him in action while I'm munching on some Pringles :D

Oh, they also sell clothes just in case you forgot to bring extra and you really wanna try to wake-board.

clothes from: stoked inc, ripcurl etc

My Best friend that day :D

And here's the wake-boarding area. Yes, it is man-made! :D

And those are cable wires!

First try?? :D

On his first try I was taking my #selfies and was surprised that he is swimming to the ladder, but he manage to have good runs on the water after.

I actually took a video, so you guys know how he fares :D

And here's some selfies :D

Those things at the back are boards...

Afterwards we decided to go to Nepo Quad to have our lunch at New York Supreme and a quick fix of pastries at A La Creme.

Here's an additional information for you guys who want to visit Deca Wake Park Clark:

Service Hours :  9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Rates:

Weekends and Holidays

P500 ($12) for 2 hours
P800 ($19) for 4 hours or
P1,200 ($28) for an All Day ticket good for 8 hours.

Weekdays

P400 ($10) for 2 hours
P700 ($16) for 4 hours and
P1,000 ($23) for the whole day.

Basic Equipments are included, but if you have your own, you are entitled for a 10% discount on any ticket you'll purchase. There are also premium wake-boards for rentals.You also have the option to avail their membership or just go with the prepaid passes.

For beginners there will be a free instructor that will teach you the basics.

That's actually reasonable for a package of a fun filled day right plus this is also a fun way to tone your muscles and get fit :) Way cooler than gym workouts ;)

For more information you can check here:

Deca Wake Park Clark
Barangay Margot, Angeles City, Pampanga
(just outside the Friendship Gate)
Contact no. (0915) 330-1013 or (0918) 459-8488
or visit their website: http://www.clarkwakeboard.com/

Hope to hear from your experience here @ Deca Wake soon :)

xoxo,