Mar 30 2008
Scrummy Muffiny Goodness
One necessary ingredient substitution, but nevertheless a highly sucessful evening’s pudding.
- Banana Butterscotch Muffins
Which were in fact Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins. Even Waitrose couldn’t sell me Butterscotch Morsels. I could’ve gone online; I might yet, one day. However, Ms Lawson suggests dark chocolate chips as a suitable alternative and we would agree, very suitable indeed. If anything I feel they may make a superior muffin. I’m not sure that with butterscotch morsels these wouldn’t be too sweet.
These were dead easy to make and an excellent use of our otherwise completely useless one-week-overripe bananas. They probably count as fairly healthy too, what with being made with vegetable oil, and not a huge amount of sugar (apart from that in the bananas!).
Very yummy and just the sort of thing you could confidently knock up if you had a friend coming round for morning coffee and wanted something easy and reliable to feed them. Technically they are from the Lunch chapter, but that’s fine as we have ample left over (we ended up with 19 instead of the suggested 12 muffins- perhaps because we used fairy cake not muffin cases) and so will be taking them for lunch tomorrow.
Oh my word - PLEASE can you email me that recipe!!!!!!!!
[…] to Laputain (and Nigella) for the recipe. These are so yummy that I’m ashamed to say I’ve eaten […]
I also had to make nigella’s banana muffins with chocolate chips instead of butterscotch because as both tecos and Waitrose failed me. Anyway since then i have found a supply via a website called: http://www.americansweets.co.uk.
Cheers Sarah- I too had surmised that the only commercially available butterscotch morsels were Tollhouse ones like those you link to. Unfortunately that’s not much use for me as I’ve boycotted Nestlé for many years now, and Tollhouse are one of Nestlé’s american lines.
However, the are clearly the real deal; if you scrutinise the inside covers of Nigella Express you can actually see the Tollhouse bag, in amongst the chilli sauce and the Clement de Faugier and all the other fine looking foods.
My last hope is a friend whose parents own an Italian restaurant. There seemed to be plenty of butterscotch chips for sale online if you were looking for wholesale; Ariana assures me that her restaurant get them for sundaes and that she’ll be able to shout me a cup or two in return for some muffiny goodness. So, watch this space, there may be more to come!