If I want to spoil my family with sweets, I bake Chocolate Chunk Banana Muffins or Funnel Cake. Both are recipes in which my children help me with joy and enthusiasm. At the same time, snacking on bananas and chocolate. I love this taste where the taste of bananas is surrounded by chocolate that melts in your mouth. Ideally, as in these fantastic cupcakes, muscovado sugar is added, which enriches the taste and plays excellently with cinnamon. This sugar is often added to muffins, but it also usually goes with funnel cake when served unusually with apple pie filling.
The tradition of funnel cake is distant and dates back to my childhood. It is associated with joy, the smell of funnel cake, carousels, and stalls with various attractions. The first time I ate it was at such a festival.
The tradition of this fried cake requires it to be eaten with powdered sugar, but I modernized it a long time ago and modified it for children to add healthier additions such as fresh fruit or apple pie filling. Believe me, with a scoop of ice cream, they taste like apple pie!
I wanted to show my children this smell, so I started baking funnel cake with them. They love decorating it and inventing toppings. And then that first perfectly chup cake. It is ideal for spending time at the table, where each piece of this incredibly simple cake is intertwined with interesting conversations or family board games to spend time pleasantly.
Another exciting way to spend time with the family is to bake chocolate chunk banana muffins, where children get involved in making the cake and testing the products. Where each piece of chocolate has its place assigned by the children, they are also healthy and perfect as a sweet addition to their lunch box. I always bake them in several portions to freeze and defrost them when needed. A healthier modification of these delicious muffins will definitely be the option of adding wholemeal flour to them. It will not affect their taste too much, so children will still want to eat them with pleasure.
I appreciate not only the taste of these two desserts but also the fact that I can serve them with the remains of overripe or very ripe fruit. Funnel cake is more versatile because you can add any fruit, while muffins are limited to bananas. However, both of these recipes can also successfully fit into the "no waste" ideology.
No matter what we choose for a family dessert, funnel cake or chocolate chunk banana muffins, we are guaranteed a sweet evening with the family.
Enjoy!
