
by nitakb
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Marie Callenders is that brand that’s been around since 1948. They offer different flavors of muffins, one of them being the new Banana Muffin mix. I tried this mix when one of my relatives started to brag about the muffin mix, saying they taste as good as making them from scratch. So I went out on a whim and gave the mix a try.
I will say instead of making muffins, I choose to make a cake instead of individual muffins. To some people this seems a little unethical considering the mix is made for muffins, but I kind of warped the recipe to my own liking and added a few more ingredients. I used two whole packages for my
cake.
On the package, it tells you that you need, one egg white, one-fourth cup of milk and three tablespoons melted butter. Since I used two packages of muffin mix, I doubled the amounts, and added a little more milk and like one tablespoon of vegetable oil, to make the cake more moist. I also added about two teaspoons of vanilla extract and cinnamon. As the packages suggests, I use one medium sized ripened banana.
First I mixed the liquid parts of the recipe first, which was the milk, eggs, oil, butter, and vanilla extract. Once they were properly mixed, I added in the cinnamon and gradually the packages of muffin mix. Upon mixing it, the batter thickened dramatically, appearing more
as a cookie dough. Since this happened, I added about a half cup more of milk , and continued to stir it until was pourable. The last thing I added was the medium sized banana, which I mashed up with a fork into a the batter. I continued to mix until the lumps of banana disappeared.
With my oven preheated to three hundred and fifty degrees, I sprayed the bundt cake pan I set aside to use, and poured in my batter. The muffin mix instructs that you leave it in the oven for seventeen to nineteen minutes, but I had to leave the cake in for about forty minutes because I used two packages. After the edges turned a nice golden ...