Muffins With A Heart

I love Banana Muffins and for the longest time could not think of a way or reason to make them better. Then during my pregnancy I discovered the Banana-Nutella combination. Its great!! I had to find a way to put Nutella in my favorite muffins and it struck me one day. The plan was to fill the muffins with Nutella before I baked them. In the past I have tried making muffins by putting a dollop of jam in the batter before I baked them. The jam leaked from some of the muffins while baking and from some when I was trying to take them out of the muffin pan.

I decided to try something different this time around. I took spoonfuls of Nutella and cooled it in the refrigerator. I then shaped these as balls and stuffed each ball into the muffin batter. The result was muffins with a heart of nutella when you bit into them. But the Nutella did not leak out of the muffins and just hid inside like a pleasant surprise. The sad part this time around was that I was short on yogurt and out of baking soda so my muffins themselves did not turn out as tender as they usually do. But the Nutella surprise in each one more than made up for it. The recipe for muffins has been adapted from Pam Anderson's "The Perfect Recipe". I have used pecans instead of walnuts in the original recipe.

✅ INGREDIENTS

• 3/4 cup pecans, chopped
• 3 cups all purpose flour 
• 1 tablespoon baking powder 
• 1/2 tsp baking soda 
• 1/2 tsp salt 
• 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg 
• 10 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs 
• 1 1/2 cups plain yogurt 
• 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (3 small)
• 12 heaping teaspoons Nutella

✅ INSTRUCTIONS

1. Toast pecans in a small skillet over medium heat until fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes, stirring frequently. Take 12 heaping teaspoons of Nutella and cool them in the refrigerator. When they are cold, shape them into balls.
2. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and preheat oven to 375 F/190 C. Coat a 12 cup muffin tin with vegetable oil / vegetable cooking spray. 
3. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a medium bowl; set aside. 
4. Beat butter and sugar with an electric/stand mixer at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in one-third of the yogurt followed by half of dry ingredients. Beat in one-third of the yogurt. Beat in half of remaining dry ingredients, alternating with one-third of remaining yogurt until fully incorporated. Fold the bananas and pecans into the final batter. 
5. Use a large ice-cream scoop to divide batter evenly among muffin cups. Fill each muffin cup halfway through and then place a Nutella ball in the center of each. Top each cup evenly with the remaining batter. Bake until muffins are golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Set on a wire rack to cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Remove muffins from tin and serve warm. 

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