One of the many, many new things I have learnt since leaving studentdom and entering the land of ‘full-time work’ is how much quicker food goes off when one doesn’t spend 85 percent of their time inside the house!
This is how, when last weekend arrived, I discovered in the kitchen a couple of browning, sad-looking bananas and, (the middle-class Brit that I am), a whole punnet of strawberries that had seen better days.
Not to be deterred, I decided that rather than chucking this perfectly fine, but maybe a little squishy, fruit in the bin I was going to craft cakey-goodness out of them. Putting them to good use, whilst simultaneously cancelling-out any nutritional benefit the fruit would have on its own!
Thus, a batch of strawberry cupcakes and a dozen banana muffins were born!!
The cupcakes were a variation of the raspberry ones I recently made, and I found the recipe for banana muffins here, both of which I’d definitely recommend.
Then, of course I fobbed them off on my friends, family, and work colleagues. So, a reason to bake, avoid lovely fruity items going to waste, consume some cake, and the chance to butter-up my new work colleagues – brilliant stuff!
Gosh, cake is great, right?
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