Ingredients:

• 150 g – all – purpose flour
• 50 g – Sugar
• 1 – Egg
• 1 – Banana(mashed)
• 1.5 – Apple
• 1 tsp – Vanilla essence
• 50 g – Butter (melted)
• 1 tsp – Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp – Bicarbonate of soda
• Lemon juice – 1/4 tsp.

Method:

1. Take half the apple, peel and chop it.
2. Now add a knob of butter in a pan and cook the chopped apple until it softens.
3. Let it cool.
4. Now cut the whole apple and slice it finely with the skin.
5. Then add a knob of butter to the pan and cook the sliced apples until soft.
6. Add the lemon juice and remove from heat.
7. Now sift the flour, baking powder and soda in a large bowl, add the sugar and mix well.
8. Then add the chopped and cooked apples to the mixture and coat well.
9. Beat the eggs, vanilla essence and banana.
10. Add the melted butter to it and mix it again.
11. Now add the all the ingredients and combine well.
12. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
13. Grease the muffin tray with butter.
14. Then spoon the mixture into the tray.
15. In the meanwhile make floral shapes separately in a plate. Take the sliced and cooked apples and start forming rose petals by gently folding them. Place this on top of the mixture.
16. Bake the muffins in the preheated oven for 20- 25 minutes.
17. Now insert a skewer on the side to check if it’s cooked.
18. Remove from oven and cool it for 5 mins in the cooling rack.
19. Serve warm.

Recipe courtesy of Ayeesha Riaz