Banana & apricot compote muffin ingredients

The bananas above needed using up so I whipped together another recipe for muffins where the sugar was replaced with a Smy Goodness compote, in this case Smy Goodness apricots compote. The compote adds moistness and flavour to the muffins without them being overly sweet.

Banana & Apricot Compote Muffins Recipe

Ingredients:

100g organic spelt flour
100g organic plain flour
100g organic butter
275ml apricot compote (or any flavour jam/compote)
2 medium ripe bananas
1 egg
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp organic vanilla

Instructions :

preheat the oven to 210°C and lightly grease a muffin tray.
Mix and blend the butter, compote, bananas, egg and vanilla.
Sift and flours and baking powder together.
Fold the sifted flour and baking powder into the blended wet ingredients a bit at a time until completely blended together.
Add a heaped tablespoon of the mixture into cases or muffin tray and then go back and add a bit of the mixture to each muffin case or tray until they are as equal as possible. The recipe will make 12-14 muffins.

Sifted spelt and plain flour and baking powder

Banana, butter, apricot compote, vanilla and egg

Behold the twin bananas that I discovered today whilst making a batch of banana and date chutney! I've photographed them next to a standard banana but they were totally smooth on each side. They were hiding underneath a small bunch of individual bananas and I gasped as I saw them and turned them over and around, looking at them from all their angles. The twin hemispheres of my brain were working rather fast but they were slightly confused until they determined, yes - it was a banana but as my hands prodded them I could feel two distinct bananas, twin bananas under one peel. If they were a hardier fruit I might have thought about keeping them around a bit longer but I'm funny about my bananas, twins or no twins, and these two were already teetering on the wrong edge of how I like to eat and/or use them for my banana & date chutney. I was obviously wondering if they are a rare or common phenomenon and was planning to take to Twitter to find out but thought I would need photographic evidence. Had I not lost my camera last month I would have made a video...but please do not get me started on that or the fact that I also lost my Smy Chutney notebook in the same evening, alas, it could have been worse. But back to the twins, I felt like little Phoebe here and eerily had an almost identical conversation to the one that she has below:

There are lots of images of other twin bananas and even a query on yahoo asking, "Will a pregnant mother give birth to twins if she eats twin bananas? If she splits them behind her back, will she still have twins? Please include research. :)" I do not think this blog constitutes research for or against twin bananas having the power to banana split an embryo into twins, I would think that research is not actually necessary so moving on.

Here are my twin bananas sans peel, just before they were chopped up and sacrificed to a batch of banana and date chutney and as

@EllieBry

stated, "it was a sacrifice any decent banana would make."