Date and peanut butter muffins

Tam West

These muffins are nice with butter or, even better, a spread of whipped softened butter, peanut butter and icing sugar.

Ingredients

70 g	Butter, softened
½ cup	Peanut butter (Main)
½ cup	Brown sugar, firmly packed
2	Eggs
1 ½ cups	Milk
1 cup	Dates, chopped (Main)
½ tsp	Baking soda
2 cups	Self raising flour, sifted
½ cup	Wholemeal flour
2 Tbsp	Sesame seeds

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 180C fan bake. Grease a 12-hole standard muffin tin.
2. In a large bowl, beat butter, peanut butter and sugar together until pale and creamy. Beat in eggs.
3. Slightly warm the milk, adding the dates and baking soda.
4. Mix the flours together.
5. Combine half the milk mixture with the butter mixture, mix in half the flour, then the rest of the milk mixture, then the rest of the flour. Be careful not to over-mix.
6. Spoon batter into prepared tins, sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.