Mango Banana Muffins with Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

Scrumptious Eid treat with sweetness combined from mangoes , ripe bananas and raisins. Yogurt is added to make it nice and moist. To reduce fat calories ,one can use pure vegetable oil or organic extra-virgin coconut oil instead of butter. 

Lime Cream cheese frosting adds a layer of lightly sweet and zesty topping. One can always skip the frosting ,as these are tasty enough without any frosting.

With richness in calories and sweetness, I'd say these are more close to cup cakes than muffins. 

Ingredients

Makes about 6-8 medium Muffins

For Muffins

• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup plain low fat Yogurt
• 1 large ripe mango - chopped
• 1 ripe banana - mashed
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 cup honey or 1/2 cup brown sugar or 2 tablespoon Agave nectar
• 2 tablespoon melted butter
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup raisins

For Cream Cheese Frosting

•  3 oz Cream cheese - softened
• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons of fresh lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon grate lime zest
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract                                                                                                                     

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350F

2. Lightly grease the muffin tray with butter

3. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  

4. In another bowl combine the mashed banana ,chopped mangoes ,yogurt ,with sugar, butter, raisins and vanilla extract. Mix wet mixture with the dry ingredients
5.Spoon batter into each prepared muffin cup.About 3/4th full.

6.Bake for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown.Let cool for few minutes before removing from tray

7. While the muffins are cooling down ,prepare the frosting. Using a mixer or whipper blend together all the cream cheese frosting ingredients for 1-2 minutes until smooth.

8. Lightly or liberally coat the the frosting over the muffins and enjoy.