Banana Muffins with Hemp Topping

Morning Song Farm offers macadamia tours to the wholesale tour industry, and our signature "welcome to the farm" treat is a macadamia muffin that many have asked the recipe for. It's been perfected over the years, and I share it here:
Ingredients:
2 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup mashed banana
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 and 2/3 cups of unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup of heavy cream
1 cup crushed macadamias
1/3 cup pureed raisons
1/2 cup hemp hearts
Preheat oven to 350.

 Procedure:

 Cuisinart raisins and sugar and set aside. Don't try to puree the raisins later, as it doesn't work.
Combine eggs, sugar/raisin mix, and oil, beat together. Then blend in banana and vanilla. Set aside.

Combine all the rest of the dry ingredients.

Combine the raisin/sugar/eggs with dry ingredients, and then add cream and nuts.

Carefully spoon into the smallest muffin cups. Sprinkle hemp hearts like crumbs over the tops of each muffin,  and then bake until just done. Overcook and the muffin isn't tasty at all. So check, rather than rely on any particular time frame I can offer here. My oven requires 7-10 minutes.

Just a note about hemp hearts: Hemp cannot be grown in this country because of the War on Drugs as hemp is related to the marijuana plant. However, other countries allow their farmers to grow hemp...Canada for one, and Americans can buy hemp from others, we just can't grow it here. I find my hemp from Sprouts.

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