The dry ingredients include: 3 cups flour; 1 cup sugar (brown or white); 1 tablespoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional). Use a whisk to blend the dry ingredient together. (PS...the entire recipe is listed below)
Walnuts, before chopping
After chopping with a knife
About 1 cup of nuts - I like walnuts because they aren't so hard.
Dried Mangos, chopped up 
About 1 cup. If the mangos are too dry, you can pour boiling water over them to soak them for a few minutes. Then pour off the liquid and they will be softer. I do this with raisins anytime I use them for baking.
1/2 cup of dried cranberries. You can use more if you like.
I just put them all together in a bowl and wait to add them to the batter.
1/2 cup of melted cooled unsalted butter. Put butter in a bowl and into the microwave for 15-20 seconds, and it should be melted without being hot.
The rest of the wet ingredients: 1 1/2 cups of yogurt. For these muffins I used peach yogurt (but any flavour would be fine - even plain will work). 1 1/2 cup of mushed bananas (it usually works out to 3-4 bananas - if you have abit more than 1 1/2 cups, thats okay too). Also, add 2 large eggs and whisk the whole thing together. The melted butter can be added to this bowl too. Please note, if your melted butter is too hot it will cook the eggs....yuck - you don't want that to happen. One option is to mix the yogurt, bananas and eggs together and then
add the butter separately and mix together. This time I put the butter in last, but that was only because I forgot about it and just about missed putting it in....a big oops that would have been!
Mix the wet ingredients to make a well blended batter....
Add the wet to the dry ingredients and GENTLY fold together until just about blended then add the nuts, mango and cranberries and again GENTLY fold the whole thing so it is just blended.
It should look something like this:
The more extra ingredients you put into it the thicker the batter will be - but it will still back up just as delicious.Fill your greased muffin tins. I use an oil spray and always seem to get 24 muffins.
Bake for 20 to 26 minutes in a 375 oven until a toothpick comes out clean. Don't overbake - your muffins will get dry. I use a convection heat and get a very even browning on the muffins. Of course this time I only had the oven at 350 and they were done before they browned nicely - still good though so go and ENJOY!
The muffin recipe:375 preheated oven. Yield: 24 muffins
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups yogurt (I used peach, but you can use whatever you have)
1 1/2 cups mushed banana
1/2 cup melted cool unsalted butter
2 large eggs
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chopped dried mangos
1/2 cup dried cranberries
