A new recipe from my first and only cookbook that my friend gave me for my birthday this year, "Cupcakes! by Elinor Klivans"

The recipe is supposed to be for Banana Butterscotch Cupcakes, but I like chocolate more than butterscotch.

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 medium bananas broken into 1" pieces
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup buttermilk

Directions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line 12 muffin tin cups with paper liner.

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar until blended and creamy, about 2 minutes with a mixer. Add the banana pieces, mixing until they are blended into the mixture; you will still see some small pieces of banana. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until each is blended. Add the vanilla and beat for 1 minute. On low speed, add half the flour mixture, mixing just to incorporate it. Mix in the buttermilk. Mix in the remaining flour mixture until it is incorporated and the batter looks smooth.

Fill each paper liner with a scant 1/3 cup of batter, to about 1/4 inch below the top of the liner. Bake until the top feels firm and a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes for 10 minutes in the pan and then remove them from the pan to cool on a wire rack.

For the frosting:

I used this recipe only I cut it in half (still too much) and skipped the corn syrup, and cocoa powder (and didn't taste any difference). Also, when I got tired of waiting for the icing to set I started added handfuls of powdered sugar to encourage it along.





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These turned out really well. Everyone liked them a lot. They tasted sort of like banana bread more than cupcakes, but it worked really well with the frosting. Will definitely be keeping this one. And I might use this recipe but swap bananas for strawberries (or even better, mix the two!) and see if it works better than my previous strawberry experiments.

Labels: icecream, snappy