Sunday, January 20, 2013

Banana Cupcakes

250 gr self-raising flour 
250 gr melted butter 
250 gr sugar 
4 eggs 
3 tablespoons of milk 
2 bananas 
2 sachets of vanilla sugar 
12 teaspoons of Nutella 
1 lemon 

Preheat the oven at 180 C. Mash on of the bananas and mix with the milk. Put all ingredients together and mix well. Get a cupcake tray ready and line with paper cupcake cases or grease well. Fill the cases up to 2/3 with the batter. Bake the cupcakes in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes until they are nice and golden.

When baked let the cupcakes cool before moving on to the next step.

With a teaspoon make a small round hole in the top of the cupcake and hollow out a little. Finely chop up the other banana, then sprinkle and toss with a little lemon juice. Put one teaspoon of Nutella and one teaspoon of chopped up banana in each of the cavities in the cupcakes.


Then whip up the cream cheese topping, following the recipe below.

Cream cheese topping

200 gr butter 
200 gr icing sugar 
200 gr cream cheese 
1 sachet of vanilla sugar 

In a bowl, add the icing sugar and vanilla to the softened butter and whip for 10 minutes, until nicely white and fluffy. Loosen up the cream cheese and then gently fold it in to the butter mixture with a spatula. Make sure it stays airy, but mix well. Pipe the mixture onto the cupcakes and decorate with chocolate sprinkles.