Chocolate and Banana Cupcakes

Sacha's Chocolate and Banana Cupcakes


Ohmigosh these bad boys were tasty! I popped into Hertford on Friday to visit the cake shop and came away with a little pot of edible glitter. Needless to say, I got glitter EVERYWHERE when I made these! So much fun! :D

I used Mary Norwak's chocolate & banana cake recipe and adapted it to make these cupcakes. If you can get hold of a copy (it's gone out of print, boo!) then I would encourage you to do so as it's the best cake book I own (and I owe A LOT!).

If you can't, the recipe is as follows:

Cake Mix

175g butter
175g castor sugar
3 eggs
200g self-raising flour
25g cocoa
2 bananas, mashed (save a tbsp for the butter cream)

Buttercream

100g butter, softened & cut into cubes
200g icing sugar
Tbsp milk
Tbsp mushed banana
30g cocoa

Smoosh everything together with an electric beater (seriously, invest in one of these!)
If it's taking forever, add a LITTLE more milk (too much and it'll go soggy!)

• Turn your oven onto 180°C/GM4
• Cream the butter & sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs together with 3 tbsp of the measured flour.
  
• Fold in the remaining flour & cocoa, then stir in the mashed bananas.
• Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases (I made roughly 24) about 3/4 full.
• Bake for 20-30 minutes (depending entirely on your oven!)
• When cooled, ice the cupcakes with the butter cream!
  
• Glitter is OPTIONAL but it looks so pretty... :D
  

The original recipe is for a cake rather than cupcakes. If you want to turn it into a cake, divide into two greased & floured 20cm/8inch sandwich tins and bake for 35 minutes. The recipe calls for plain chocolate buttercream to sandwich the two cakes together and a chocolate glace icing for the top, but if you want to add extra banana, go for it :D