Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
These Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect solution to your rapidly browning bananas.
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- Serves: 16 persons
Ingredients
- Cupcake Batter:
- 3bananas, smashed
- ½cup unsalted butter, melted
- ¾cup granulated sugar
- ½cup brown sugar
- 2large eggs
- ½cup sour cream
- 1teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2cups cake flour
- 1teaspoon baking soda
- ½teaspoon kosher salt
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1(8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ¼cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1(16-ounce) box confectioners’ sugar
- Pinch kosher salt
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 F.Step 2
Line a cupcake tin with 16 paper liners, and spray with nonstick spray.Step 3
In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to combine bananas, butter, and both sugars until blended.Step 4
Beat in eggs one at a time, then blend in sour cream and vanilla extract.Step 5
In a medium sized bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.Step 6
Blend in flour mixture on low speed in three batches just until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.Step 7
Fill each cupcake liner almost to the top with batter.Step 8
Bake for about 25 minutes, until a wooden skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean.Step 9
Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes, then remove cupcakes from tin and finish cooling on wire rack.Step 10
While cupcakes are cooling, make cream cheese frosting. In a medium bowl, blend together cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Add salt. Then add confectioner’s sugar, in increments, blending until incorporated before adding more.Step 11
Frost cupcakes once cool.