Chocolate Chip & Banana Cupcake

Chocolate Chip & Banana Cupcake 

I saw this on the show "cupcake wars" and thought I would give it a try (My son asked me too). I did not get the recipe from them rather I created it myself. These cupcakes were to die for. Last night we had a guest over and they too loved them! So start your week off right by creating this fun and yummy cupcake. I also created whoopie pies out of the same batch!

Ingredients: 

2 Sticks of unsalted butter ( I always work with unsalted) Softened

2 1/2 cups sugar

4 large eggs (room temp)

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 1/4 cups flour sifted if you can

4 teaspoons baking powder

4 ripe (turning brown) bananas

1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips 

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line your cupcake pan with liners.

Add all dry ingredients into a bowl and stir with a whisk or spoon. Set aside.

In a mixer with paddle or a hand mixer and bowl add sugar, butter, and vanilla extract until well blended with no lumps. 

Add dry ingredients a scoop at a time on low. Blend.

Mash bananas with a fork ( I use a mash potato utensil) add to mix.

Add chocolate chips and fold into mix.

Add 2/3 of batter to each cupcake liner (I use an ice-cream scoop) 

Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool completely on a wire wrack.

Rebecca's Chocolate chip frosting 

1 bag (16 oz) of confectioner's sugar

1 cup chocolate chips grinded in a food processor or chopped very small

1 stick of unsalted butter- room temp.

1/8 cup milk

1-2 tsp of chocolate extract (Vanilla can be used- 1 tsp)

Mix with a mixer or hand-held mixer

Butter, milk, extract

Add chocolate chip semi dust/morsels

Add one scoop at a time for powdered sugar ( I spatula it in)

Mix until you get a semi-thick consistency.

You may add more milk if it is to thin (tsp at a time)- You may also add more powdered sugar if it is too thin.

Add frosting to a piping bag or a zip lock bag (cut tip off of one corner) and pipe onto cooled cupcakes.

Whoopie pies

If you would like and easy version of whoopie pies, this is the way to do it. In fact, this is how they started. Just fill your liners almost to the top and let the cupcakes rise over. Most of the time this is on accident lol. 

Cut the tops off of the cupcakes and pipe frosting in the middle and sandwich it with another top. 

Do not discard the rest of the cupcake. Just pipe some frosting on and Walla!

Hope you enjoy your week and try out this recipe! YUM!

Rebecca Stephan