Hi everyone! Today I’m posting some cupcakes I made last month to finish the caramel sauce I had left from my monkey bread. Yes, that was a high-sugar-level week…
The recipe is the classic for banoffee cupcakes and I thought there was nothing to change or add to it. So I followed it to the letter. But, do you have any suggestion to take these to the next level? What is your favorite version of this classic?
Ingredients
- 2 very ripe bananas
- 125 g self-rising flour
- 100 g butter
- 100 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 12 teaspoons caramel sauce
Frosting
- 100 g caramel sauce
- 300 g icing sugar
- 85 g butter at room temperature
- Slices of banana, 3 tbsp. caramel sauce and chocolate shavings to decorate (optional).
Directions
For the cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350 ºF).
Mash the bananas in a dish and set aside.
In a separate bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Combine flour and baking powder, add to the butter and beat.
Finally beat in the eggs, one at a time and mix until creamy.
Fold in the mashed bananas.
Place cupcake cases into the cupcake tin and spoon half the mixture into each one, add a spoonful of caramel and top with the remaining cake mix. Bake for about 20 minutes or until springy to the touch. Remove and cool.
For the frosting
Beat 100 g caramel with butter and icing sugar to form a thick icing. Make a swirl onto the cakes with a piping bag. Top with a banana slice and chocolate dusting, and if you like, drizzle some caramel over the icing too.
Enjoy!
Ok lets talk… I’m hungry now… I love cup cakes and can eat them bu the dozen… and these look particularly nice…
Hehe… Ok. I’m sorry! I would send you a few but a) they are already gone and b) they wouldn’t be that good after that flight 😉
Thanks a lot for your comment Bulldog 🙂
I put my finger right through the computer screen a took a swipe off the top of one of the cupcakes..I hope you don’t mind!
Hehe! Good idea 😉 I would do the same at your blog, but I’m sure one of the squirrels would take a bite 😉
Have a lovely Sunday!
Oh what gorgeous photos! These are so pretty, and the recipe sounds so good. I’ve been in a cupcake kind of mood too. They’re fun to make. Thank you!
Hi Sarah! Thanks a lot for your comment 🙂 yes, they are fun to make and the kids love them…
What delicious looking cupcakes…they sound like more. 🙂
Thanks Karen! 🙂
The recipe sounds tasty enough, Giovanna, especially with that caramel, but that last photo really sells them. You did an excellent job frosting and decorating them all. 🙂
Thanks John! I’m glad you like them 🙂 it was my first time with this recipe and I liked it too
Banoffee, love it – and I really like the look of your cupcakes, but I don’t like frosting – I want my cupcakes naked = muffins – I will do this recipe as muffins and I will come back with the verdict
Thanks Viveka! The frosting is totally optional. At home, among my kids, some eat the whole thing, others remove the frosting before eating and then is Fernando, he only eats the frosting! 😉
I hope you like them too, naked are dress up 😉
I know about the frosting – they will be great as muffins .. only thing is that I eat them all straight away as they come out of the oven *smile
But I truly like baking muffins, the bigger the better.
Se realmente tiene que ser la mejor mamá nunca, con todos esos pasteles increíbles 😉
JAJA! I don’t know about that… But there’s nothing to shut up a yelling kid than a cupcake 😉
Muchas gracias por tu comentario MD!
These must have been super sweet!
They were fabulous! Thanks for your comment Tandy 🙂
Hay nada a cambiar or anadir aqui – son perfectos!
Muchas gracias Tanya! Eres muy amable 🙂
Pefect cupcakes I think you’ve taken up the mantle of petitechocolatier who used to do cupcakes but she’s disppeared from the bloggiverse for some reason
Whoa! Thanks a lot, but I don’t think I’m there yet… Maybe one day 😉
I thought banofee is stand for banana and cofee…..
*shame*
Hi Dedy! Don’t tell anybody, but I thought that too 😉
Thanks a lot for your comment!
These look absolutely gorgeous. I’ve been craving banana cupcakes, but the bananas were eaten quickly this week. I’ll have to put up a little sign ‘these bananas are for cupcakes!’
Thanks a lot for your comment Leslie! I’m glad you liked them. We are having a very hot weather lately, so I’m more in the mood for fresh fruit desserts. But cupcakes are so pretty… Always a old option 🙂
I hope the sign works and that you get to bake those banana cupcakes soon 😉
Wow.. there isn’t a thing you could do to take these to another “level”! I love the professional looking swirl, the little slice of banana and sprinkled topping! These could be in a bakery! xx
Thank you very much Barbara! You are too kind 🙂
They do look great… unfortunately I don’t like caramel too much… *sigh*
Hi Raani! Well, that’s a shame… luckily you can find other cupcakes’ recipes without caramel in them 😉
Thanks a lot for your comment!