Banana Cupcakes

Banana craze? O.o it seems like everyone is either baking banana cakes/loafs or in the massive bread baking mood. *ponder* by coincidence I have 2 huge bunch of bananas sitting in the fruit basket and our dear always happy- nonsensical-crappy-friendly-yet we love classmate, Zheyan, will be celebrating the day he aged tml(10^th April) GOSH!! God thanks for this crappy chap in my life!

Always-nice-and-kind Amanda, plans to make him something… and being aware that he fancy bananas(maybe that’s the reason why he is at times nonsensical like a monkey?), I decided to make him banana cupcakes! no frosting and fancy deco, as we have class till 10pm today! *sulk* i wouldnt want him to bring home melted and messy looking cupcakes! So here’s my undecorated, simple, light soft, banana cupcake! take a look~

well, it’s actually a banana cake recipe! =X As I’m currently in the use-the-muffin-tray-for-everything mood, i made them into cupcakes! LOL, been making full use of the muffin tray! it’s easy work! easy clean up, shorter baking/steaming time, easy to consume, grab and go! In fact, I made <this> and <also this> recently again! As they are soooooo much loved by my family and friends. *wink*

This is shared kindly by aunt, yields light, soft banana cake. Checkout the texture! *drool* i love soft and fluffy cakes! erm… cupcakes! (^.^ V) keeping this recipe!

Ingredients:

225g Cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
150g butter
150g castor sugar
2 eggs, large
50ml milk
3 large bananas (mashed)

½ tsp banana essence (optional)

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 175 Degree C and line muffin pan with paper cups.
2. Sift cake flour, baking soda and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Set aside.
3. Cream butter until light and creamy for about 5-8 minutes.
4. Add sugar and continue to mix until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
6. Stir in banana essence if you are using.
7. Beat in mashed bananas and milk.
8. Finally, fold in sifted flour into mixture.
9. Divide batter evenly into paper cups. Bake for 20 – 25mins or till an inserted skewer comes out clean.
10. Remove the pan from the oven. Rest for 10 minutes before removing the cupcakes from the pan. Cool on wire rack.

**NOTE** if baking in loaf, increase baking time to 50-60mins.

Verdict?
Yum Yum! Amanda feels that they are delicious! light and soft indeed! but however, <steam banana cake> still wins hands down among all banana cakes! If you have a sweet tooth, do increase the sugar content. For me, this amount is sweet enough though. Btw, i did some “limited edition” version and Dorie’s Chocolate chip cookies <once> <again>. :X ohh side-track before i forget!

Happy B.day ZY!! May u be Blessed with everything and anything! *wink*

Back to the “limited edition”, it is centered with chocolate chips. The following image, may be disturbing! i apologize~ >.< it looks messy with the chocolate all over… =X but one can never go wrong with chocolate yea?

- .: Baker Lee :.

About these ads