Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
September 25, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Cupcakes
I haven’t posted any cakes or cupcakes for a while. So today I have to remedy that and share a yummy recipe for chocolate and banana cupcakes with peanut butter icing. Sounds like a fantastic trio of flavors doesn’t it?
The recipe is courtesy of Hungry Jack®, and is from their Hungry Jack ‘Use Up the Box’ Recipe and Essay Contest. You can submit your own favorite original or non-traditional recipe using Hungry Jack potatoes, pancake mix, or syrup between now and November 9th. Three grand prize winners each receiving a year’s worth of free groceries.
You can find more information about the contest at the Use Up The Box website. I think you should send them a great recipe for entertaining. To get you warmed up check out this cupcake recipe.
These sound like they’d be fun (and easy) for a birthday, or a fall celebration. Yum!
Chocolate Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 large bananas)
- 1/3 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 2/3 cup water
- 1 1/2 tsps. vanilla extract
- 2 cups Hungry Jack® Original Pancake & Waffle Mix (Add Milk, Oil & Eggs)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
Peanut Butter Frosting
- 3/4 cup Pillsbury® Vanilla Frosting, (about 1/2 can)
- 1/3 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 tbsp. milk
Directions
1. Heat the oven to 325°F. Place 24 paper baking cups in muffin pans.
2. Beat the eggs, bananas, oil, water and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer until blended. Add pancake mix, cocoa, sugar and salt. Beat until smooth. Fill baking cups one-half full.
3. Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pan. Place on rack to cool completely.
4. Beat the frosting, peanut butter and milk in medium bowl with electric mixer until blended. Spread on cooled cupcakes.
Chocolate Banana cupcakes sound yummy! I bet my son would love the peanut butter icing, though I’d like it with just vanilla or chocolate for double the chocolate yumminess.
Thanks for the recipe!
These look delicious. My sister takes my old bananas and turns them into Banana Muffins and add in chocolate chips – they are so good. I have a bunch to give her today actually – not bad – rotten bananas in exchange for Muffins. I may be a party planner, but I am not the baker in the family – I leave that to her. This recipe sounds like one I have to pass on to her.