Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Description

If you’re in a banana and peanut butter mood, these are the perfect cupcakes to have! Both flavors balance perfectly, one doesn’t overpower the other. Also a great way to use saved frozen bananas. Recipe works well doubled.

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 very ripe bananas
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • ½ cup smooth peanut butter

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
  2. Whisk flour
  3. baking powder
  4. baking soda
  5. and salt together in a medium bowl. Mash bananas with a fork in another medium bowl until smooth. Mix sour cream and vanilla extract into bananas.
  6. Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy
  7. about 3 minutes. Add egg and egg yolk and beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in 2 batches
  8. alternating with banana mixture
  9. beating batter briefly after each addition until just blended. Scoop batter into the prepared muffin cups
  10. adding about a generous 1/4 cup in each.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  12. about 20 minutes. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
  13. about 20 minutes.
  14. Meanwhile
  15. sift powdered sugar into a large bowl. Add cream cheese
  16. butter
  17. and peanut butter; beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Spread or pipe frosting onto the cooled cupcakes.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Servings: 12

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