Bananana nananana....cupcakes!

Banana Cupcakes

with vanilla bean buttercream

Cupcakes

2 Large Eggs

4oz Self raising flour

4oz Caster sugar

1oz Soft brown sugar

4oz Butter/margarine

2tbsp Sunflower Oil

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 mashed bananas 

• Weigh out all your ingredients so they are ready to go
• Mash up your bananas. I do it while they're still in the skin, that way you only have to cut one end off and squeeze the mush out. Plus no dirty extras... I'm on about washing up
• Cream butter and sugar together until light in colour, creamy and kinda fluffy
• add your little eggies
• Whisk like your life depends on it
• Sift in the flour and baking powder 
• Fold together until just combined
• Add your mushed up bananas
• Spoon into paper cases.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven at gas mark 7, 220 degrees Celsius for about 22 mins. Sorry I didn't tell you to pre-heat earlier... awkward.
• They will go fairly golden because of all the sugar. I made them in two sizes and the smaller ones seemed to dome slighty as you can see in the picture. Ah well. Boverrrrd.
• Allow to cool then buttercream those puppies up!

For the vanilla bean buttercream...

I use this recipe from browneyedbaker replacing the cream with milk..as I had no cream.

This frosting can be used for preeeetty much every cake ever, its a good staple and you can colour it with gel or liquid colouring too. Bingo. 

Wait! there's more. I forgot to tell you that after the buttercream part I added these mini stroopwafels as a decoration/chewy surprise. Yay!!! 

XXX