Banana Split Cupcakes!

Hot summer days like this make me sentimental to my childhood.... When my sister used to work at Coldstone and every summer day my mom would drive me and whichever hooligan of a friend I had over for an ice cream. (Sighhh).......... If you want to get extra fancy with these cupcakes try filling them with chocolate genache! or maybe add chocolate chips to the cupcake batter.... YUM!

Banana Split Cupcakes!

 

Ingredients: 

3 cups                               Cake flour
1 and 1/2 tsp.                    Baking soda
3/4 tsp.                              Baking powder
3/4 tsp.                              Sea salt, fine
4                                       Bananas, super ripe, mashed
3/4 cup                             Buttermilk
1/2 tsp.                             Pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup                             Unsalted butter, room temp
1 and 1/2 cup                   Brown sugar
3                                       Eggs, large, room temp


Pre-heat oven to 350. Line a standard muffin pan with cupcakes liners. In a small bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another small bowl stir together bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla. In a stand mixer with fitted paddle, cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated scraping down sides of bowl as you go. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture until fully incorporated. Bake until done (toothpick comes out clean).

Vanilla Buttercream:

1 cup                                 Unsalted butter, room temp
5-6 cups                            Powdered sugar
                                          Clear vanilla extract, to taste
                                          Sprinkles, cherries, waffle cone, banana chips, melted chocolate (for decoration)
                                         

In a stand mixer with fitted paddle, cream butter until lightened. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time until fully incorporated and creamy. Beat in vanilla (to taste preference).