Banana Cupcakes

Delicious banana cupcakes with homemade cinnamon cream cheese frosting are easy to make. They will be a hit with all of your banana bread lovers!

These banana cupcakes are one of my favorite ways to eat a banana. They are soft and moist, and full of banana flavor.

To be honest, I really eat them for the cinnamon cream cheese frosting, it’s amazing!!

Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour
• Sugar, granulated sugar and powdered sugar
• Baking Powder
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• Butter, unsalted
• Bananas, ripe
• Eggs
• Vanilla Extract
• Cream Cheese
• Cinnamon

How to Make Banana Cupcakes

• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Make a well in center of flour mixture
• Mix together the butter, mashed bananas, eggs, and vanilla and pour it into the dry ingredients.
• Stir to incorporate flour mixture, do not over mix.
• Spoon batter into muffin cups lined with paper liners.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean.
• Remove cupcakes from pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
• Beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Slowly add the powdered sugar and mix until everything is combined
• Add the vanilla and the cinnamon
• Frost the cooled cupcakes.

Check out more of my favorite banana recipes:

• Banana Bars
• Banana Muffins
• Banana Bread

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Banana Cupcakes

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes

Delicious banana cupcakes with homemade cinnamon cream cheese frosting are easy to make. They will be a hit with all of your banana bread lovers!

serves: 12 cupcakes

Prep:15 minutes minutes

Cook:30 minutes minutes

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Total:45 minutes minutes

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Ingredients

• ▢ 1 1/2 cups flour
• ▢ 3/4 cup sugar
• ▢ 1 tsp. baking powder
• ▢ 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• ▢ 1/4 tsp. salt
• ▢ 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
• ▢ 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas about 4 ripe bananas
• ▢ 2 large eggs
• ▢ 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Icing

• ▢ 1/2 cup butter softened
• ▢ 6 oz cream cheese softened
• ▢ 3 cups powdered sugar
• ▢ 1 tsp. vanilla
• ▢ 3/4 tsp. cinnamon

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
• Make a well in center of flour mixture
• In the well, mix together the butter, mashed bananas, eggs, and vanilla
• Stir to incorporate flour mixture, being sure not to over mix
• Spoon batter into muffin cups
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean Remove cupcakes from pan; cool completely on a wire rack

Cream Cheese Frosting

• In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Slowly add the powdered sugar and mix until everything is combined
• Add the vanilla and the cinnamon
• Ice the cooled cupcakes and enjoy!
• Makes 12 cupcakes

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 545kcal (27%) Carbohydrates: 93g (31%) Protein: 5g (10%) Fat: 18g (28%) Saturated Fat: 11g (69%) Cholesterol: 79mg (26%) Sodium: 201mg (9%) Potassium: 213mg (6%) Fiber: 2g (8%) Sugar: 76g (84%) Vitamin A: 676IU (14%) Vitamin C: 3mg (4%) Calcium: 62mg (6%) Iron: 1mg (6%)

* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.

Course:Dessert

Cuisine:American

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