This weeks cupcakes is a banana cake with spice frosting and walnut decoration. It was inspired by banana breads and the banana muffins from Olive and Gourmando in Montreal. This week I learned how important it is to wait for the cakes to have cooled off before icing them. If they are still a bit warm, the icing will melt :P And also that when you mess up the ratio of butter/sugar for butter cream icing by putting to much butter it explains why it’s soft :P Here is the recipe for twelve cupcakes:
Cake (all ingredients at room temperature):
-1/2 cup of butter (1 stick)
-1/2 cup of fine granulated sugar
-2 eggs
-3 bananas
-1 1/2 cup of flour
-1 1/2 tea spoon of baking powder
-3 drops of yellow food colouring paste (I may have put a bit too much)
-1/2 cup of fine granulated sugar
-2 eggs
-3 bananas
-1 1/2 cup of flour
-1 1/2 tea spoon of baking powder
-3 drops of yellow food colouring paste (I may have put a bit too much)
Icing (all ingredients at room temperature):
-I put 3/8 cup of butter(3/4 of a stick), but it should have been 1/4 cup (1/2 a stick)
-3/4 cup of icing sugar
-2 tea spoons of cinnamon
-1/2 tea spoon of cardamom
-1/2 tea spoon of ground nutmeg
(The icing by itself is a bit strong, but when you eat it with the cake it soften’s it up and just tastes great!)
And some walnuts to decorate a cut the sugar a bit.
Prepperation:
-start by squishing the bananas with a fork
-in a separate bowl, mix the butter and sugar together until you get a smooth texture
-add the eggs and beat together until the texture is smooth again
-add the bananas and mix until everything is even
-in a separate bowl, mix the baking powder and flour together
-add the flour to the the main mix in three parts mixing until smooth after each addition
-add some yellow food colouring if you want too
-pour the mix in the cupcake mould previously lined with paper baking cups
-bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees
-let the cupcakes cool
-mix the icing sugar, the cinnamon, the cardamom and the nutmeg together and add it through a sieve
-mix with the butter
-spread the icing on the cooled cakes
-sprinkle some crushed walnuts
Enjoy!
