BANANA CUPCAKES WITH BUTTER CREAM

BANANA CREAM FILLING
  • 1 1/4 Cups of mashed Bananas (about 2 small bananas)
  • 1 tsp. fresh Lemon Juice
  • 1/4 cup Powder Sugar
  • 3 oz. Cream Cheese, softened 
  • 3 Tbsp. Heavy Cream
CUPCAKES
  • 1 1/2 Cups All Purpose Fluor
  • 1 tsp. Baking Powder
  • 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt44
  • 1/2 Cup granulated Sugar
  • 1/4 Cup packed light brown Sugar
  • 1/2 Cup Salted butter, softened
  • 1/4 Cup Whole Milk
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
BUTTERCREAM
  • 1/2 Cup Salted Butter, softened
  • 3 Tbsp. Cream Cheese, softened
  • 1/4 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 1/8 tsp. Salt
  • 3 Cups Powdered Sugar
  • 4 Tbsp. Heave Cream
  • 2 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted.
TO PREPARE THE BANANA CREAM FILLING

In a small bowl, mix together the banana with the lemon until smooth.

Then in a medium bowl, combine the powder sugar with the cream cheese and the heavy cream with an Separate one half cup of the banana mixture for filling, the rest will be used later,

TO PREPARE THE CUPCAKES

Pre-Heat the oven to 350.  Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg and the salt.
Separately, beat together the butter, regular sugar, brown sugar until well combine.  Add the milk, eggs and vanilla until well combined.  Gradually start adding the flour, until the batter is smooth.  
Stir in the 3/4 cups of the banana cream filling.
Spoon about 1 Tbsp. of the batter to the bottom of each section of a prepared muffin pan (you will have enough for a 12 muffin pan).
Top evenly with the banana cream filling.  Then top that layer with the rest of the cupcake batter.
Bake for about 18-20 minutes, until golden brown and it should spring back when touched.
Cool completely off on a wire rack before frosting.

TO PREPARE THE FROSTING

Mix the cream cheese with the vanilla, and salt until smooth.  Add the 3 cups of the powdered sugar alternating with a tablespoon of the cream, until nice and smooth and nice consistency is achieved/
Put the frosting in a piping box and cover each cupcake top with about 3 tablespoons of the frosting. Drizzle the melted chocolate on each cupcake.








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