The gorgeous banana cocoa cupcakes with a glossy chocolate butter cream

Hi Friends..Hope you are keeping healthy and warm in the cold weather. Here I am, writing down the entire experience of making these wonderful banana cocoa cup cakes topped with super glossy chocolate cream.

The combination of banana and chocolate tastes really good. Additionally, the cupcakes are made up of oil and milk, thus it says soft and moist for a long time. 

The cupcakes after icing were sent to few friends for tasting. I had my finger crossed. The feedback was overwhelming… Everyone loved it. 

Every time I bake something good, I realize it gives me a sense of satisfaction and happiness. I am sure it must be the same with all the baking lovers..

So friends, check out the recipe of the gorgeous chocolate banana cupcakes here…

Ingredients: 

For making cupcakes: 

(Note: The recipe will yield 12 medium sized cupcakes) 

Dry ingredients:

1 cup all purpose flour(Maida in hindi)

1 cup granulated white sugar 

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup walnuts finely chopped(optional) (You can use any kind of nuts based on your preference)

Wet Ingredients:

1 large banana (Make sure it is ripe. That will give the required sweet flavor to the cupcakes)

1 egg

1/2 cup warm water(lukewarm)

1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup oil (any of these is fine: vegetable, canola, sunflower , light olive oil)

3/4 tsp vanilla extract 

Basic ingredients for making cupcakes

For making chocolate buttercream:

Around 1/2 cup (90 grams) semi sweet/sweet/bitter chocolate chopped into small pieces (sweetness based on your preference) (I took Nestle’s semi sweet chocolate morsels)

1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

1 cup powdered/confectioner’s sugar 

1 tsp vanilla extract

Procedure:

Let’s start preparing the cupcakes:

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.  

Line your cupcake baking tray with liners or brush it with butter.

Cupcake liners placed

In a container, transfer all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt). Whisk everything well.

Whisking all the dry ingredients 

 In a separate container, mash the banana. (Note:Cut the banana into small pieces and mash with a fork/spoon to form a smooth mixture.) 

Mashing the banana

Mashed banana

Add an egg and whisk it well. You will see a fluffy light mixture. (Note: No electric mixer, beater required for whisking. You can do it with hands.)

Here goes an egg into banana mixture

Banana and egg whisked well

Add water, oil and vanilla extract. Mix everything well.

Water, oil & vanilla extract into banana-egg mixture

Everything incorporated well

Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients. Now transfer the wet ingredients into it. Add walnuts if you wish too. Mix everything well.

Incorporating wet ingredients and walnuts into dry ones

It will be a runny mixture of pouring consistency. 

Cupcake batter 

Transfer the batter equally to the cupcake liners. Let it be 3/4 full. 

Ready to be baked 

Bake the cupcakes for 20 minutes. A tooth pick inserted in centre of cupcake should come out clean. Once done, remove these from oven and let them cool down. 

The cupcakes are ready. Don't they look amazing? 

Baked cupcakes

Now we can start preparing our chocolate cream for topping the cupcakes and making them look even more gorgeous.

Let’s prepare the chocolate buttercream icing:

Transfer the chopped chocolate/chocolate morsels to a pan. Place it over a boiling water sauce pan. In a while, the chocolate will start melting. Keep stirring. Let it be an evenly melted chocolate. It will hardly take 2 minutes to attain this state.

Melting process

Melted chocolate morsels

Remove it from heat. Let it cool down to room temperature.

In a large container beat butter with an electric beater . Let it come to smooth state.

Beaten butter

Add sugar and vanilla extract. Beat it until it is light and fluffy.

Adding vanilla and sugar into beaten butter 

Beaten butter, sugar and vanilla

Add melted chocolate now. Beat it on a low speed first increase the speed to medium high once everything is mixed well. 

Here goes the melted chocolate

Chocolate butter cream

Transfer it in  pastry bag and decorate your cakes the way you want to…

Let's start icing the cupcakes

Beautiful banana cocoa cupcake with glossy chocolate buttercream icing

Now all the effort has been done.. All you have to do is eat the gorgeous , soft, moist and delicious chocolate banana cupcakes.. I am sure you will think about it again and again :-).

Have fun cooking. 
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See you soon with another interesting recipe.

Cheers,

Shweta