Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Screen-Shot-2015-08-27-at-4.48.36-PM-5919fe585f9b58f4c09ca218.png)
Ingredients
Cupcake Batter
- 3 bananas, smashed
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (16-ounce) box confectioners' sugar
- Pinch kosher salt
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- 2
Line a cupcake tin with 16 paper liners, and spray with nonstick spray.
- 3
In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to combine bananas, butter, and both sugars until blended.
- 4
Beat in eggs one at a time, then blend in sour cream and vanilla extract.
- 5
In a medium sized bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.
- 6
Blend in flour mixture on low speed in three batches just until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- 7
Fill each cupcake liner almost to the top with batter.
- 8
Bake for about 25 minutes, until a wooden skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean.
- 9
Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes, then remove cupcakes from tin and finish cooling on wire rack.
- 10
While cupcakes are cooling, make cream cheese frosting. In a medium bowl, blend together cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Add salt. Then add confectioner's sugar, in increments, blending until incorporated before adding more.
- 11
Frost cupcakes once cool.



