My Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting ♡

Hey guys!

So I've been living in my university home for just over 3 weeks & decided it was time to do some baking. So I thought I'd share the recipe with you.

Ingredients For The Cupcakes

1 Banana

200g Self-raising Flour

200g Stork

2 Eggs

200g Sugar

1 TSP Vanilla Essence 

1 TSP Baking Powder

Ingredients For The Cream Frosting

1 Tsp Vanilla Essence

125g Soft Cheese (Philadelphia)

300g Icing Sugar
50g Stork (or unsalted butter)

Utensils

1 Bowl

1 Silicone Spatula

15 Cupcake Cases

Scales

Muffin Tray

1 Tbsp

1 Tsp

♡ REHEAT OVEN TO 180C OR GAS MARK 4 & LINE A TRAY WITH 12 CUPCAKE CASES ♡

♡ Firstly weigh out your sugar and stork into one bowl.

♡ Whisk the stork and sugar together until smooth.

♡ Once you've whisked together the sugar and stork. Weigh out your flour into a separate bowl.

♡ Next crack one of your eggs and add some of the flour to the mix. 

♡ Whisk the mixture, once fully mixed add the second egg and some more flour. Whisk again until fully mixed, then add the remainder of the flour.

♡ In a separate bowl mash up the banana until it looks something like this (the more ripe the banana the better!).

♡ Add the banana, vanilla essence & baking powder to the mixture & whisk together.

♡ Evenly spread the mixture between the 12 cupcake cases, I had left over mixture so I made 3 more after my first batch had finished cooking.

♡ I used my silicone spatula to get all the mixture out of the bowl.

♡ Bake the cupcakes for 20-25 at 180c/Gas Mark 4. The best way to check if your cupcakes are cooked is to touch the top of a cupcake and see if it feels firm and springs back when releasing your finger.

♡ While you're waiting for your cupcakes to cool it's time to make the frosting! So firstly combine your icing sugar and stork, I started of using my electric hand blender but decided a wooden spoon was less messy. !WARNING THIS CAN BECOME MESSY!

 ♡ Once you've combined the icing sugar and stork, you can add the cream cheese and a drop of vanilla essence - this just helps to give the frosting a sweet flavour.

♡ Then decorate you cakes how you desire, I just used a spoon and a knife to spread on the frosting but if you want to be fancy you can pipe it on. Then just add a few chocolate chips on top!

♡ EAT & ENJOY ♡

Hope you enjoyed this quick & yummy recipe! 

Muchos love,

Shannon ♡