Name: Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3/4 cup milk; 1 Tablespoon vinegar; 1/4 cup neutral cooking oil (vegetable, canola etc.); 2 bananas; 1 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 egg; 1 1/4 cup flour; 1/4 cup cocoa powder; 3/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt

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Chocolate banana cupcakes are the perfect mix of rich chocolate and moist banana. The homemade batter is super simple to make and they taste amazing!

Rich chocolate cupcakes decorated with white and yellow condensed milk buttercream and pink and white sprinkles.

Rich chocolate cupcakes with bananas mixed right in. You won’t believe how easy they are to make or how delicious they are!

They are super moist, really chocolaty and oh so good. Whip up a batch to top with your favorite frosting. Or leave the frosting off and call them a muffin, I won’t judge!

Little Dude has been in a cupcake baking mood lately. I bought a big sleeve of cupcake wrappers when we were making his minion cupcakes for his birthday.

Now every time he sees them he thinks we should bake. So I finally gave in to his request. We have been enjoying banana cupcakes recently.

So to keep on trend when Camilla thought it would be fun to celebrate chocolate cake day the first thing that popped into my head was to remake these chocolate banana cupcakes.

chocolate banana cupcakes with frosting being piped on one.

Of course Little Dude wanted to help. So I narrated the recipe.

This is the perfect recipe for little helpers because it can be made in a mixing bowl with a spatula. He loves doing it himself.

His favorite part is putting the liners in the pan though. Sometimes it’s the simple things!

The last time I made them for a family dinner a couple of years ago. We placed the baked cupcakes in the waffle maker and cooked them a second time.

This gave them crispy edges and warm valleys to hold the melty ice cream from the sundaes we built on the still warm cupcake waffles.

wrapper pulled down exposing moist chocolate banana cupcake.

As good as those were, this time we went a bit more traditional and frosted them with sweetened condensed milk buttercream. Little Dude thought they needed sprinkles, so he was in charge of decorating them.

platter of frosted cupcakes with sprinkles on top.

My all time favorite chocolate cake is the devilishly good chocolate cake. The chocolate cherry fudge bundt is always good too. What is your favorite chocolate cake recipe?

For a great chocolate frosting recipe, check out my chocolate sweetened condensed milk buttercream.

Yield: 12 Cupcakes

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes

Banana makes these cupcakes moist and delicious. They are the perfect combo of chocolate, banana and cake!

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

3/4 cup milk
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1/4 cup neutral cooking oil (vegetable, canola etc.)
2 bananas
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250°F and mix milk and vinegar and set aside
In your mixer bowl, cream together bananas and sugar. Add oil and eggs and mix until uniform
Stir in vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix together baking soda, flour, salt and cocoa.
Alternate adding milk mixture and flour mixture until everything is added and batter is uniform
Fill paper lined cupcake tins until the papers are at least 2/3 full
Bake for 45-50 minutes or until completely set and inserted toothpick comes out clean
Cool completely before frosting

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes

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