Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

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Ingredients

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
½ cup white sugar
6 tablespoons lightly packed brown sugar
¼ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg
2 ripe bananas, mashed
⅓ cup buttermilk
½ cup chocolate chips, or to taste
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners' sugar, or more to taste

Nutrition Info

331.6 calories
carbohydrate: 55.3 g
cholesterol: 41.4 mg
fat: 12 g
fiber: 1.3 g
protein: 3.2 g
saturatedFat: 7.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 133.8 mg
sugar: 42 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.

  2. Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.

  3. Combine white sugar, brown sugar, and 1/4 cup butter in another bowl, beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in egg. Mix in mashed bananas. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, stirring after each addition. Fold chocolate chips into the batter.

  4. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool cupcakes on a wire rack, about 30 minutes.

  6. Beat cream cheese and 3 tablespoons butter in a bowl until smooth. Add vanilla extract. Beat in confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth.

  7. Spread frosting over cupcakes.

Recipe Yield

1 dozen

Recipe Note

I was inspired by a few different banana cupcake recipes before settling on this one. The cream cheese frosting is probably my favorite part;it's just wonderfully decadent on a banana cupcake. Refrigerate cupcakes after frosting. P.S. They taste much better the next day!

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