Name: Banana split cupcakes
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 125 gram butter, softened; 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 1/2 cup self-raising flour; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; 1 cup mashed overripe banana; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1/4 cup milk; 250 gram butter, softened; 3 cup icing sugar; 1/3 cup milk; 80 white mallow bakes (or marshmallows of choice); 16 banana lollies; 185 gram dark (semi-sweet) eating chocolate, melted; 2 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles

Ingredients

125 gram butter, softened

3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup self-raising flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon mixed spice

1 cup mashed overripe banana

1/2 cup sour cream

1/4 cup milk

250 gram butter, softened

3 cup icing sugar

1/3 cup milk

80 white mallow bakes (or marshmallows of choice)

16 banana lollies

185 gram dark (semi-sweet) eating chocolate, melted

2 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles

Method

1.Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 16 holes of two 12-hole (1/3-cup/80ml) muffin pans with paper cases.

2.Beat butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.

3.Transfer mixture to large bowl; stir in sifted dry ingredients, banana, sour cream and milk, in two batches. Drop ¼ cups of mixture into paper cases.

4.Bake about 30 minutes. Stand cakes in pans 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire racks to cool.

5.Make butter cream. Beat butter in small bowl with electric mixer until as white as possible; beat in sifted icing sugar and milk, in two batches.

6.Spoon butter cream into large piping bag fitted with a large fluted tube. Pipe a swirl of butter cream on top of each cold cake.

7.Top cakes with Mallow Bakes and banana lollies. Drizzle chocolate over cake tops; sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.

You need two large (460g) overripe bananas to get the required amount of mashed banana.
Note

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