Best Banana Minion Cupcakes Recipe
Decorate these cupcakes to resemble your favorite minion characters.
Total Time:1 hour, 25
Ingredients:
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 1/2 cups mashed Chiquita® bananas
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/3 cup milk
Instructions for best Banana Minion Cupcakes Recipe
Assembly:
1/2 cup unsalted butter 4 cups icing sugar, sifted 1/3 cup 35% whipping cream (approx.) Yellow food coloring gel 1 cup chocolate chips, melted 9 large marshmallows, halved
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 18 muffin cups with paper liners. Whisk together flour, baking powder and soda, and salt until blended; set aside. In bowl, beat butter with sugar using electric beaters until light and fluffy; beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in mashed bananas and vanilla. Alternately beat in flour mixture in three additions and milk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Let cool completely on wire rack.
Assembly: Beat butter using electric beaters until light and fluffy. Beat in 1 cup icing sugar at a time, adding 1 tbsp whipping cream at a time as needed, until smooth and creamy. Mix in yellow food coloring gel to desired yellow shade of minions. Decorate each cupcake with frosting, melted chocolate and marshmallow to mimic minion characters.
