Friday 15 April 2011

Peanut Butter + Banana Cupcakes.

Combining all my favourite flavours into one mighty baked good...
 Banana and peanut butter cupcakes with a chocolate fondant centre and topped with marshmellow frosting.
the ultimate combo ... peanut butter + bananas + chocolate = win.
PB and banana is one of my favourite sandwiches so why not have it all in a cupcake and be a very happy Miss Bake n' Beebz. I used this recipe and tweeked it a little. I Made mine with yoghurt instead of added butter and half splenda/sugar.

Peanut Butter Banana Cupcakes
1 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup sugar substitute like splenda
1/4 cup caster sugar
1/4 cup fat free vanilla yoghurt
2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
 1 ripe banana, mashed
To decorate
6 squares chocolate
6 marshmellows 

  • Preheat oven to 180 /c or 350F. Line 6 holes of a cupcake tin with large muffin papers.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
  • In a large bowl, cream together sugar and peanut butter until fluffy. Beat in yogurt and vanilla extract. 
  • Add in the eggs one at a time, followed by the bananas.
  • With a spatula, gently fold in the flour mixture until just combined. Evenly distribute batter into 6 muffin cups and push in the squares of chocolate until they have disappered. bake in the centere of your oven for 15 minutes
  • place a marshmellow on the tops of each cupcake and place back into oven to bake for a further 3 minutes 
  • Remove cakes from oven and gently push down each marshmellow until they are nicely squished. add a pinch of sprinkles and allow to cool.

Just after I took these pictures, in all my excitement I tripped up, knocked over a table and all the cakes went flying. cupcakes smushed :(  Believe me its very difficult to scrape gooey marshmallow off the carpet but I can inform you the crumbs tasted nice.

Luckily 3 survived and they were very well recieved! all the family very much enjoyed them.
these are probably the best low fat cupcake i have ever made due to the addition of banana and yogurt they were most but the cupcake itself was tender and light, even and very fluffy. A good balance of banana nuttiness and not too sweet. Oh they would be incredible with a peanut butter or chocolate cream frosting... I will have to bake more now just to try out all the icing options!


4 comments:

  1. They look very 'FLUFFY!' in every sense of the word!

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  2. Omgosh... my favourite combination in CUPCAKE form?! I'm in love! And you (or I...) should TOTALLY try pb frosting on those :-D

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  3. yum! those look SO tasty!! i love bananas.. and cupcakes! xoxo jillian:: cornflake dreams

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  4. I am all about the PB banana combo! These look divine!!! =) Thanks so much for promoting the party with my button! You rock!

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