Chocolate makes everything taste better and these little beauties have chocolate chips in the cake too. Banana and chocolate is a wonderful pairing and you can’t really go wrong.
Somehow in my kitchen there are always a couple of black bananas left in the fruit bowl, you’ve got to bake these delicious cupcakes, you know you want to……..
Kitchen Kit: Food Processor
Makes: 10
You will need: muffin tin lined with cupcake cases
80g softened salted butter
100g soft brown sugar
1 large egg
50ml room temperature milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
130g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 very ripe bananas mashed
40g dark chocolate chips
For the topping:
50g dark chocolate
15g salted butter
Cadbury chocolate flakes
- Preheat the oven to 190oC.
- Place the softened butter and sugar in the food processor. Process to combine. Scrape down and then add the egg, milk and vanilla extract. Process quickly, scrape down again.
- Add the flour and baking powder, process until combined. Add the mashed banana and process. Using the pulse function quickly add the chocolate chips.
- Fill the muffin cases. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Cool for 10 minutes and then remove from the tins and cool on a baking tray.
- Place a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, add the chocolate and butter stirring until melted.
- Take a spoon and add blobs of the chocolate mixture on top of each cupcake, cool slightly and add a piece of flake.
- Eat!
