Clair Mieluk

Clair Mieluk

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Caramel Banana Cups...

I can’t stand letting anything go to waste in my home (my fiancé will agree that sometimes it get’s a bit extreme), in particular, brown bananas! As most of you know, the completely overripe stage where they look, feel and taste horrendous can be transformed into a delicious delicacy with a little persuasion…


You will need:

80g butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3 bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt

1.     Turn the oven onto 180oC and grease a cupcake mould with canola oil spray.
2.     Cream the butter and sugar using an electric mixer.
3.     Beat in the eggs until combined.
4.     Peel and chop the bananas into small chunks then fold into the mixture. along with vanilla essence.
5.     Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt, then fold this into the mixture as well until ingredients are just combined.
6.     As this recipe does not rise very much you can fill each cupcake mould up to 3/4 full and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
7.     Once cakes have cooled, whip together 1 part butter with 3 parts icing sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Spread or pipe a tablespoon of buttercream over each banana cup.
8.     To finish, drizzle each cup with warm caramel (see ‘salted caramel’ recipe from January 2014).



Don't be afraid to cook special treats so often, it's much more fun to share the love with neighbours, friends and family!

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