Chocolate Banana Cupcakes Recipe
This version of the Chocolate Banana Cupcake is so moist and delicious, largely because of the pudding in the cake recipe.
To make this recipe even more mouthwatering, there’s fruit filling! Everyone loves the flavor of these banana cupcakes. Why not make a batch of these cupcakes to snack on this afternoon?
What You Need to Make Chocolate Banana Cupcakes
Gather your ingredients. To make the cupcakes, you will need flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, vanilla, vegetable oil, eggs, milk, sour cream, and banana cream pudding mix.
For the apple mixture that goes inside the cupcakes, you’ll need apples of your choice, water, and sugar.
To make the frosting, you’ll need unsalted sweet cream butter, powdered sugar, imitation banana extract, heavy whipping cream, yellow food coloring, caramel for drizzle on top, along with 2-3 bananas depending on size. You’ll need 18 banana slices, 1/2 – 3/4 inches.
How to Make the Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cupcake liners in a cupcake pan.
Add dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Sift together.
Mix vegetable oil, milk, and eggs together, beating until totally combined.
Add vanilla and sour cream. Mix well.
Once the liquid ingredients are fully combined, mix the liquid and dry ingredients until they are well combined.
Pour batter into lined pan until 3/4 full, and bake at 350° degrees for 15-18 minutes.
Let cool for 15-20 minutes. Once completely cool, use a small scooper or spoon and scoop a hole in the center of the cupcake.
How to Make the Apple Filling
Peel, core, and chop apples into small pieces. Add water, apples, and sugar to a pot and cook on the stove until the apple chunks become tender.
Cool the apple mixture in the refrigerator overnight or for several hours. Fill the hole made with the cupcake scooper with the chunky cooked apples.
How to Make the Frosting
Mix soft butter with sugar using a hand mixer or a stand-up mixer until they look like small rock pebbles.
Add whipping cream and continue to beat at medium speed.
Add two drops of yellow food coloring and imitation banana extract. Continue to mix until the frosting stands in stiff peaks.
If the peaks aren’t stiff enough, add powdered sugar at 1/2 C at a time until the peaks form and stand.
Apply the frosting to the cupcakes in a pastry bag with tip. (This Wilton pastry bag is the one I use.)
Drizzle with caramel and a thick banana slice on top.
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Chocolate Banana Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
For Cupcakes
- 2 C flour
- 1 C cocoa
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 C granulated sugar
- 1 TBSP vanilla extract
- 3/4 C vegetable oil
- 4 eggs room temp
- 1/2 C milk
- 1 C sour cream
- 1 3.4 oz banana cream pudding
For the Cooked Apples
- 4 apples of your choice
- 2 C water
- 1/2 C Sugar
For Frosting
- 1/2 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 2 C powdered sugar
- 3 tsp of imitation banana extract
- 2 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- 2 drops yellow food coloring
- Caramel for drizzle on top
- 2 large bananas
Instructions
To Make Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cupcake liners in a cupcake tin.
- Add dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Sift together.
- Mix liquid ingredients together. Once the liquid ingredients are fully combined, mix the liquid and dry ingredients together.
- Add eggs to the mixture, beating until totally combined.
- Pour batter into lined pan until 3/4 full, and bake at 350° degrees for 15-18 minutes.
- Let cool for 15-20 minutes. Once completely cool, use a small scooper or spoon and scoop a hole in the center of the cupcake.
For the Apple Filling
- Peel, core, and chop apples into small pieces. Add water, apples, and sugar to a pot and cook on stove until the apple chunks become tender.
- Cool apple mixture in the refrigerator overnight or for several hours. Fill the hole made with the cupcake scooper with the chunky cooked apples.
For the Frosting
- Mix soft butter with sugar in stand up mixer until they look like small rock pebbles. Add whipping cream and continue to beat at medium speed. Add 2 drops yellow food coloring.
- Add in the imitation banana extract. Continue to mix until frosting stands in stiff peaks.
- If the peaks aren’t stiff enough, add powdered sugar at 1/2 C at a time until the peaks form and stand.
- Apply the frosting to cupcakes in a pastry bag with tip.
- Drizzle with caramel and a thick banana slice on top.
Nutrition
I made these tonight. I actually did things a little different being that I am a baker with my own business. I did the sugar and oil first mixed for a few minutes, then added in eggs. Put the flour, cocoa, pudding mix, baking powder and sugar in a bowl and stirred it. Put my milk, vanilla and sour cream in a bowl and mixed it. Then added everything into the sugar and eggs, alternating dry and wet, starting with dry and ending with dry. I actually ended up with 24 cupcakes
Thanks, Sam. It’s been forever since I’ve made these. I’ll have to try your method and see how it works out. Were they on the smaller side? How was the flavor?
Hi Kelly–these look yummy! Questions:
1. Approximately how many standard sized cupcakes does the recipe make;
2. What is drizzled over the frosting; &
3. Did you use food color to tint the frosting yellow or did the banana flavoring you use do that?
So sorry I’m just seeing this, Jennifer! 12 standard cupcakes. Caramel is drizzled over top. Yes, 2 drops of yellow food coloring to tint frosting. Recipe has been updated.
How much butter is used in the frosting?
Sorry, Desiree. It was supposed to say sweet cream butter.
How do you keep the banana slices for garnish ripe and not from browning?
Hi Rebecca! You can either slice just before serving or soak them for a couple of minutes in lemon or pineapple juice. They will still retain the color. Happy New Year!
How many cupcakes does this recipe make?
12 standard cupcakes
what is the stuff drizzled on top of the icing?
Caramel
How many cupcakes does this make? Looks yummy:)
12 standard cupcakes
I would serve these with a scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. Double delicious 😀 New follower! Come say hi sometime! http://www.facebook.com/thehappyidiot
I CANNOT wait to try this! So glad I found you on Hit Me with Your Best Shot!
Thank you, Tori!! Let me know how you love them 🙂
So do you make the instant pudding or just add the packet to the dry ingredients?
About how many cupcakes does this recipe make? And will chocolate lovers love this recipe?
12 standard cupcakes
Okay, I’m drooling right now! Looks so good. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on Monday at 7, we can’t wait to party with you! Lou Lou Girls
Hi there Friend, you are so creative! Thank you for joining in at the Friday Favorites Link Party! I hope to see you there this week:) Christine -Must Love Home
Yummmmm! This is a great recipe! I would love for you to share this at my party Making Memories Mondays going on now! Hope to see you there!
Cathy
Thank you, Cathy! I appreciate that!
Oh wow, these look so scrumptious! And I can’t wait to see that movie with the boys. Thank you for sharing at Inspire Me Wednesday. Featuring you in this week’s issue.
Thank you for visiting, Mel! I’ve seen it twice and you and your family will love it!
These cupcakes look and sound wonderful. Pinned.
I have some bananas that have been waiting on this recipe!
Hi there! Visiting from the Weekend Re-treat link party. These looks so pretty and delicious! I love chocolate and banana together! I’m pinning for later!