Chocolate banana cupcake with buttercream
By Olga Babitskaya
Prep Time:
10m
Cook Time:
30m
Get ready to enjoy these Banana Chocolate Cupcakes, beautifully topped with creamy mascarpone, fresh blueberries, and a luscious caramel drizzle. If you’re looking for a homemade touch to finish them off, you can find our full Caramel recipe here. It is hard to beat the combination of tender chocolate banana cake and charming swirls of Mascarpone Frosting. The moist texture and natural sweetness perfectly complement the silky smooth cream. Beyond just tasting divine, these homemade treats are a visual feast that look as good as they taste.
Delicious Banana Chocolate Cupcake Recipe Ingredients
Cupcake Batter & Decorating Ingredients
- 165 g flour
- 30 g cocoa
- 1 tsp soda (incomplete)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
- 210 g bananas (or 2 medium ones)
- 140 g sugar
- 80 ml vegetable oil
- 30 g peanut butter
- 60 ml Americano coffee
- 1/2 tsp. vinegar
- vanilla
- 200 g mascarpone or another cream-cheese (Read the ingredients on your cream cheese packaging. If you have cream cheese with salt, then no salt is needed)
- a pinch of salt
- vanilla
- 45 g powdered sugar
- Caramel for drizzling
- Berries for decoration
Mascarpone Cream Frosting Base
- 100 g cream 33%
Step-by-Step Instructions for Your Banana Chocolate Cupcakes
- Start by choosing your fruit—the riper the bananas are, the better the flavor will be. Preheat your oven to 170°C. Sift the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cocoa, and salt) together in a bowl to prepare the batter. Using an immersion blender, process the bananas, sugar, vanilla, coffee, peanut butter, and vinegar until you have a smooth, homogeneous mixture. Add the vegetable oil to the banana base and combine gently with a whisk. Mix the dry flour ingredients into the wet banana mixture until you have a smooth batter. Bake time will vary depending on the size of your pan, usually ranging from 30 to 60 minutes. Use a dry toothpick to check for doneness. (For reference, I used a mold of about 20 cm, and the cake baked perfectly in 30 minutes).
To make the rich mascarpone cream, simply whisk all the specified ingredients together until the frosting is smooth and fluffy.
