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Recipe: Banana Caramel Cupcakes

Today’s post is a little bit special because, well, it’s my birthday! Yep, I’m turning the ripe old age of 27 today and what better way to celebrate than with cupcakes! Bringing cake on (or near) your birthday is mandatory at my work, not even the boss would get away with not bringing something to share, so I whipped up these bad boys to take in and pass around. They’ll have to wait until tomorrow though, I’m off to spend the day at the Peninsula Hot Springs with B instead (sorry work!)

This recipe comes from A Table For Two, although I have slightly tweaked the cupcake part of the recipe. I made a double batch, but I’ll just give the measurements for a single batch although given how good the ones B and I sampled were you might want to just make a double batch too!

Ingredients List

Salted Caramel Sauce

  • 1/2 cup caster sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup thickened cream
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes
  • 50g chilled unsalted butter, cut into cubes

Banana Cupcakes

  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1/2 cup self raising flour
  • Pinch of bi-carb baking soda
  • Pinch of salt flakes
  • 115g unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup caster sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (about 2 ripe bananas)
  • 2tbs salted caramel sauce

Salted Caramel Icing

  • 250g cream cheese, room temperature
  • 50g butter, softened
  • 2 cups (confectioners’) icing sugar
  • 4 tablespoons salted caramel

Banana Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Steps

Caramel Sauce

It’s best to make this the day before, and leave it in the fridge (just try not to eat it all before you make the cupcakes!)

  1. Place sugar and water into a saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
  2. Turn up the heat to high and let it boil without stirring for about 5 minutes or until the sugar starts to caramelise and turn into toffee. Don’t go too far away as the colour will change quickly.
  3. Pour the cream into the hot sugar, keep stirring with a wooden spoon while you bring it back to the boil. Add the salt and cook for 3 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat, whisk the butter in to caramel one cube at a time. Pour it into a heatproof jug and set aside to cool. Refrigerate overnight

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 180C and prepare your baking pans
  2. Sift flours, salt and baking soda into a mixing bowl and set aside.
  3. Beat the butter and sugars in a bowl until pale and fluffy, then on a low speed at the eggs one at a time, ensuring they are well beaten. Add the mashed banana and mix it through well
  4. Add the flour in small batches and beat until combined
  5. Add the salted caramel sauce and beat to combine
  6. Spoon the mixture into your patty-pans and bake for 25-30 minutes
  7. Leave to cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then cool completely on a wire rack

Salted Caramel Icing

  1. Beat the cream cheese in the bowl of a mixer on high speed until softened.
  2. Add butter the and continue beating until well combined.
  3. Slowly add the icing sugar until well mixed in.
  4. Add the salted caramel and beat well.

Banana Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Then it’s just a matter of icing the cupcakes (you can pipe if you’d like, I’m not that fancy) and away you go! I topped mine with a banana chip, but obviously that’s not mandatory! I have a feeling I’m going to be pretty popular when I show up with these tomorrow!

Banana Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Now I’m off to lounge around in hot pools and saunas for the day – don’t mind me!

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I Spy Plum Pie is Liz, an early 30s kiwi-born, Melbourne raised girl who is passionate about the environment and sustainability, food, exploring and learning new things. Join me on my journey to a happy, sustainable life!
by I Spy Plum Pie (admin) | 8 Comments

8 Comments on Recipe: Banana Caramel Cupcakes

    • I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
      April 1, 2014 at 11:04 am (10 years ago)

      Thanks Cindy! It was a very relaxing birthday indeed!

      Reply
  2. Lila
    April 1, 2014 at 7:50 am (10 years ago)

    They sound awesome, hope you had a fabulous birthday!
    Lila recently posted…A muse (+) me

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    • I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
      April 1, 2014 at 11:05 am (10 years ago)

      Thanks Lila, I had the most wonderfully relaxing day – felt very spoiled!

      Reply
    • I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
      November 24, 2014 at 1:52 pm (9 years ago)

      Aren’t they just a perfect match!

      Reply
    • I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
      November 25, 2014 at 9:14 am (9 years ago)

      Thanks Kim! Anything caramel is a-ok with me!

      Reply

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