Banana and vanilla cupcakes with blueberry icing

December 9, 2010 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)
Banana and vanilla cupcakes with blueberry icing recipe

Banana and vanilla cupcakes with blueberry icing

Serves: 12
Cooking Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

  • Cupcakes

  • 4 large eggs
  • 400g (2 cups) sugar
  • 300g (2,5 cups) cake flour, sifted
  • 170ml (2/3 cup) oil
  • 250ml (1 cup) milk
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) baking powder, sifted
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) vanilla extract
  • 3 bananas, mashed
  • seeds of ½ vanilla pod
  • Icing

  • 125g butter, soft
  • 260g (2 cups) icing sugar
  • 30ml (2 tbsp) milk
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) vanilla extract
  • 125ml (½ cup) blueberries, crushed (fresh or frozen)
  • fresh mint, to serve
  • banana chips, to serve

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 180ºC.

2

For the cupcakes, beat the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat for 2 minutes. Pour into paper cupcake holders and bake for 15 – 20 minutes.

3

For the icing, cream the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy. Whisk in the milk and vanilla. Add the crushed berries and gently blend with a hand-held mixer.

4

Ice the cakes with a piping bag and top with the mint and banana chips.

 

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