The Friday Feasts Continue...

Banana Cupcakes (Ala Elvis)

This is an awesome banana recipe and I use it to make plain muffins or bread, but with a few twists, you can have Elvis Cupcakes!

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium ones)

1 cup mayonnaise

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour (I mixed with wheat flour)

¾ cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

In a small bowl, combine bananas, mayonnaise, and vanilla until well blended.  In a large bowl, combine the rest of the dry ingredients and gradually into the banana mixture until blended.  I never combine the dry ingredients before mixing them in, I just add them slowly.  It doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Spoon into paper lined muffin pans (about 2/3 full) and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.  Cool for 10 minutes and put on a wire rack to finish cooling.

Options:

The original recipe I found has you putting a small amount of batter in the bottom of the pan, place a chocolate kiss upside down inside, and then finish covering with batter.  Then top with peanut butter icing.  My taste testers found the icing to be too much and I began baking the muffins with a peanut butter cup in the middle.  They are AMAZING!  You can put in chocolate chips, nuts, or anything you’d like.  They are delicious no matter how they are made.

Peanut Butter Icing (just in case)

1/3 cup peanut butter

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 to 4 tablespoons milk

In a large bowl, combine ingredients using only enough milk to achieve good spreading consistency.