Mini Delights: Maple and Banana Cupcakes

Sometimes all you want is a little sweet treat just to get you through that gap between lunch and dinner. Hopefully, these 3 recipes will help you just do that; each recipe is from the recipe book Mini Delights which you can buy over on Amazon.

Maple and Banana Cupcakes

Banana cake is inevitably a British favourite. These Mini Delights can be served plain, simply dusted with icing sugar, or swirled with a delicious maple buttercream frosting.

Ingredients:
1 small banana
2 tbsp. maple syrup
2 tbsp. milk
60g lightly salted butter, softened
70g caster sugar
1 egg, beaten
100g self raising flour

150g lightly salted butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 tbsp. icing sugar
7 tbsp. maple syrup
8 pecan or walnut halves, roughly chopped, to decorate

Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 180C, and line a 12 section mini muffin tin with 3cm mini-paper cases.
In a small mixing bowl, mash the banana to a puree with a fork and stir in the maple syrup and milk.
Put the butter and caster sugar in a separate mixing bowl and beat together with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the egg, a little at a time, adding a teaspoon of the flour if the mixture starts to separate.
Sift half the flour into the bowl containing the butter mixture, then add half the banana. Gently fold the ingredients together until only just mixed. Sift in the remaining flour, add the remaining banana mixture and fold in.
Spoon the mixture into the paper cases. Bake in a preheated oven for 18-20 minutes, or until risen and just firm to the touch. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
For the frosting, put the butter, vanilla, icing sugar and maple syrup in a bowl and beat with an electric hand whisk until smooth and creamy. Put the frosting in a small paper piping bag fitted with a 1cm star nozzle and use to decorate the cupcakes. Scatter with the nuts.


Voila! 12 Mini Maple and Banana Cupcakes that will win over even the toughest of critics.

Pop back on Wednesday for our second Mini Delight recipe!

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