by Jillian on June 3, 2011
The cupcake is dead. Long live the cupcake. While the cupcake clamor may be ebbing, there’s no reason to banish the diminutive dessert from our hearts and plates. Especially when you inject the little bastards full of pudding. I took the lazy route and used a box of Jello vanilla pudding and pie filling, but I encourage you to be better than me, in every way. Here’s how I made this delightful dessert.
Banana Cream Cupcakes
The Cake
Adapted from Martha Stewart
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick softened, unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Preheat oven to 350. Line cupcake tins with pastel paper cups. Mash bananas in a bowl, thoroughly with vanilla. Cream butter and sugar. Combine dry ingredients. Add egg yolks to butter/sugar mixture, slowly. Mix in bananas. Add flour mixture, in three parts, so it is well-combined. In a separate bowl beat the egg whites with a hand mixer to soft peaks (you will recognize soft peaks when you see them; DO NOT LICK). Gently fold egg whites into the batter until all is well-blended. Bake for twenty-six minutes, or until a toothpick comes up clean, and rotate the pan 180 degrees halfway though. Set aside and cool completely.
For the Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 3.4 oz package vanilla pudding
- 1 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Combine all ingrdients and mix with hand beaters for two minutes, until thick. Refrigerate while the cupcakes cool. Use a pastry bag with tip to inject about two tablespoons of pudding into each cake.
The Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Combine all ingrdients and chill in the refrigerator while the cupcakes cool and the pudding sets. Then whip to stiff peaks with a hand mixer. Pipe onto cakes.
At the last minute, I had a scathingly brilliant idea to add white rum to the icing. Alas, we are all out of rum. But I encourage you to test my theory and tell us how it turns out. Finally, I grated a square of bittersweet chocolate and sprinkled the shavings atop the tiny, plumped and frosted treats. Bring to your Mother-in-Law’s for her birthday dinner. Happy belated, P-dog!
Let’s just eat these! Who needs a lobster? I’M DROOLING and it’s fairly disgusting for a woman of my age…
it’s never too early.
This looks SOO good! Bananas never ever fail in baked recipes YUM!
Seriously. I was going to make boston cream pie cupcakes until I noticed the ripe bananas languishing on the counter.
Great cupcake recipe, thanks for sharing, look forward to trying. I bet these are going to be a real hit with the banana cream crowd at my table.
A tip: You can squeeze in way more pudding than you think. Thanks for reading!
Banana cream pie is my favorite, so I know I would love these cupcakes.
Glad you liked them, Jenn!
Yum! Looks delicious. I just LOVE filled cupcakes!
They’re quickly becoming a favorite of ours, too!
Had to make these over a 2 day period because I got distracted and let the whipped cream frosting sit to long and it separated. No biggie made it today frosted the cupcakes and they were awesome just the same. Thanks for sharing this recipe it might just be one of my new favs.
Glad you liked these. Yes, I really like the light whipped cream frosting on these…glad to hear they have entered your regular rotation!