If you love banana bread, then you’ll love these banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

You’re going to love these Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Elevate your normal banana bread or muffins with this recipe! The cream cheese frosting pairs so well with the fluffy banana cupcakes. They’re so easy and equally delicious. Everyone is going to love them!

What you’ll need to make Banana Cupcakes:

very ripe bananas (mashed)
white cake mix
eggs
baking soda
water
vinegar
walnuts (optional)

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

cream cheese
milk
powdered sugar
butter
vanilla extract

How to make Banana Cupcakes:

Warm up your oven: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ingredients: Mix together water, vinegar and baking soda. Combine with cake mix and eggs. Stir until well combined, and scrape the bowl with spatula.
Add bananas: Add the mashed bananas. Mix all with an electric mixer for 3 minutes at medium speed.
Spoon into cupcake liners: Pour into lined cupcake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Frost: When cooled, frost with the Cream Cheese Frosting.
Bake: Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Making the Cream Cheese Frosting:

Combine ingredients: Mix together the powdered sugar, butter and cream cheese. Add in milk as needed to get the desired consistency for frosting. Mix in the vanilla.

Make ahead:

These are a great make ahead dessert, and are even better the next day after sitting! Just bake them ahead of time and store until you are ready to eat. You can store the cream cheese frosting in a covered container in the fridge and the baked cupcakes can be in an airtight container on your kitchen counter (stored at room temp). Frost when ready to serve.

Make Banana Cupcakes with over ripe bananas:

Is it just me, or do you always end up with over ripe bananas? Instead of tossing and wasting them, use them to make these delicious cupcakes!

Banana Cupcakes

Course Dessert

Keyword Bananas, Cupcakes

Author Kami | NoBiggie.net

Ingredients

FOR THE BANANA CUPCAKES

1 ¼ cups very ripe bananas mashed
1 pkg white cake mix
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup water
1 tablespoon vinegar
2/3 cup walnuts optional

FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

2 tablespoons cream cheese
milk
4 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

To Make the Banana Cupcakes

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together water, vinegar and baking soda. Combine with cake mix and eggs. Stir until well combined, and scrape the bowl with spatula.
Add the mashed bananas. Mix all with an electric mixer for 3 minutes at medium speed.
Pour into lined cupcake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
When cooled, frost with the Cream Cheese Frosting.

To Make the Cream Cheese Frosting

Mix together the powdered sugar, butter and cream cheese. Add in milk as needed to get the desired consistency for frosting. Mix in the vanilla.

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That’s it! Have a great day! Do you love or hate bananas? It seems like people are in one boat or the other when it comes to bananas. It’s a dominating flavor, but I love them. How about you? Let me know in the comments below.