Banana & Chocolate Cupcakes

HELLO EVERYONE!!
Welcome to my first ever blog post! I decided to bake these delicious banana & chocolate cupcakes as I had a handful of bananas sitting in the fruit bowl that were in need of some loving. I was flipping through some recipe books when I spotted this recipe and I knew that it was ideal for my 'mature' bananas.
The recipe that I used is from "The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook". (you can click here if you're interested in purchasing this book)

The equipment that I needed for the cupcakes; lined cupcake tray, weighing scales, measuring spoons and my KitchenAid (or whatever mixer you own).

The ingredients for the cupcakes; flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, butter, milk, eggs and bananas.
Because this isn't a step by step tutorial I simply have a couple of pictures of the different stages:

When the mixture became wet my new kitchen gadget Hug Doug came in handy for keeping the mixture covered spoon off of the table :)

I also have a before and after of the cupcakes in their cases:

Because of the amount of bananas that I had I made a batch and a half of the mixture. The recipe states that a batch will make 12 cupcakes, so I was expecting to make about 18. However I ended up with 36!

I also noticed that after I removed the cupcakes from the oven they had sunk a little in the middle. Not to worry as this can be easily disguised by the frosting.

  

The next step in the process was making these Banana & Chocolate Cupcakes chocolatey!

For the frosting I needed; my KitchenAid with the whisk attachment (or again whatever mixer you own), weighing scales and a spoon.

I only required a few ingredients for the frosting; icing sugar, milk, butter and cocoa powder.
To pipe the frosting I used a 1M tip and did a simple swirl.

voilà

These cupcakes were quite tasty, but my friend (my ultimate taste taster) thought that there was too much cinnamon. To avoid this problem you can easily add less cinnamon/ add to taste.
Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed my first blog post :)