Cupcake Tuesday-Strawberry Banana

Ah Tuesday, welcome back to Tuesday everyone!  

My niece turned 1 a month or so ago and we had a party for her this weekend.  Now as you can imagine I'm the baker in the family so I got to make her some delicious cupcakes!  She loves fruit so we went with Strawberry Banana and we also used some fondant and made a sock! 

I was pretty pleased with the result, considering that decorating is NOT my specialty.  And it was so fun to see my beautiful little niece smashing her cupcake into her mouth eating her cupcake.  I loved it!

So this recipe is super simple (do I say that about all of them?).  It's a banana cupcake with strawberry cream cheese frosting.  Yum!

Banana Cupcakes
makes 24
2 sticks butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
salt
vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup mashed banana

Preheat oven to 350 and line 2 cupcake pans.

In a large bowl whip the butter and sugar using a mixer, this will take about two minutes, you want it to be light and smooth.  Once the butter is whipped, add in the eggs, one at a time.  Mix for about a minute, or until well combined.

Next, add in the vanilla and salt to taste (I'm bad and don't measure either, ever) followed by the baking soda and baking powder.

Now mesure your flour as well as your sour cream and banana.  Add in about 1/3 of the flour and mix until just combined.  Then, add in all of the sour cream.  Follow this with another addition of 1/3 of the flour and then the mashed banana.  Add the last 1/3 of the flour and mix until combined.

Once mix, scrape the sides and mix one last time to make sure that everything is incorporated.

Scoop into the lined cupcake pans filling each one about 2/3 full, or using a 2 oz. ice cream scoop.

Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
2 8 ounce blocks cream cheese
1 stick butter
1 1/2 tablespoons strawberry jam
3-4 cups powdered sugar

In a large bowl cream together the cream cheese and butter using a mixer.  Once those two are well mixed and a bit light, add in the strawberry jam and mix well.

Now, start adding in powdered sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.  I always taste as a go to avoid over sweetening the frosting.

When it has reached a nice consistency and flavor, scoop into a piping bag and pipe on to the cooled cupcakes (you can also just use a knife/spatula to frost them).

Decorate as you please and enjoy!

In other news, I used this fondant recipe.

Love,

Keely

Sunday School-Banana Nut Brunch Bundt

Banana nut brunch bundt, trying saying that three times fast!

The great news about this cake is that it's practically dessert but the bananas make it totally ok for brunch, which means you're a winner!

The cake is dense, flavorful and moist.  It's so yummy with some scrambled eggs, some fruit salad, and it's pretty easy!  You could definitely make it the night before and take it to brunch, super fancy style!



Love brunch, wish I could have it ever Sunday :)

Banana Nut Bundt

adapted from Taste of Home

1/3 cup butter

1 1/4 cups sugar

2 eggs

vanilla

2 large mashed bananas

2 cups flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

salt

1 cup sour cream

chopped walnuts

powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350.  Grease a bundt pan, extra well!  I always freak out about it, so I use a lot of spray.

In a large bowl add the butter and sugar.  Cream with a mixer together until lighter in color and slightly fluffy.  Mix in the mashed bananas.

Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter mixture and mix well.

In a medium bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt

Add 1/3 of the flour to the butter mixture and mix until incorporated.  Add 1/2 of the sour cream.  Add another 1/3 of the flour, then the last half of the sour cream and finally, the last 1/3 of the flour.

Scrape the sides of the bowl and then mix in the chopped walnuts.

Pour the batter into the greased pan.



Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Remove the cake from the oven and turn upside down on a cooling rack.  Allow to cool for 10 minutes.

When the cake is removed from the pan dust with powdered sugar and sprinkle some more chopped nuts on top.

Enjoy, my loves!

Love,

Keely

 

Weekly Wrap Up

Ah Friday, you have finally made it.

Isn't strange how your first week back from vacation is either insanely fast or incredibly slow.  This week has been the latter for me. Monday felt like Wednesday, and that's never a good sign.

Sorry I missed last week, but as mentioned I was away working at a camp, there wasn't a lot of Instagraming happening.

However, this week I'm taking you all the way back to two weekends ago, to get all caught up!



My first ever Smash pages!  I love Smashing so much (have you picked up a Smashbook yet?)



I thought these cupcakes looked so pretty in the morning sunshine, Strawberry Lime, not my best work but reasonably good.



Cinnamon pancakes!  I shared the recipe here.



My roommate and I went out to a tea shoppe that makes food that is all made with tea.  I got pulled pork sliders, yummy!



I tried to "competition" at a Food Truck party, not to have an ego or anything, but I win.



Camp cupcakes!  Malted Chocolate, Spicy Mango, and Orange.  They were all gone on Friday afternoon :)



After I got back donuts sounded amazing.  So that's what the roomie and I did, they were delicious!



We had an insane downpour here in Denver on Saturday.  I just waited it out in my car while waiting for my friend to show.  We got new ear piercings :))



Banana nut bundt anyone?



It's pretty much a miracle that my full sized cake came out, but it did, and it was gorgeous!



This picture is not as exciting as it looks.  Hooray Casa Bonita!



A lovely day in the park listening to some free music.  I love trumpet players (there was one that was potentially attractive).



My lovely hair pins from Petunia Blooms.  I love them!  (You can also see the new piercing :))



And last but not least, I died a piece of my hair blue.  Finished pictures when I have a finished hair do!

Have a lovely weekend!

Love,

Keely