Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes topped with chocolate or cream cheese frosting are a tasty new way to enjoy those over-ripe bananas ... not to mention, they're a fun little baking project for some family time in the kitchen.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Pillsbury^TM.  The opinions and text are all mine.  Thank you to Pillsbury^TM for sponsoring creation of these tasty cupcakes and this post!

You know what's a great weekend activity to do with a spunky little 7-year-old?  Bake and decorate cupcakes, of course!

And that's exactly what our spunky Little Miss H. and I did this past weekend for a little family fun.  As a lover of baking, I feel so blessed to have a little one who shares that same love.  She just adores getting in the kitchen and whipping up all kinds of sweet treats with me.  Especially when she knows she's going to get to taste test those sweet treats in the end.

So this past weekend when we realized we didn't have a lot of plans that would have us running all around town the whole weekend, we decided to spend some quality time together in the kitchen experimenting with a new recipe for cupcakes.  And experimenting with a fun new frosting product from Pillsbury to decorate them.

So with the idea of whipping up some banana chocolate chip cupcakes, Little Miss H. and I headed out to our local Food Lion to grab our baking supplies ... some perfectly over-ripe bananas, a bag of mini chocolate chips, and a couple packages of the NEW Pillsbury^TM Filled Pastry Bag frosting.

That's right!  Your favorite Pillsbury's frosting is now available right there in the Food Lion grocery store baking aisle in a convenient pre-filled Pastry Bag ... all loaded up and ready to go.  Which makes it super easy to frost and decorate your family-favorite cupcakes.

We decided our banana chocolate chip cupcakes would go great with either cream cheese frosting or chocolate fudge frosting, and fortunately with Pillsbury's Pastry Bags we didn't have to choose.  Because the Pastry Bags come in both those flavors ... a creamy Cream Cheese flavor, and rich delicious Chocolate Fudge flavor, too.  {But vanilla lovers don't fret ... there's a Vanilla Pastry Bag, too!}

Decorating with the pre-filled Pastry Bags is really fun and super easy.  All you do is tear off the plastic from the end of the Pastry Bag to uncover the built-in star decorating tip {the plastic is perforated to make this extra easy}, and squeeze from the top of the Pastry Bag to pipe the frosting.

That's it!

Truly, they're such a breeze to use.  And you've got fun and easy little frosting decorations in a flash.

With the built-in star tip, you can frost your sweet treats in three fun designs ~ stars, rosettes, or waves.  We liked making stars the best.  When making the designs, we found that if the frosting became too "loose" in our warm kitchen, popping the Pastry Bag in the refrigerator for a few minutes brought the frosting right back to the perfect piping consistency.

After I had decorated a few of our cupcakes, spunky Little Miss H. gave her hand a try at it, too.  I think it made her feel all grown up to be piping designs out all by herself onto our cupcakes!

Little Miss H. and I had such a fun family afternoon of baking and decorating.  Thanks to our experiments with this Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes recipe, we've discovered a new sweet treat way to enjoy our over-ripe bananas, Little Miss H. taste-test approved.

And thanks to the NEW Pillsbury Filled Pastry Bag frostings, we've discovered a new convenient, easy, and fun way to frost our sweet treats, too.  All while enjoying a great afternoon of quality time together in the kitchen!

Check out these other tasty banana treats:

• Buttermilk Banana Bread
• Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
• Pumpkin Banana Bread
• Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding from Scratch
• Banana Pudding Yum Yum
• Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
• No-Bake Banana Split Cake
• Banana Pudding Pie
• Banana Pudding Cake
• More desserts & cupcakes

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Cupcakes

Yield: 16 cupcakes

Author: Tracey | The Kitchen is My Playground

Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes topped with chocolate or cream cheese frosting are a tasty new way to enjoy those over-ripe bananas ... not to mention, they're a fun little baking project for some family time in the kitchen.

prep time: 20 Mcook time: 25 Mtotal time: 45 M

ingredients:

• 1 c. all-purpose flour
• 3/4 c. granulated sugar
• 1 T. baking powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 5 T. unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 c. whole milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 medium-sized over-ripe banana, mashed
• 1/3 c. mini chocolate chips
• Pillsbury Filled Pasty Bag Chocolate Fudge Frosting
• Pillsbury Filled Pasty Bag Cream Cheese Frosting

instructions:

How to cook Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

1. Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and butter in a mixing bowl. Beat on slow speed until everything is combined and you have a crumb mixture with a sandy consistency.
2. Gradually pour in milk; beat until milk is just incorporated. Add eggs and beat until well combined.
3. Add mashed banana and mini chocolate chips; stir in by hand until just combined.
4. Line 16 muffin pan cups with paper or foil liners. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full and dividing the batter evenly across the 16 cups.
5. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes, or until the cake springs back when lightly touched and a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool slightly in the pan before removing cupcakes to a wire rack to cool. Cool completely before frosting.
6. Frost with Pillsbury Filled Pastry Bag chocolate frosting and/or cream cheese frosting.

TRACEY'S NOTES

1. This recipe makes 16 cupcakes. Don't be tempted to fill the muffin pan cups more fully, as it rises quite a bit and will spill out over the edges of the cups. When I divided the batter between only 12 muffin cups, all of them rose over the sides of the cups way too much.

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