42. Banana Cupcakes

Some people really don’t like banana. I don’t understand those people.

Banana bread/cake/muffins are some of my favourites. The flavour of banana is just so unique, you don’t really get anything else like it, at least not normally. I mean, apples taste kinda like pears, oranges and lemons can give pretty similar citrus flavours, but bananas? In a class of their own.

Here’s an extremely easy recipe for if you have a banana left over that’s gone just s bit too ripe for you to want to eat straight out of the fruit bowl.

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 1 overripe banana, mashed

• 100g (3.5oz) butter, room temperature

• 30g (1oz) golden syrup

• 140g (5oz) light brown sugar

• 170g (6oz) self-raising flour

• 2 eggs

• pinch of salt

• 1 tsp ground cinnamon

• 1 tsp ground ginger

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C and line a muffin tray

2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

3. Add in the mashed banana and golden syrup and mix until combined

4. Sift in the flour, salt, cinnamon and ginger and combine.

5. Add in the eggs and mix until batter has fully combined together.

6. Split your mixture evenly between 12 cases

7. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and risen.

8. Enjoy!