Chocolate and Banana Cupcakes

Now this recipe is an adaptation of my carrot cake recipe. Now I've just listed banana and chocolate as the flavour but you can add walnuts to give the cake an extra crunch.

Ingredients:

250g Banana's
250-300g Chocolate Chips (Dark and Milk)
150g Margarine
200g Self-raising Flour
200g Brown demerara sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 tsp Baking Powder

Method:

1. Preheat Oven to 180°c.

2. Mash the banana's and mix in the vanilla extract.

3. Beat the sugar and the margarine together.

4. Add beaten eggs and the banana to the mixture and whisk to get some air in to the mixture.

5. Combine the dry ingredients together and add them a little add a time to the mixture. Folding the flour in and no trying to overwork the mixture. Once the mixture is combined add the chocolate chips. (If you want to add walnuts add them here)

6. Spoon the mixture either in to 12-18 cupcake cases, 8 mini loaf cases, a loaf tin or a cake tin. This mixture is really great and adjusts well for all forms.

7. Bake for 18 minutes (cupcakes) 20 minutes (mini-loaf) and 25-35 depending on how big the tins are, I would fetch them out the oven when they look like they're starting to go a darker brown.

8. Leave to cool on a baking tray. They don't need to be decorated and icing doesn't go too well with these cakes. Though if you wanted to add a chocolate buttercream I'm sure that would still taste okay.

- Emma xxx