This month's Sugar High Friday (dreamed up by The Domestic Goddess) is being hosted by CandyRecapper and the theme is baking with candy. I immediately thought of peanut butter cups and banana, and turned to a recipe for Banana Cake I made a few weeks ago but didn't photograph. Yay! A chance to make it again with the addition of peanut butter cups!
Banana Peanut Butter Cupcakes
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup mashed ripe banana (about 2 small to medium bananas)
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup soured milk or buttermilk
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Use a muffin tin and paper liners, so that the candy doesn't stick to the bottom.In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar. Add the mashed bananas and beat well, then add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add the vanilla and chopped nuts.
Sift together the cake flour, baking powder, soda and salt and beat into the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Beat for another minute or so.
Fill each muffin cup about 1/2 full and then place a peanut butter cup on top of the batter. Add enough batter to cover the candy and fill the muffin cup to just under the top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on wire racks for 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool thoroughly on racks.
Remove the paper from the cupcakes and place them on a rack (sit this on some foil or a baking sheet). Melt good quality choclolate (I used bittersweet), and drizzle a little over the center of the cupcakes. Add a slice of banana and drizzle more chocolate.
They were very tasty, but I was hoping the candy would sit in the middle instead of sinking to the bottom. On the other hand, it's like having frosting on both ends!
That is a great flavor combo! Where'd you get the recipe? Interesting problem with the peanut butter cup. Maybe it could work with 4/5 full and a drop of batter on top? Or maybe even with the cup on top, wait for it to sink :)
Posted by: Manggy | January 23, 2008 at 08:04 AM
or put a whole stack of peanut butter cups in the center, one on top of the others! yum, yum, yum. omg. i want one of these right now.
Posted by: katy | January 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM
My grandmother used to dust raisins with flour to keep them from sinking in batter -- I wonder if that would work? Or lightly chop the peanut butter cups into chunks. They look and sound delicious!
Posted by: Marla | January 23, 2008 at 01:37 PM
It seems like banana and reeces peanut butter cups have been a popular combination lately. These look great!
Posted by: Deborah | January 23, 2008 at 01:53 PM
I think next time, you should make banana peanut butter cup *pie.*
I kid. The cupcakes look fabulous.
Posted by: Karyn | January 23, 2008 at 03:20 PM
Bananas and peanut butter, peanut butter and chocolate...there's a theory of relativity equation in here somewhere. Ideal! This is one event that has me stumped, but then I have no loose candy hanging around. It tends to, ur, disappear. ; )
Posted by: Susan | January 23, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Looks very yummy. You can't go wrong with chocolate, banana and peanut butter.
Posted by: Psychgrad | January 23, 2008 at 06:00 PM
The cupcakes look marvellous, but I'm going to skip this recipe... peanut butter is one of those things I prefer not to eat unless I'm starving or fearful of causing offense.
Posted by: Adele | January 23, 2008 at 07:05 PM
I like the candy at the bottom, sort of like black-bottom cupcakes or something. Like Karyn I'd like to see the pie version... ;-)
Posted by: Cakespy | January 23, 2008 at 09:55 PM
I'm not a fan of peanut-butter cups, but my husband loves it, and he would love your cupcakes too:) they look great!!
-Mansi
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Posted by: Mansi | January 24, 2008 at 03:06 PM
those look beautiful! and very rich!
Posted by: Sophie | January 24, 2008 at 06:25 PM
Yum - I have never tried peanut butetr cups but these muffins look delish!
Posted by: Cakelaw | January 24, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Very creative & delicious looking!
Posted by: JEP | January 25, 2008 at 08:14 PM
Yum -- these looks great, I kinda like the idea of having frosting on both ends!
Posted by: Allen | February 01, 2008 at 08:09 PM
MMMM bananas and anything and I'm interested :) From the cake part it looked like a pretty good recipe. I really like your picture of the cupcakes cut in half, nice job! I agree with the blog events, sometimes the hardest thing to do is narrow down ideas on what to post... sometimes I need some guidance and this is a fun way to do it and to be able to see what everyone else has come up with. Like blog show and tell :)
Posted by: Emma | February 02, 2008 at 09:39 AM