This post was long… long… overdue!! Packing our lives up and moving back to Mason kept me away from doing it. I have been eyeing her ‘Awesomeness in a jiffy- Chocolate Banana Cake’ for a while – and what better day than today to use her recipe to make some Halloween themed muffins. This recreation is a part of Kolkata Food Blogger’s Know Your Blogger event. A warm, immaculate and sincere person with a great sense of humor is how I would describe her. Her blog reflects what she claims – she is a big foodie! Hailing from a finance background, she now runs a playschool with her husband. And oh, did I forget to mention that she has an adorable six year old! Needless to say, the muffins turned out awesome.
Ingredients:
- Flour – 1 1/4 cup
- Cocoa Powder – 1/4 Cup
- Sugar – 3/4 Cup
- Egg – 1 at room temperature
- Butter – 1/3 Cup or 5.5 tbs, melted
- Banana – 1 ripe, mashed
- Baking Soda – 1 tsp
- Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
- Milk – 1/2 Cup (my addition – my batter had become too thick)
- Chocolate Chip – 1/3 Cup (my addition to the recipe)
- Salt – 1/8 tsp or a pinch (my addition to the recipe)
- Coffee granules – 1/4 tsp (my addition to the recipe – takes the flavor of chocolate to another level)
Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. In a bowl, mixed all the dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl mix the ripe banana and melted butter and fold it into the dry ingredients. Then whisk in the egg .
Line your muffin tin with desired liners – I chose Halloween themed. And bake for 12-14minutes or till done. Baking time may vary depending on your oven. Insert a toothpick to check for doneness – it should come out clean.
I made some icing by whisking together confectioners sugar (1/2 Cup), Cream Cheese at room temperature (2 oz), Butter at room temperature (1 oz), milk (added little by little till I reached the consistency) and a dash of pumpkin pie spice to it. Decorated a bit!
awesome cupcake..perfect halloween decoration
super cute cuppies. ki bhalo baniecho
Thank you so much Sayantani & Indrani! 🙂
did i tell you this?
toder shonge dekha korar dine, i saw amazing halloween themed cupcake paper cups and decoration stuff at giggles – tarpor bhablam eishob rubbish boye niye jabi ki kore – okhane aaro interesting jinish pabi… ekhon mone hochhe je niye nilei hoto!