{"id":2523,"date":"2012-05-04T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2012-05-04T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:50:21","slug":"yummy-stuff-banana-sour-cream-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Stuff: Banana Sour Cream Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7086\/6976352240_7371667c3e_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We often have the strangest banana situation around here. As in, we go through a ridiculous amount of bananas, but there always seem to be a few that go brown more quickly than anticipated and we are left with the ever-pressing question of <em>what to do with the mushy bananas? <\/em>There is banana bread of course (and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1304\" target=\"_blank\">cinnamon swirl banana bread<\/a> to boot), but on days when we need a special sweet treat, there are <em>sour cream\u00a0banana cupcakes with cream cheese and caramel frosting. <\/em>Whew. What a name. It&#8217;s mostly from <a href=\"http:\/\/butteryum.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/to-die-for-banana-cake-with-vanilla.html\" target=\"_blank\">this recipe<\/a>, but I changed up the frosting because I didn&#8217;t care for the sugary-sweet buttercream frosting from the original recipe. Plus, I added caramel- what&#8217;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7041\/6976351492_885f4b9d59_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sour Cream Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese and Caramel Frosting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>**makes 12 cupcakes**<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 very ripe bananas<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup sour cream<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp softened butter<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp. baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 cup flour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>For Frosting:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 8-oz package cream cheese, room temperature<\/li>\n<li>4 Tbsp. butter, room temperature<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups confectioner&#8217;s sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp. melted prepared caramel (I used King&#8217;s Cupboard from Whole Foods)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Preheat oven to 375. Mash bananas in mixer, then add melted butter and sugar and blend well. Add egg, then sour cream and vanilla. After well-incorporated, sprinkle baking soda on top of mixture, then flour. Mix gently until just blended, being careful not to over-mix.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Scoop into muffin cups lined with paper or sprayed with cooking spray (hint: I just learned this tip: if using muffin papers, spray the inside of the papers before you add the batter and the cupcakes will not stick when you peel the paper back!) and bake for 20-25 minutes (mine came out perfect at 21 minutes but I suppose it all depends on your oven). Allow to cool completely before frosting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For frosting: cream butter and cream cheese, then add vanilla and mix well. Add powdered sugar, continuing to mix until smooth. <em>Note: this makes a lot of frosting- enough to frost two batches of these cupcakes just in case you decide to double the recipe- and if you do, add an extra half a banana at least. Mine turned out a bit dry when I doubled the recipe<\/em>. Frost cupcakes, then drizzle with melted caramel. Enjoy!<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7108\/6976351154_4ab7ef61f1_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What are you up to this weekend? We are super excited that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgmarket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tower Grove Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a> is opening this weekend and will have a festival with all kinds of great music and food. We&#8217;re meeting up with some friends and hope to stay all morning. Plus, it&#8217;s supposed to be hot so the boys will probably spend the whole time dancing and playing in the water fountains. Hope you have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often have the strangest banana situation around here. As in, we go through a ridiculous amount of bananas, but there always seem to be a few that go brown more quickly than anticipated and we are left with the ever-pressing question of what to do with the mushy bananas? There is banana bread of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yummy Stuff: Banana Sour Cream Cupcakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[103,171],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-recipes","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}