I am lazy enough to not cancel a magazine subscription that I didn’t even order. This month I was glad that I didn’t cancel it because I found this recipe in a Glamour Magazine of all places. The recipe is from New York City’s Butter Lane Bakery.
On Serious Eats they describe the difference between two different icing types that they use @ Butter Lane Bakery. They make an American icing version and a French version. This recipe is the Americano! What do you think?
Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe!
Cupcakes:
1 ½ cups sugar
1 stick butter, softened
2 large eggs
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
¼ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 ¼ cups banana, mashed
Preheat the oven to 350F. In a mixer combine the sugar and softened butter. Add the eggs, vanilla, and mix well. Now combine all of the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowel. Then add the dry ingredients to the sugar and butter mixture and then add the buttermilk and mix 2 minutes more. Put cupcake liners into the muffin tins. Fold in the mashed banana to the batter and then fill the tins to 2/3’s full. Bake for 25 minutes.
Peanut Butter Frosting:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick softened butter, unsalted
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup peanut butter (the light colored creamy version is best)
3 tbsp milk
Blend these ingredients together in a mixer. I used the “natural” peanut butter but it looked really dark in color and I think a jiffy version smooth peanut butter would have a much nicer cupcake color.
This recipe sounds REALLY good… With that much butter though, I’ll have to wait and try it sometime when making cupcakes for a crowd…
Don’t overcook the cupcakes because they will get brown on the bottom. The bake time seemed pretty good with my oven.
I also found this recipe in my “free” glamour magazine that I dont’ know how I get it??? But i made these last night and they are awesome!!! The frosting turned out darker then what was pictured but it still tastes great!
Shannon- My frosting was darker too. So I am wondering if they gave us a different version because I used all natural peanut butter which is darker. Maybe they used a really creamy peanut butter version.
I made this as a cake. It was so good I had a hard time sharing it with famiy.
On the same page, at the bottom, was a receipe for steaks. They finished to medium in the oven. I can’t find the magazine! Any one have the steak recipe?
Debi- Here is the Steak recipe from Glamour:
Preheat oven to 375F.
1. Put butter, garlic, salt, pepper on meat and sear it on each side for 2-3min. (ribeye, tenderloin, t-bone) on the stove top in a cast iron skillet w/ veg. oil. Then cook it in the oven. 10min. on each side for a 2″ steak. Let rest 10min. before serving.
I substituted Nutella for the peanut butter..very good!
So how many cup cakes does this recipe make?
Hi Carole – It is supposed to make about 18 cupcakes. I made about 15 with this recipe.