Easiest Way to Vegan Perfect Banana Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting

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Banana Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting. For the frosting, using an electric mixer or stand mixer, cream butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and milk and beat until frosting is well combined. While the strawberry cupcakes are cooling, prepare the strawberry banana frosting. (You're going to make one frosting and split into two to color + flavor).

No really, that pretty pink frosting isn't just for fun.

In this easy recipe we'll show you how to split one batch of buttercream into two different flavors then pair them together again to create one colorful, and fruity, combination.

So these cupcakes have all of the same flavors of a traditional banana split.

You can have Banana Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Banana Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting

1. Prepare of CUPCAKE.

2. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of flour.

3. It’s 1 tbsp of baking soda.

4. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.

5. It’s 1 cup of sugar.

6. Prepare 3/4 cup of light brown sugar.

7. Prepare 2 of eggs.

8. You need 4 of ripe bananas, mashed.

9. It’s 2/3 cup of sour cream.

10. It’s of FROSTING.

11. Prepare 1 of (3.4oz.) vanilla instant pudding.

12. It’s 1/4 cup of milk.

13. It’s 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.

14. You need 1 of (8oz.) tub of cool whip.

15. Prepare 1/2 cup of strawberries, chopped small.

16. You need 1 tbsp of each of sugar and water.

17. It’s 6 of drops if red food coloring.

The cupcake is a banana flavored cupcake.

The next layer is a rich chocolate ganache, which is topped with a strawberry buttercream frosting.

And of course, no banana split would be complete without a sweet maraschino cherry on top.

This strawberry banana cupcake recipe is a quick, easy, "semi-homemade" treat.

Banana Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting instructions

1. The night before I want to make this I cut up the strawberries, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of water. Mix and put in the refrigerator. The next day smash them up with a fork. If you dont want to do this step, you could use strawberry ham instead..

2. CUPCAKE:.

3. Preheat oven to 350. Place 24 cupcake liners in cupcake pans.

4. In small bowl combine flour, baking soda, set aside..

5. In large bowl , cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat eggs in one at a time..

6. Mix in bananas.

7. Add flour mixture alternating with the sour cream.

8. Fill each cup 3/4 of the way full.

9. Bake for 25 to 30 mins.

10. FROSTING:.

11. In large bowl mix pudding, milk, and powdered sugar until combined..

12. Fold in whip topping. Add strawberry mixture or jam and 6 drops red food coloring. Fold everything until combined. Place in refrigerator until ready to use.

13. An easy way to frost them is to put the frosting in a zip lock bag, cut of the end and swirl onto the cupcake. It is much faster too!.

It starts with a boxed cake mix to keep things simple, but it's jazzed up with some extra ingredients to make it extra moist and flavorful.

If you'd like to make cupcakes from scratch, check out these cupcake recipe ideas.

Moist banana cupcakes with sweet strawberry frosting.

Make the cupcakes: Using a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together in a large bowl on medium speed until creamed.

With the mixer running on low speed, add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after.