Soft and fluffy Banana Cupcakes
With shelf stable cream cheese icing
Which means no vegan cream cheese needed and no refrigeration needed either!
Guaranteed these are the most delicious banana cupcakes you will ever try
The Cream Cheese Frosting is so perfect with my new recipe also known as the 2-2-2
Click through and see why it will become your new favorite icing!
Notes for Success:
**Upon creation of this recipe you will see that I was using The Plant Based Egg ~ Egg Replacer by Freely Vegan
Since it is no longer available I have since stopped promoting it and I now use Bob’s Red Mill as a 1:1 sub *not sponsored
Feel free to use any other dry blend egg replacer of your choice equivalent to 1 egg
Honestly the egg replacer is not going to make or break this recipe so it can be omitted altogether with no changes
Soy milk is my choice in baking recipes but you can use any plant milk you prefer
This original method of making vegan cream cheese icing is a very fragile one
Since vegan cream cheese likes to break down into a soupy mess when it is mixed
Be sure to check out the No Cream Cheese version of cream cheese icing instead of the recipe I show in the video!
WATCH HOW TO MAKE THESE CUPCAKES
Banana Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Banana Cupcakes
- 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons All Purpose Flour 140g
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 5 Tbs Vegan Butter 70g
- 10 Tbs Granulated Sugar 128g
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons Egg Replacer
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract 10ml
- 1 cup Ripe Mashed Banana 1 large approx 175g
- ⅓ cup Plant Milk 78ml
- ½ cup Chopped lightly toasted walnuts
For the icing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ & line your cupcake tin with paper liners
- Cream the vegan butter with the sugar on medium high speed until light & fluffy, This will take approximately 4 minutes.
- Scrape the bottom & sides of the bowl thoroughly for an even mix
- Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, egg replacer, salt & cinnamon.
- Combine the vanilla extract with the plant milk
- Once the butter is creamed sufficiently add 1/3 of the sifted dry ingredients & mix just until combined not any longer
- Next add ½ of the milk/vanilla & mix just until blended
- Add another 1/3 of the dry ingredients while mixing on low, then add the remaining milk, then the last of the dry.
- Add the banana last along with the optional walnuts & mix to incorporate
- Scoop the batter into paper lined cupcake molds filling ¾ full & bake immediately for 20- 25 minutes or until springy to the touch when you gently press the centers
- Cool completely while you prepare the cream cheese icing according to that recipe post
- Ice cupcakes & sprinkle with additional chopped toasted nuts *optional
Yummy. Will try them definately
Your dessert recipes look so delicious and I really want to try them. Do you have any recommendations on how to make them gluten free friendly also wondering if you will be able to make some Gluten Free desserts on your channel. ?
I dont know much about gluten free, except that when it is GF AND vegan, it is not always a straight sub to GF flour, sometimes the fat needs to be adjusted AND if the GF mix has gums in it, this makes a difference also.
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These look delicious and I have some left over banana in my freezer. It says to use egg replacement, then see notes. But I can’t see what egg replacement you’ve used. Could you please let me know. Thank you ❤️
Hey there, yes I have a “Notes for Success” section on all my recipes (*it’s just a little bit above the actual recipe in the text of the article)
and it states: Upon creation of this recipe you will see that I was using The Plant Based Egg ~ Egg Replacer by Freely Vegan
Since it is no longer available I have since stopped promoting it and I now use Bob’s Red Mill as a 1:1 sub
You can sub in any other dry blend egg replacer of your choice equivalent to 1 egg, or use 1 Tbs flax meal reconstituted with 3 Tbs of the plant milk from the recipe
These cupcakes look delicious! What do you suggest we use in place of the plant-based egg until it’s available?
Hi Louisa, thanks, I made a note about it here on the recipe section:
I am using my preferred egg replacer the Plant Based Egg by freely Vegan. This egg replacer allows me to add it dry to the dry ingredients. If you use another egg replacer of your choice or even flax to substitute for 1 egg, you will add the reconstituted egg replacer to the recipe after the creaming in the first step, then proceed with the recipe as written.
Delicious recipe!
Followed this recipe exactly, except I used a flax egg and I found that one large banana was not big enough to make one cup mashed.
Baked it in an 8X8 Pyrex at 350 for 40ish minutes longer to compensate timewise.
Used a vegan chocolate frosting recipe I found elsewhere; the recipe required a lot of modification, so it’s not worth sharing; however, it still tasted awesome on this cake (I added a tiny bit of rum). Will probably try the cream cheese frosting at some point, but without the cream cheese frosting, I almost always have all these ingredients on hand.
Yes since all bananas grow differently its always hard to say how many it will take to fill one cup which is why I listed it as 1 cup, thanks for the feedback!
Yes, thanks for listing 1 cup of banana – I hate ambiguous cooking instructions! My fiance and I finished off this cake in one night. He asked me to make another.
GREAT! thankyou too!
Hi Gretchen,
These cupcakes are so delicious! My boyfriend generally is not a big fan of ¨sweet stuff¨, but he devours these. Two days ago, I baked 12 cupcakes and I doubled the recipe today to make a 3-layer mini cake. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes with us!