Banana Split Cupcakes

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Step 1: Bake Banana Cakes

Banana Cake

3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup milk
1 cup banana puree (I roast my bananas in the peel for 10 minutes at 350, this intensifies the flavor)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 and line cupcake pans. (this recipe makes 24)

Cream butter on medium with sugar until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time until incorporated. In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients. In another bowl (now that's a lot of bowls), combine milk, banana and vanilla.

You'll want to add the dry and wet ingredients in three parts to the sugar/egg batter - first the wet, then the dry, then the wet, then the dry...you get the picture. Mix at low until everything is mixed together then stop, try not to over beat as this can end in a deflated cupcake in the oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.