Mini Cupcake Banana Splits Recipes

BANANA SPLIT CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 12 cups of a muffin tin with paper liners.
• Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt in a bowl.
• Cream sugar and shortening together in a large mixing bowl. Add mashed bananas, buttermilk, egg, and vanilla extract. Add flour mixture and stir to combine. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, cream butter in the bowl of a stand mixer. Slowly add confectioners' sugar 1 cup at a time and mix until creamy; the final cup of sugar will not blend smoothly. Add milk until frosting is creamy. Mix in vanilla extract.
• Reserve 1/4 cup frosting in a separate bowl. Divide remaining frosting into 2 equal portions. Add cocoa to one portion and mix until thoroughly blended. Add jam to the other portion and mix until thoroughly blended.
• Pour cream into a microwave-safe container and heat in the microwave for 30 seconds. Add chocolate, butter, and instant coffee granules. Stir ganache until smooth and let sit until thickened, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Pipe a ring of chocolate buttercream frosting around the edge of a cooled cupcake; do not pipe too high. Fill in the center with a dollop of strawberry buttercream frosting. Place a banana chip on top and drizzle with ganache. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.

MINI BANANA SPLIT ICEBOX CAKES

Steps:

• In a blender, puree the diced strawberries with 1 to 2 tablespoons water until thick and smooth. Using an electric mixer, whip the cream until soft peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and strawberry puree and continue whipping until slightly stiff peaks form, 1 to 2 minutes.
• For each dessert, place a chocolate cookie on a plate. Dollop with 1 tablespoon of the strawberry whipped cream; gently press another cookie on top. Repeat, alternating cookies and whipped cream, to make a stack 6 cookies high, ending with a cookie. Wrap lightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate until the cookies soften slightly, 3 to 4 hours. Cover and refrigerate the remaining whipped cream.
• Just before serving, use an offset spatula or butter knife to smooth the sides of the cakes. Top each cake with a few strawberry and banana slices and some of the remaining whipped cream. Drizzle with chocolate syrup. Sprinkle with peanuts and top with a maraschino cherry.

TINY BANANA SPLITS

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with parchment. Put the chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl, and microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until smooth. Transfer the melted chocolate to a mug.
• Put the walnuts in another small bowl. Peel the bananas, trim the ends and cut each into six 2-inch pieces. Dip each piece halfway into the chocolate, and let any excess drip off. Roll the chocolate-dipped ends in walnuts, then set them on the prepared baking sheet. Refrigerate to set the chocolate. (The bananas can be refrigerated up to 2 hours.)
• Whip the cream in a small bowl until soft peaks form. Add the preserves, and stir to incorporate. Transfer the mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip. Pipe a star-shaped dollop on top of each banana. Garnish with a piece of cherry and sprinkles.

BANANA SPLIT CUPCAKES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350° F.
• Line cupcake pans with paper liners.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt; whisk together and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream together the butter and sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Reduce the mixer speed to medium low and add in eggs one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Mix in 1 the mashed banana until well combined.
• With the mixer on low speed alternately add the dry ingredients and buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients and mixing only until just incorporated.
• Divide the batter between the prepared cupcake liners, filling each about 2/3 to 3/4 full.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20-22 minutes.Allow to cool in the pan 5-10 minutes, then transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
• When the cupcakes are cooled, prepare the frosting. Cream butter and shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed.
• Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at a medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Put frosting into a piping bag (or a Ziploc bag with a small corner cut off).
• Pipe a swirl of the frosting in a circle on each cupcake, covering most of the top of the cupcake.
• To make the ganache, place the chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl.
• Bring the cream to a simmer over medium-high heat.
• Remove from the heat and pour the hot cream over the chocolate; let stand 1-2 minutes.
• Whisk together until a thick, smooth ganache forms.
• Blend in the corn syrup.
• Let stand at room temperature at least 10 minutes so the ganache is not hot.
• To finish the cupcakes, pour a spoonful of the ganache over the vanilla frosting of each cupcake. Garnish with sprinkles and maraschino cherries before the glaze sets.Chill the assembled cupcakes until ready to serve.

MINI CUPCAKE BANANA SPLITS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place mini paper baking cup in each of 24 mini muffin cups. In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat 2 minutes longer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in bananas and vanilla. On low speed, alternately add flour mixture, about a third at a time, and milk, about half at a time, beating just until blended.
• Fill each cup with about 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon batter or until about two-thirds full. (Cover and refrigerate remaining batter until ready to bake; cool pan 15 minutes before reusing.)
• Bake 17 to 20 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove cupcakes from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. Repeat with remaining batter to make an additional 48 mini cupcakes.
• To assemble, remove paper baking cups from cupcakes. Arrange 3 cupcakes in each serving dish; place small scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of or next to first cupcake, chocolate ice cream on second cupcake and strawberry ice cream on third cupcake. Top vanilla ice cream with 1 tablespoon pineapple topping, top chocolate ice cream with 1 tablespoon chocolate topping and top strawberry ice cream with 1 tablespoon strawberry topping. Sprinkle each serving with about 2 teaspoons pecans. Garnish with whipped cream and a cherry.

BANANA SPLIT MINI PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven's broiler to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Chill a mixing bowl, beaters from electric mixer, and cream in the freezer for 10 minutes. Arrange pie crusts on a baking sheet.
• Cook pie crusts under the broiler until browned and toasty, 2 to 4 minutes. Remove crusts from oven and cool.
• Beat cream in the chilled bowl using the chilled beaters until cream thickens. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract; beat until stiff peaks form. Transfer whipped cream to a piping bag or resealable plastic bag with a corner snipped off; refrigerate.
• Beat cream cheese in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Fold whipped topping into cream cheese until well-mixed. Spoon mixture into a pastry bag or a resealable plastic bag with a corner snipped off. Pipe cream cheese filling into each graham cracker crust, filling 1/3- to 1/2-full.
• Layer banana slices over cream cheese filling. Spread pineapple over banana layer. Spoon cherry pie filling over pineapple layer. Pipe whipped cream over cherry pie filling layer. Top each pie with pecans and chocolate syrup. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 30 minutes.

BANANA SPLIT CUPCAKES

Steps:

• To Make Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and place rack in the center of the oven. Line 20 regular-sized muffin cups with paper liners or spray each cup with a non stick vegetable spray.
• In a large bowl whisk together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In another large bowl, whisk together the eggs, mashed bananas, water, milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir, or whisk, until combined. Pour or scoop the batter into the muffin cups, filling almost full, and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
• (**PS - the batter is pretty thin, but it turns out well!).
• Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
• To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, blend together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar, mixing well until it's all incorporated. Use immediately. The frosting will harden in the fridge, so plan on bring it back to room temperature if you must refrigerate it before frosting the cupcakes.

BANANA-CHIP MINI CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, combine muffin mix, water, sour cream and egg; stir just until moistened. Fold in 1/2 cup chocolate chips. , Fill greased or paper-lined miniature muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a microwave, melt shortening and remaining chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Frost cupcakes.

MINI BANANA SPLITS

Steps:

• Whip cream to soft peaks; set aside. Place banana slices around inside edges of 6 small bowls. Fill with a scoop of frozen yogurt; top with strawberry or caramel sauce, if desired, and whipped cream.