Banoffee Pie is one of my favourite desserts so I just had to turn it into Banoffee Cupcakes! These delicious gooey bites include a moist banana sponge, a hidden rich caramel centre, whipped cream piped on top and decorated with a fresh banana slice and chocolate. They are yummy bites of banoffee goodness!
How to make Banoffee Cupcakes
To make the sponge mix together butter, light brown sugar and Biscoff spread. Then add eggs and mashed up bananas and mix well.
Next, fold in self raising flour and baking powder, and then divide the batter between cupcake cases in a tin.
Bake them for 20 minutes, then leave them to cool fully. Once they are cool, cut holes in the middle of the cupcakes using a cupcake corer and fill them with caramel sauce. Decorate with whipped cream, banana slices and chocolate sprinkles.
What caramel sauce should I use?
My favourite caramel sauce to use is my Homemade Caramel Sauce, it's rich, smooth and absolutely divine! You can also easily add salt to it to make it into a salted caramel sauce. If you don't want to make your own, it's quite easy nowadays to find a good quality ready made caramel (or salted caramel) sauce in the shops or online. I have used Tesco's Finest, Bonn Maman and Carnation Caramel in the past with great results.
Tips for making the Banoffee Cupcakes:
- The best bananas to use for the cupcakes are very ripe ones with brown spots on their skin.
- If you brush the banana that goes on top of the cupcakes with lemon juice, it will prevent them from going brown as quickly. Or you could decorate them with dried banana slices instead.
- If you don't want to decorate the cupcakes with whipped cream, a caramel buttercream would be delicious! There's a recipe in my Salted Caramel Cupcake post.
Recommended equipment & ingredients*
- Cupcake tin
- Electric hand mixer
- Piping bags
- Cooling rack
- Cupcake corer
- Flake bar
- Biscoff spread
- Pastel blue cupcake cases
- Wilton 2D Piping nozzle
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Banoffee Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the sponge
- 85 g Butter
- 100 g Light brown sugar
- 60 g Lotus Biscoff spread optional, but recommended!
- 3 Eggs large
- 2 Bananas mashed
- 175 g Self raising flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
For the filling & decoration
- 100 g Caramel sauce good quality shop bought or homemade
- 300 ml Double cream
- 1 tbsp Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- ½ a Cadbury's Flake bar or chocolate sprinkles
- 1 Large banana sliced
- Juice of ½ a lemon
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 160C Fan/180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 and line a cupcake tin with paper cases
- To make the sponge mix together the butter, light brown sugar and Biscoff Spread in a large mixing bowl
- Add the eggs and mashed bananas and mix in
- Gently mix in the self raising flour and baking powder, and then seperate the batter into a tin lined with cupcake cases
- Bake them for 20 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean, then put on a cooling rack to cool fully
- Once they are fully cool, cut holes in the middle of the cupcakes using a cupcake corer or a small knife, and fill them with the caramel sauce
- Whip up the double cream, vanilla extract and icing sugar with an electric hand whisk, put it into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle and pipe it onto the cupcakes, or spread on with a spoon
- Bash up the flake and sprinkle it all over the whipped cream, or decorate with chocolate sprinkles
- Slice up the large banana and brush both sides of the slices with lemon juice, then push them into the cream
- Serve these cupcakes immediately, or refridgerate overnight and eat within 24 hours
Laura Loves Cakes
These look really good and I really like the look of the Richmond Tea Rooms too...wish I lived a bit closer! I'd quite like to try one of your banoffee cupcakes...the hidden caramel in the middle is an added bonus 🙂
Kat Buckley
Thanks Laura! They were so yummy 🙂 I barely got a look in with my hungry colleagues around! If you ever visit Manchester, Richmond Tea Rooms is a must!
cupcake girl
I love banoffee and you made it in to a lovely easy cupcake! I have carnation caramel in the cupboard.....
Kat BakingExplorer
Thank you! Well that sounds like a great excuse to make some of these 😉
Victoria Lee
I don't really eat bananas, so I never consider banoffee bakes, but I should because it's an amazing flavour combination, and these look divine! Really like the addition of the Speculoos too, I still have a jar in the cupboard I haven't done anything with...
Kat BakingExplorer
These are definitely worth trying even if you're not a big banana eater 🙂
Laura Loves Cakes
Thanks for entering your cupcakes Kat, they look delicious! I'd definitely like to try one as I'm a bit of a Banoffee fan! 🙂
Francesca Lobban
I don't have any biscoff spread to hand, anything else I could use instead? Sorry to be a pain. Thank you for helping.
thebakingexplorer
You could try peanut butter, or just leave it out, it won't affect the cupcakes 🙂
Katie
These cupcakes are amazing! 😍 Literally banoffee cupcakes! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I’ll be definitely making them again 😋
thebakingexplorer
Thank you Katie!
Becca C
I tried these out over the weekend - they were delicious!! Really easy to make, and the added extra of caramel sauce went down a treat. I used buttercream instead of whipped cream but they were just as nice, and received many complements from my friends 🙂 thanks Kat! X
thebakingexplorer
I'm so glad you enjoyed them Becca!
Stevie Leigh
These Cupcakes are Amazing! a Must Try!
Kelly Dawnay
These are soo good and incredibly easy to make. I had some overripe bananas so looked for something different from banana bread and these were such a refreshing change. Think I need to put a bit more caramel in next time but they were delicious either way. You're not helping my waistline Kat! 😂😂
thebakingexplorer
I'm so happy you liked them Kelly! 😀