Banana - Chocolate Cupcakes. In a large bowl whisk together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. The cream cheese frosting makes it even more special. I did end up adding just a tad bit more flour to the batter as it seemed too loose.

This recipe calls for coffee, which makes the chocolate flavor more intense. You can substitute boiling water but I strongly recommend the coffee. You can use decaf if you're sensitive to caffeine. You can have Banana - Chocolate Cupcakes using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Banana - Chocolate Cupcakes

It's 1/2 cup of butter.
It's 1 cup of sugar.
It's 1/2 cup of greek yoghurt (or sour cream).
It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
It's 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
It's 1 1/2 tbsp of vanilla.
Prepare 2 of mashed bananas.
It's 1/2 cup of chocate chunks.
It's 2 of eggs.

Finally, add chocolate shavings and stir. Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full. The batter is a snap to make because you just stir the wet ingredients together in one bowl and the dry ingredients together in another bowl. Mix the two and you are done.

Banana - Chocolate Cupcakes step by step

Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Cream butter and sugar.
Mix in eggs, yoghurt, flour, baking soda and vanilla.
Stir in bananas and chocolate chunks.
Fill cupcake liners 3/4.
Bake for 20 minutes.

The batter is quite thin so use an ice cream scoop or small ladle to fill the muffin cups. These Chocolate and Banana Cupcakes are so light, buttery, and moist that you'll find yourself hovering over the bananas, counting the seconds until they're just ripe enough to make a new batch. And so… the Chocolate Banana Cupcakes were born! These chocolate banana cupcakes are a dark chocolate cake with chunks of banana running through it. Then, they're topped with a swirl of rich, dark chocolate frosting and a fresh banana slice.