Delicious Chocolate Banana Cupcakes

I had to put delicious up there in the title because it was delicious.  I used my marbled banana chocolate cake recipe and made it into chocolate banana cupcakes.  I invited few friends for a play date and decided to make something for coffee/tea in the afternoon.  I made this along with some chocolate chips cookies and I just realized all my snack have chocolate chips in it!

The cupcake was soft, moist, chocolaty and tasted like banana.  Truly delectable!  I added chocolate chips because my girls loved them.  I had to stop them from eating more because this was meant to be shared. ;)  At the play date, I noticed that all the kids would pick out the chocolate chips to eat first, my girls included. :)  If you like my recipes, put this on your to-try list, you won't be disappointed.

I saw this butterfly silicon cupcake cups at Target and had to buy it, it was 6 for $1 at the Dollar section, how cheap.  It was so cute too and I regretted I didn't pick up the flower silicon cups for the same price, as when I went back, it was all gone. :(  I guess you paid for quality too, this had some broken pieces and the silicon was pretty thin, but it's usable.

How it looked from the bottom. 

Ingredients:

(A)

• 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp. sugar
• 1/4 cup canola oil (or vegetable oil)
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup milk (I used 1%)
• 2 bananas, smashed (I used frozen)

(B)

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt

(C)

• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted (microwave [900watt] for 1 min 40 seconds) 
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• Extra chocolate chips for decoration (optional)
  

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350'F. Line a baking pan with silicon cupcake cups or line some paper cups in muffin pan. Set aside.

2. In a big bowl, hand whisk together (A). Add in (B), whisk until well blended.

3. Add in (C) and whisk to combine.

4. Use a big spoon and scoop some of the batter into the silicon cups, slightly less than 3/4 full.  Place some chocolate chips on top for decoration (optional).

5. Bake for 20 minutes or until a bamboo stick inserted in center comes out clean.

6. Cool on wire rack and store in air-tight container.