Deborah and Charlotte’s Banana Split Cupcake

This is one dessert we won’t be splitting! Sharing may be caring but some cupcakes are too delicious to give up, including Deborah and Charlotte’s Banana Split Cupcake, complete with our very own Banana and Strawberry Nothing But.

You could say that we are bananas for a good cupcake recipe, we find it hard not to eat the whole bunch in one go!

What you’ll need

For the sponge:

• 70g unsalted butter, room temp
• 170g plain flour
• 250g caster sugar
• 55g cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 220ml whole milk
• 2 large duck eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla bean

For the frosting:

• 250g icing sugar
• 80g unsalted butter, room temp
• 20ml whole milk
• 1 tsp vanilla bean

For the meringue drops:

• 2 duck eggs, whites only
• 120g caster sugar
• 3 packets of Nothing But Strawberry and Banana
• Dark chocolate, melted

 How to make it

1. Preheat the oven to 170C and line a cupcake tin.
2. Add the butter, flour, caster sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into an electrical mixer.  Beat until it represents sandy texture.
3. In a jug, add the eggs, milk and the vanilla and whisk until combined.
4. Slowly add the liquid to the dry and mix until combined.
5. Using a ice cream/cookie scoop divide the batter evenly between the cases.
6. Bake for 25 minutes.
7. Once the cakes are cooling start making the meringue.
8. Preheat the oven to 110C.
9. Place some baking paper onto a cookie sheet.
10. Divide the banana and strawberry into bowls and then blend to a dust.
11. To each fruit dust and a few drops of water until it turns into a paste.  If needed add a bit of yellow to the banana.
12. Put a star tip into a piping bag.
13. Start painting stripes into the piping bag in your desired pattern. Set aside.
14. Whist the egg whites with an electrical mixer until stiff peaks.
15. Add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time.  Make sure the sugar is dissolved before each spoonful.
16. Spoon the meringue into the pipping bag.
17. Pipe the meringues onto the baking paper.
18. Cook for 1 hour and 20 Minutes and allow to sit in the oven cooling for 30 minutes.
19. Crush up  1 packet of nothing but snacks.
20. Dip the meringues into melted chocolate and sprinkle over the nothing but snacks.
21. Now time to make the best frosting known to baking.
22. Beat the icing sugar and butter together in a electric mixer, on medium high.
23. Turn down to slow and add the milk and vanilla bean and beat for 10 minutes. This is what makes it amazing.
24. Pipe on the vanilla frosting using any tip you want.
25. Add a meringue.

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