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Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

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Banana cupcakes are another way to use up overripe bananas. Bananas never have to go to waste. There are so many possibilities for overripe bananas that I am now looking forward to them being neglected on our counter. I will be there to swoop them up to experiment with more goodies. This post contains affiliate links, but all opinions are my own.

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

This experiment also gave me an excuse to use my new favorite cinnamon chips. Turns out that Hershey’s Cinnamon Chips are not as mysterious as I thought since I just found them at Jewel. I thought I stumbled on some rare treasure, but apparently I just didn’t look hard enough at the store! In any case, they are super yummy.

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

These banana cupcakes are so darn easy and pretty much cheating since I used a box of cake mix. Any flavor cake mix will work, and it will be fun to try different combinations. I used a cheap box of yellow cake mix that I had in the cabinet for longer than I’d like to admit.

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

Cupcake Ingredients:

Makes about 21 standard size cupcakes

  • 1 box cake mix (I used yellow)
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 overripe bananas
  • 1/2 cup cinnamon chips

Frosting Ingredients:

  • 1 package of French vanilla instant pudding mix
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar
  • Sprinkle of cinnamon sugar (optional)
  • 1 tub of Cool Whip

Cupcake Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line cupcake tins.
  3. Mash bananas in a mixing bowl.
  4. Melt coconut oil and add to bananas.
  5. Mix eggs into the mixture and slowly add in the cake mix.
  6. Once everything is mixed well, stir in the chips by hand.
  7. Pour batter into cupcake tins about 3/4 of the way.
  8. Bake for about 18 minutes.

Frosting Instructions:

  1. Beat pudding, milk, and powdered sugar using a mixer for about five minutes.
  2. Stir in Cool Whip by hand.
  3. Sprinkle in cinnamon sugar for taste. (Optional)
  4. Frost completely cooled cupcakes. Store leftover frosting in the refrigerator.

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

The frosting is very sweet, and I will probably skip the cinnamon sugar next time. That was my sad attempt at trying to make my frosting look like the beautiful cupcakes on Pinterest. You know the ones with that multi-color swirl? Yeah, it didn’t happen. I used a piping tool to apply the frosting, but Cool Whip frosting melts. So, you must do this immediately before serving.

Banana Cupcakes Recipe with Vanilla Pudding Frosting

Follow Jennifer Soltys’s board Cakes & Cupcakes on Pinterest.
Overall, these banana cupcakes are a sweet and delicious treat that I will make again.


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Jennifer is the founder of A Magical Mess. She is married to a wonderful man, and together they live with their three rescue dogs. Jen is an entrepreneur at heart. Hobbies and interests include working, reading, playing word games, and learning new things.

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Comments

  1. Fee Roberts says

    May 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Oh my! I didn’t even know that they made cinnamon chips and I never knew that you could make frosting with pudding! Thanks for the recipe, I’ll definitely be trying this. Sounds so yummy!

  2. Sarah L says

    May 18, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    I didn’t know about cinnamon chips either. Wonderful. Great recipe

  3. David Fultner says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    I love new tasty ideas Thanks.

  4. M.Clark says

    May 18, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    Yum, Banana cupcakes with cinnamon chips, I need to remember to put cinnamon chips on my shopping list. I can’t wait to give this a try. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

  5. Nicole Dziedzic says

    May 18, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    These looks so delicious, my kids are always in the kitchen when i bake treats, not only do they love the treats, they love being able to lick the spoon and bowl. They would be all over these.

  6. Julie Wood says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:49 am

    These Cupcakes look so delicious and I love how easy and fun they are to make. I would love to make these for my Sister’s Birthday!

  7. Jessica Cox says

    May 19, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    These look really good and not to difficult to make.Your swirl is cute a lot better than I could do.

  8. David Fultner says

    May 20, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    I have never seen cinnamon chips. This sounds GREAT>

  9. Sarah L says

    May 24, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    This is something I could make. Thanks.

  10. Sarah L says

    May 29, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    I’ll make them this weekend. Thanks.

  11. courtney b says

    May 30, 2015 at 2:47 am

    I’ve never had a banana cupcake before but a homemade one sounds amazing- 🙂

    I think chocolate frosting woud be soooo much better though!!

  12. David Fultner says

    May 30, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    i have trouble eating bananas alone. I think these will be great.

  13. Petro @ The Seaman Mom says

    June 1, 2015 at 7:55 am

    These look amazing! I’ve got some bananas no one’s gonna eat, apparently so I’m going to make some of these goodies today.

  14. Laurie says

    June 3, 2015 at 8:54 am

    I love, love, love anything with banana! Pinning! (and making!) Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and share with us at Brag About It! Looking forward to seeing what you will be sharing with us next week!
    ~Laurie

  15. Alexis @ Chemistry Cachet says

    June 4, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    That frosting looks fantastic! What a great idea! I will have to try that out soon. Pinning to my sweet treats board. Stopping over from Idea Box. Hope you have a great day!

  16. Jeanine says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:35 am

    there is a stabilizer that you can use for making frosting that you don’t want to collapse-maybe that would help with this frosting? These sound (and look) yummers!!

  17. Kayla says

    June 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    Oh wow the entire idea of banana with vanilla is just amazing!Keep it up 😀

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