Earlier in the week, I picked up a copy of Paula Deen’s Holiday Baking issue for this year. Have gone through it several times & found some things I want to try. The recipe for the Banana Pineapple Cupcakes looks interesting. I still have bananas. Check the ingredients & discover the only thing I need to get is pineapple. The decision is made. Banana Pineapple Cupcakes it is!
The one change I make to the recipe is to leave out the pecans. Having heard Paula talk on her shows about how much she loves pecans, I’m sure she would be heart-broken if she knew. However, I don’t care for walnuts or pecans so I don’t use them. (I do make an exception for fruitcake.) The cupcakes mix up quickly & easily which is a definite point in their favor.
The baked banana pineapple cupcakes cooling on the wire racks.
Sitting on the rack cooling, they are a temptation Jim cannot ignore. He asks if they’re available to eat. Being assured that he can have however many he wants of them, he starts in eating them before they’re iced. He questions me about what kind of icing I plan on putting on them. He seems satisfied when I tell him I’m going to use a cream cheese icing. However, he’s a bit skeptical about being able to taste the pineapple in them once the cupcakes are iced.
This is when it occurs to me, that it’s a good thing he didn’t wait for them to be iced before eating 3 or 4 of them. Keeping what he said in mind, I decide to add some undrained crushed pineapple to the icing. We’re both pleased with the taste of the pineapple in the cream cheese icing so it’s time to frost the cupcakes. That job doesn’t take long. After getting into the cupcakes again, Jim tells me the icing is good on the cupcakes & highlights the pineapple in the cupcakes.
What they look like iced.
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