Name: Candied Pecan Banana Cupcake Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 24 min
Total time: 54 min
Ingredients: CUPCAKES:; 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour; 1 cups granulated sugar; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 large eggs (room temp); 1/3 cup vegetable or canola oil; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 cups mashed ripe banana (about 3 large); 1/4 cup milk; CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:; 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temp; 8 oz cream cheese room temp; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 3 cups powdered sugar; CANDIED PECANS:; 1 cup pecans; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 2 Tbsp water; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp cinnamon; GARNISH:; Butterscotch (jarred or check post for link to great homemade recipe.)

Candied Pecan Banana Cupcake Recipe. Easy stove top candied pecans crumbled on top of cream cheese frosting, drizzled with butterscotch on top of a sweet banana cupcake!

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This cupcake…gahhhh, leaves me speechless. You just have to taste it for yourself! Then you will see how sweet the banana cupcake is, you will see how the super easy stove top candied pecans crumble away sweetly into the tangy cream cheese frosting and feel the buttery butterscotch melt it all together into the best cupcake you’ve ever had.

1. Bananas! Why do I love baking with them? Let me count the ways:

Bananas make everything moist
They smell like heaven when baking
Bananas are so sweet and delicious tasting

2. Cream Cheese Frosting: Why do I love it on these cupcakes?

It’s tangy sweetness makes it one of the best frostings in the world
Not only is it rich but it’s a balancer to the all the sweet goodness we’ve got going on here.
It super creamy and melts in your mouth!

3. Stove Top Candied Pecans for cupcakes? You bet and here’s why:

So easy, all the work is done in one pan on the stove top.
In just a few minutes you are pouring these out of a pan to be cooled and crumbled!
Most importantly – Candied pecans are a treat by themselves, sweet, brown sugary and crumbly. They take these cupcakes to the next level.

Whats a fab cupcake without a drizzle, a butterscotch drizzle to be exact. There is nothing in the world like butterscotch, its sweet, rich, buttery and that golden color, extra please! Check out this great butterscotch recipe.

Put it all together and you have the Candied Pecan Banana Cupcake. In all honesty this name does not fully explain the perfection of all that is going on here. Just know you get a lot of flavor bang for the buck with this one.

Keep these Candied Pecan Banana Cupcakes in mind for your Easter menu! Check out these other fab banana recipes as well!!

Banana Cake With Brown Sugar Buttercream

Humming Bird Bread With Pineapple Glaze

Enjoy!

Stacey

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UPDATE AS OF 4/16/18 – Originally I had made a typo and listed the amount of flour as 1/2 cup. This error was fixed to reflect the correct amount of flour to be 1 1/2 cups. If you printed this recipe before the update please reprint. My apologies for the mistake.