
Recipe for banana cupcakes with velvety chocolate mousse
These banana cupcakes might, in all modesty, be some of the very best cupcakes I’ve ever baked! Moist and rich in banana flavor, with small chocolate chunks and crunchy nuts inside and on top; a velvety, intense chocolate mousse – it really doesn’t get much better than this.
The best part is that they are both easy, quick, and just totally irresistible! I won’t say much more other than try them! And let them speak for themselves.

Banana Cupcakes with Velvety Chocolate Mousse
Equipment
- Oven
- Bowl
- Hand Mixer
- Muffin Form
- Piping Bag
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 125 gram Butter melted or liquid
- 125 gram Sugar
- 3 pcs. Egg
- 2 pcs. Ripe Banana mashed
- 75 gram Dark chocolate coarsely chopped
- 50 gram Nuts e.g., hazelnuts or walnuts, chopped
- 125 gram Wheat Flour
- 2.3 gram Baking Soda
- 1 pinch Salt
Chokolademoussé
- 250 gram Cream
- 50 gram Cocoa powder
- 85 gram Sugar
- 2 gram Vanilla Sugar
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Put butter, eggs, and sugar in a bowl and whisk until airy.
- Add the remaining ingredients and whisk at low speed until smooth and even batter.
- Divide into muffin cups and bake for about 20 minutes until they are golden on the outside and firm on the inside.
- Once the muffins have cooled, cut a small hole down the top of each muffin. This hole will be filled with mousse so that you get deliciousness both inside and on top.
Chocolate Mousse
- Put all the ingredients for the mousse in a bowl and whisk together until you get a soft, fluffy mousse.
- Put the mousse in a piping bag with a star nozzle and fill the holes first, then the top of each muffin. Serve and enjoy!