I have the best recipe for banana cake everyone seems to love it. I’m in the mood for cupcakes though so here’s my guide to making Chocolate Banana cupcakes.

This recipe is also easy on the washing up!

This makes six muffin sized cupcakes, just double to amounts for twelve etc. (if you want to make a cake just change the cooking time to 30mins and put the mixture into a loaf tin)
What you’ll need:
A saucepan
A mixing bowl
Muffin tin
1 or 2 over ripe bananas (the horrible brownish ones that noone wants.
1 tablespoon of vanilla essence
1 medium sized egg
1/2 a cup of sugar
60g butter
1 cup of self raising flour
1/4 a cup of milk

Icing/hundreds and thousands for the decoration (or if your not as lazy as I am – make the icing yourself!)

1. Preheat oven to 180c and place muffin cases into muffin tin. (you can also just grease the muffin tin if you don’t have cases)

2. Melt butter in saucepan, turn off the heat and add the sugar and vanilla essence. Mix well and leave until its reasonably cool, so that you can add the egg without cooking it!

3. Sift the flour into the mixture, but don’t completely mix.

4. Put your bananas into a bowl and add the milk. Using a fork squash the bananas as much as you can.

5. Add the banana mixture to the saucepan and now finish the mixing until everything is evenly mixed in.

6. Pour mixture into the muffin cases and place in the oven for 20minutes. Test with a knife to see if cooked. Leave to cool.

7. When their coolish smother with chocolate icing and sprinkle with hundreds and thousands.

8. Scoff the lot. nomnomnom.

I’ve finished my maya assignment :P yay! Remember I showed you my work in progress, well several hours/days later (ie last night) I was finished, just had to render it and the bastard thing crashed. As it crashed it corrupted the file and I lost the whole fucking lot. Words cannot describe my anger at that point. Scarily though I managed to redo the entire thing in like half an hour.

I took it into electronics today and to my horror their advertising of “we have unlimited maya” is bollocks, theres 2 machines running it and their in the post grad room, so I had to redo my bunnies fur and make it plain white, grr.

But still its done and it looks terrible! I couldn’t do my trees, my grass or my fur so I had to settle for textures which are awful. ugh.

Now that I know how to model though I’m wanting to try out a person or something – so thats my afternoon sorted.