Warning: This post has many pictures. Warm, melty Nutella Ganache happens to be very photogenic.
This is how I like my cupcakes. Not with towering frosting or piping bag swirls.
Just big, drippy spoonfuls of chocolate ganache.
I never really got into the cupcake craze. I like cake…and I like frosting. I’ve just never been ga-ga over it.
But honey banana cupcakes? With NUTELLA ganache?
That I’ll go ga-ga for.
If I could put that ganache into an IV, I would.
I’d be dead within the week, but I’d die so, so happy.
Nutella ganache is chocolatey and dark and creamy and hazelnutty, and ohmahlordie you really just need to go make it now.
You’ll probably just want to grab a spoon and eat it straight from the pyrex measuring cup. That’s cool.
But if you have some leftover, put it on the cupcakes. Trust me.
Banana cupcakes and Nutella ganache are made for each other! Meant to be together. These things have the chemistry of the Golden Girls.
The cupcakes, warm from the oven, are simple and sturdy and a little sultry from the honey. Plain, they make a great snack. Smeared with peanut butter or cream cheese, they’re a perfectly acceptable breakfast.
But with warm nutella ganache dripping down its sides, these cupcakes are all dessert. Dark, sweet, elegant dessert.
These cupcakes can be whipped up in about 20 minutes and they only dirty up 1 bowl. And the ganache? 5 minutes.
To frost these, you take a spoon a drizzle the warm ganache over the cupcakes until it just begins to trickle down the sides like lovely Nutella icicles. Frosting a dozen of these babies takes about 5 minutes.
Which means you can have these cupcakes made, cooled, and frosted in under an hour.
Which also means this might be the most dangerous recipe in your collection.
Ideally, we’d all be good and follow the rules and wait until the ganache has cooled and thickened on the cupcake before digging in. But let’s be real. That’s not happening. Besides, that’s why they make napkins.
Honey Banana Cupcakes with Nutella Ganache
Ingredients
For the bananas:
For the ganache:
Instructions
For the bananas:
For the nutella ganache:
I could LIVE in that bowl of nutella ganache, oh me oh my. These are gorgeous and with the PB/Banana. Is this heaven?
I know, right?! I could swim in this stuff.
Is chocolate ganache iv a possibility? Sign me up!
I’m working on a patent now. 😉
AH-MAZING. I can only imagine how freaking good these are, and that Nutella icing!! /dead.
Haha, a nutella ganache IV? I think you’re onto something :p. This looks SO good!!
I’ll go ga-ga for these, too!!!
I am such a sucker for drippy ganache!!
Soooo tempting! Any way you can poof me a dozen? 🙂 Pinning!
Oh how I wish I could!
I just made these and they are freaking amazing. I have to be honest this is an incredible banana bread recipe. The ganache just sets it over the top. I did make a change- I only had 1 stick of butter left and it’s still 4 days till grocery day. I would regret using all my butter at once lol. So I subbed in a 1/4 cup of Greek Gods Honey Yogurt for half the butter (which is the best yogurt EVER) I will make them the right way next time, just to see which is better, and may make them with only honey yogurt one time….because they are goooood!
Great! I am so glad you liked them! Thanks for sharing the tip about the yogurt. I’m going to have to look for that kind in my store!