Banana Buttermilk Cupcakes (1969)

• 2/3 cup soft butter
• 1-2/3 cups sugar, sifted
• 2-1/4 cups cake flour, sifted
• 1-1/4 tspns baking powder
• 1-1/4 tspns baking soda
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup mashed bananas 
• Vanilla frosting ( see below)

Cream butter and sugar in electric mixer until fluffy and light in color. Meanwhile, sift dry ingredients together. 

Add 1 egg at a time to the butter mixture, beating well each time. Add sifted ingredients alternately with buttermilk, beating well each time.  Add bananas gradually and beat until smooth.

Line cupcake pans with fluted paper cupcake liners, and fill almost to the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until golden. Cook, then frost with vanilla frosting.

Vanilla Frosting

• 2 tbspns soft butter
• 3 tbspns hot milk
• 2-1/4 powdered sugar, sifted
• 1 tspn vanilla

Mix with electric beater until smooth. Top each cupcake with a half a walnut if you like.

More "Lost" Banana Recipes

Banana Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake (1973)

Banana Fritters with Lemon (1946)

(Or-rigin - "Peanuts Cook Book" cartoons by Charles Schulz, recipes by June Dutton. Published by Cider Mill Press, 1969.)