I baked up these delicious cupcakes yesterday for my baby daughters birthday party and they were so good i doubt anyone could tell they were even Vegan

I hope you will enjoy them, they are really easy to make, absolutely no skill required.
It makes about 6-7 cupcakes but you can multiply easily for more.

Preheat oven to 170 degrees centigrade/ 330 fahrenheit

For the cupcake

120g Self Raising flour
70g castor sugar
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
120g vegan mayonnaise
1 large or 2 small bananas, mashed up.
1 tsp Coffee extract
(optional) some Vegan chocolate chips (3 per cupcake)

For the icing

80g vegan margarine
250g icing sugar
1tbsp Coffee Extract
a touch of Soya Milk

Cupcake Method

Start by mixing the dry ingredients together (flour, sugar and soda)
In a separate bowl mix the banana, the vegan mayo and the extract together.
Now add the dry ingredients to the wet and use a spoon to stir until it is mixed together and no more. No special techniques or tricks to this, just stir until mixed.
Do not keep stirring this as you will take the air out and it will create a dense cupcake.

put some cupcake cases to a muffin tray and fill them with the mix to about 3/4 full.
At this point you can pop in some chocolate drops and push them inside the batter in your cupcake cases 2 or 3 is enough, just adds an extra dimension to them.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.

Icing Method

In a mixing bowl, add the vegan margarine, the coffee extract and just a drizzle of soya milk. Add the icing sugar bit at a time, you may not need the full 250g. Just keep adding and whisking until it forms nice, stiff(ish) peaks. Personally i prefer it if it's not too rock hard as it just gets really sweet.

Empty the icing into a piping bag and pipe over the cupcakes (make sure they are cooled first) or just use a spoon and smear it if you're not going to pro!

Apologies for the sloppy icing, I'd left my piping nozzle at work. I garnished with a little ground almond and coffee granules but you can use whatever you prefer.

Vegan Coffee and Banana Cupcakes