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Banana Cupcakes

The American Heart Association now recommends limiting trans fats to fewer than 1 percent of your daily calories. This means you should attempt to steer clear of trans-fat heavy weights such as store-bought cakes and cupcakes. Making your own can be fun! If you're looking for totally fat-free cake recipes, check out these fat free cake recipes.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed banana

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar using an electric mixer. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing well.
  3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  4. Add dry ingredients (flour mixture) and bananas to creamed mixture (the egg mixture). Mix well until combined.
  5. Place paper baking cups in muffin tin or lightly coat muffin tin with cooking spray. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full of batter.
  6. Bake 20 to 22 minutes, until golden brown. Remove cupcakes from muffin tin and place on a rack to cool.
  7. Stir in raisins and cooled toasted nuts.
  8. Pour half of the batter into each greased pan. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes.
  9. Remove cakes from the oven. Cool for 10 minutes. Remove from pans to finish cooling. For best taste, let cakes cool a few hours before serving.

Cost Per Recipe: $1.29
Cost Per Serving: $0.11

Serving Size: 1/12 of recipe
Recipe yields 12 servings.

Per serving:

Don't forget to check out our Banana Bread Recipe!

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