Super Bowl: Banana-Chocolate Football Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1/4 Cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3 small bananas, mashed (about 1 Cup )
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/8 Teaspoon salt
• 1/3 Cup buttermilk
• 1 Cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate morsels
• Vegetable cooking spray
• 1 (16- ounce ) container vanilla or chocolate frosting

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, banana, and vanilla, beating until blended.
• Stir together flour, soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to banana mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
• Stir in morsels.
• Place paper baking cups in muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter into pans, filling cups two-thirds full.
• Bake for 17 minutes.
• Remove cupcakes from pans immediately, and cool on wire racks.
• Spread with frosting,