Banana Bread Cupcakes

What do you do with a bunch of overly ripe bananas?  Banana bread of course!  Or in my case, banana bread cupcakes!  These cupcakes were inspired by nothing more than a bunch of bananas sitting on my counter.  I added some chocolate chips for a little extra sweetness, but all in all they are pretty simple little cakes!
   
Banana Bread Cupcakes
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 T cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 ripe bananas, mashed
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips


Frosting:
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
3-4 cups powdered sugar
1 T heavy whipping cream


1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with cupcake liners.
2.  In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
3.  In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
4.  Add eggs, vanilla, and bananas to creamed mixture and mix until combined.
5.  Fold in chocolate chips.
6.  Fill liners 3/4 of the way full with batter, and bake for 16-18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
7.  Let stand for 5 minutes before removing from pans.
8.  Cool completely on wire rack.
9.  To make frosting:  beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy; add cinnamon, vanilla, powdered sugar, and whipping cream.  Mix until frosting reaches desired piping consistency.
10.  Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.