Caramelized Plantain Cupcakes with a Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Cheese Frosting

Recipe courtesy Kerstin Sinkevicius

Show: Ultimate Recipe ShowdownEpisode: Ultimate Recipe Showdown: Cakes & Desserts, Season 3

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  • on September 18, 2011

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    I only made the frosting, but it was a disappointment. You can't taste the cream cheese. It just tastes like Nutella. Nutella is awesome, but I should've just put a scoop of nutella on my cupcakes. If it's supposed to be "Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Cheese Frosting," then that's what it should taste like. This recipe just further proves my point that people on Cupcake Wars cannot bake at all.

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  • on June 03, 2011

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    I just did not have good luck with this recipie. The cupcake was not very sweet and it just didnt work well for me. Everyone thought they were missing something.

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  • on November 28, 2010

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    It's not sweet and the end result resembles a muffin more than a cupcake. I wish the sweet plantain flavor was stronger. I've made these cupcakes 2x the first time I thought that maybe my plantains were not black enough. The second time I used black soft plantains and after being caramelized I noticed the plantain mush was different than the first time with a more mushy consistency. But the flavor of the plantains is still not what I was looking for. In general people liked them. The frosting is simple and tasty.

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  • on August 27, 2010

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    Only made the frosting because my hubby requested a chocolate cream cheese frosting and he didn't want the chocolate buttercream I made last year (thankfully because it took half a day to make!. This was an absolutely delish frosting in no time at all- yummy!

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  • on April 24, 2010

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    made these for a work function. eveyone liked, but rally loked the frosting the best!

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