California Stormy Night with Banana Cupcakes

On this stormy night*, I baked Banana-Walnut Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting. I have been baking my way through Martha Stewart's 100 Cupcakes book and this I believe is cupcake #6. I have a long way to go. M-Stew's recipe is actually Banana Pecan cupcakes, but I didn't have pecans and I didn't want to make caramel butter frosting.

I think this may be my favorite cupcake so far, although they are a lot like muffins. I don't know when M-Stew came up with these recipes, but I like to think she did them when she was in the slammer. White collar slammer where I'm sure she made someone her bitch.

Here's the recipe for M-Stew's Banana Pecan Cupcakes with Buttercream Caramel Frosting.
(I substituted a couple of things because it's what I had on hand. Instead of pecan, I used walnuts, instead of buttermilk I used heavy whipping cream, instead of caramel frosting I made vanilla).

*By the way, when I say storm, I mean "California storm." No snow, no typhoons or hurricanes. Just a lot of rain and some wind.