Banana Pecan with Chocolate Buttercream and Chopped Pecan Topping...just for us!!!

This morning, I got up really late, and then started doing stuff, like vaccuming, cleaning the kitchen, etc...and then I looked at my leftover buttercream from yesterday's birthday cupcakes, and my old bananas and thought, ooooh, this could be very tasty. And since I hadn't tried a banana cupcake recipe in a while, I thought, I better, because there is just nothing like a good banana nut cupcake...makes you even feel like you're eating something nutritious!!! (Just for you Ro). But it was already 10 o'clock and the little one was still asleep, but for how long?? Then I thought, if I wait, it'll be much harder to do the entire recipe with her screaming next to me right? So I made the cupcakes, she slept, cleaned up after myself, she slept! So all I had to do was add the buttercream!!! Well, I followed the instructions about using buttercream that had been in the fridge overnight, and all I got was sweet butter. Grosssssssss!!!!! So I had to wait till the husband got home to eat, and then remade the buttercream-and added dark chocolate! For those who wonder about the colour-yeah, it seems that the chocolate isn't enough to make the cream go dark-but I think it goes well with these particular cupcakes, I will know for the future that if I want a dark chocolate topping, I will make a ganache! So I learned a few things today-always make the buttercream fresh and even nutritious can be turned into a real dessert! Thanks for looking in!!!