Banana cupcakes with chocolate frosting

I made these for a friend with non-egg-eating family. When I was looking for a no-egg recipe, all I came up with were vegan ones. I'd decided I'd go with a vegan recipe, but to replace all the soy products with dairy but I couldn't shake the nagging feeling that mebbe that wasn't the best idea. I finally did another search and found that you can substitute an egg in baking with a myriad of ingredients, like apple sauce, banana and various mixtures containing corn starch, potato starch, arrowroot starch or flax seed powder. As I had an unopened bottle of apple suace in my pantry from my broken-jaw days, I decided to go the apple sauce route. I went with a conventional banana cake recipe but replaced the eggs with apple sauce and upped the baking soda by a little bit. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with the eggs, but the cupcakes came out a little pale (I didn't take any good pictures of naked cupcakes so you'll have to take my word for it). I don't usually save any for myself but since this was my first time baking without eggs, I did put one aside for my breakfast this morning.

The cake was a little denser than I'd have liked, and not quite banana-y enough due to the fact that I bought the bananas too late to allow them to over-ripen fully. Still, it had a pleasing banana flavour, and the density did not cross into glue-y-ness. I'm looking forward to experimenting more with eggless baking. The chocolate frosting went very well with it. I was afraid it would be too chocolatey when I first tried it but the cupcake helped cut down on that.

I played with the frosting some but I have some serious cupcake picture-studying to do. Making cupcakes look cute...I'm apparently less than a neophyte at it. I'm a total n00b.