Treacle sponge, Banoffee cupcakes and The school bake sale

Yesterday in a fit of frugalness (not overly sure that's a word) I decided that I would use the over ripe bananas in the fruit bowl to make banoffee cupcakes I followed the recipe and on taking them out of the oven was extreamly pleased that my first venture in to banana cupcakes was a success and setting them on the side to cool I went about other tasks.
Returning to them I found to my horror that they had sunk! and not just a little bit either but a lot.

So that was a whole batch in the bin. I remembered reading somewhere that a sunk cake can sometimes be the result of adding to much baking powder i am going to tweet several TV chefs and see if any of them get back to me with a reason as to why my attempt failed miserably and hopefully avoid making the same mistake again today when I try to make another.

I continued with my day making dinner for the children a lovely perfectly baked jacket potato with beans and pizza, this may not seem like an achievement as the pizza was a shop bought frozen one (although I have made my own before and it was lovely) but the fact that i cooked a baked potato and didn't burn it to a crisp or have it come out still semi raw is a first for me! I was asked by the children to make a pudding that was hot and would warm them up so I set about making a treacle sponge.
It was a huge success, being devoured almost straight away and almost to quickly for me to take a photo of.

Tonight I need to finish making the school bake sale cupcakes so I had better get on with it.