Coconut Cupcakes with Seven-Minute Frosting and Coconut Flakes

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Ingredients

  • 1.75 cup(s) all-purpose flour
  • 2.00 teaspoon(s) baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
  • 1/2 cup(s) (packed) sweetened shredded coconut
  • 6.00 ounce(s) (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1.3333 cup(s) sugar
  • 2.00 large eggs
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 3/4 cup(s) unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1.50 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract
  • Seven -Minute Frosting
  • 1.3333 cup(s) large-flake unsweetened coconut

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk dry ingredients, including the sweetened coconut, in a large bowl. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.

Reduce speed to low. Mix coconut milk and vanilla in a bowl. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with coconut-milk mixture and ending with dry ingredients. Scrape sides of bowl. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full.

Bake cupcakes until testers inserted into centers come out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks.

Once cupcakes are cool, mound Seven-Minute Frosting on tops. Sprinkle with unsweetened coconut. Serve immediately.