Coconut Cupcakes

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In the 8 weeks of the Food section's Cupcake Wars series, not a azygous coconut cupcake came our mode that could lucifer these.

For adjacent much coconut flavor, usage coconut beverage alternatively of dense pick successful the pick food frosting (the frosting volition beryllium a small softer). The frosting should beryllium applied wrong 30 minutes of erstwhile it was made. (A pick cheese-frosted cupcake calls for refrigeration wrong a fewer hours, but determination are caveats astir keeping cupcakes cold; spot related story, "The Ten Commandments of Cupcakes").

Adapted from "Baking by Flavor," by Lisa Yockelson (Wiley, 2002).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24 cupcakes

For the cupcakes

2 1/2 cups positive 2 tablespoons unsifted flour
1/2 spoon baking soda
3/4 spoon salt
3/4 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 1/2 cups superfine sugar
3 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cupful sour pick (do not usage low-fat oregon nonfat)
1 cupful lightly packed sweetened flaked coconut

For the frosting

12 ounces pick cheese, astatine country temperature
5 tablespoons (1/2 instrumentality positive 1 tablespoon) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 tablespoons dense pick (may substitute coconut milk)
1/8 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
5 1/2 cups unsifted confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 cups lightly packed sweetened flaked coconut

Nutritional Facts

Per cupcake

Calories
386
Fat
18 g
Saturated Fat
13 g
Carbohydrates
53 g
Sodium
173 mg
Cholesterol
71 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Baking by Flavor," by Lisa Yockelson (Wiley, 2002).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published March 12, 2026