Coconut cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese frosting
Made these cupcakes for my friend’s baby shower. She is expecting a girl so I wanted to make her something pink, hence the strawberry cream cheese frosting. The best part about using strawberries is that you don’t have to add pink dye to make the cream cheese frosting pink. The colour comes naturally from the strawberries. Ingredients for the cupcakes 150g unsalted butter 100g caster sugar 150ml coconut milk 2 eggs 220g self raising flour 1 tsp vanilla essence 20g desiccated coconut Ingredients for the frosting 250g cream cheese (room temperature) 30g unsalted butter (room temperature) 40g icing sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 4 whole strawberries Directions Preparation time: 10-15min Baking time: 15-20min or when the skewer comes out clean Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Prepare a 12 case muffin tin Using a whisk, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Then add in the eggs one at the time and continue to cream. Add in vanilla essence Add in the flour and coconut milk, alternating between the two until a smooth …