Coconut Cupcakes with Creamy Coconut Frosting

Name: Thermomix recipe: Coconut Cupcakes with Creamy Coconut Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Ingredients: 350 Grams golden caster sugar; 200 Grams unsalted butter cubed; 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste; 1 Teaspoon almond essence; 240 Grams coconut cream; 4 eggs; 430 Grams flour; 1 Teaspoon each baking powder and soda; 1 Pinch pink salt flakes; 35 Grams plain flour; 220 Grams coconut cream; 150 Grams icing sugar; 150 Grams unsalted butter cubed; 30 Grams vanilla bean paste (It’s a lot, but go with it.)

Makes 18 cupcakes Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Rated: Print

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Need

Cupcakes
350 Grams golden caster sugar
200 Grams unsalted butter cubed BUY
1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
1 Teaspoon almond essence
240 Grams coconut cream Recipe
4 eggs
430 Grams flour
1 Teaspoon each baking powder and soda
1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
Frosting
35 Grams plain flour
220 Grams coconut cream Recipe
150 Grams icing sugar
150 Grams unsalted butter cubed BUY
30 Grams vanilla bean paste (It’s a lot, but go with it.) BUY

Do

1: To make Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line two 12 hole muffin trays with paper or silicone molds. Set aside.
2: Place sugar into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10.
3: Add butter and chop 10 sec/speed 4.
4: Add all remaining cupcake ingredients except flour and blend 10 sec/speed 7.
5: Add flour and incorporate 20 sec/Interval. Divide between prepared cases.
6: Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool before piping on frosting.
7: To make Frosting: Place flour and coconut cream into Thermomix bowl and blend 5 sec/speed 6.
8: Scrape down sides of bowl and cook 15 min/80ºC/speed 3-4.
9: Scrape into separate bowl and cover with plastic wrap, pushing wrap down onto surface of paste. Refrigerate until completely cold.
10: Place sugar and butter into clean, dry Thermomix bowl and chop 10 sec/speed 7. Aerate 30 sec/Butterfly/speed 3.
11: Add cooked paste, and vanilla, and whip 30 sec/Butterfly/speed 3. Scrape down sides of bowl and repeat if necessary. Frosting should be creamy and white.
12: Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes before icing cupcakes.

Makes approximately 24 cupcakes.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!