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    Home > Recipes > Cakes + Cupcakes

    Coconut Cupcakes Fluffy Frosting

    Published: Apr 1, 2022 | Updated: May 22, 2022

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    These Coconut Cupcakes with Fluffy White Frosting are soft, tender and light. The batter is flavored naturally with coconut milk and toasted coconut. Topped with a pillow of meringue frosting! To toast or not to toast is the only question!

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    Coconut Cupcakes Fluffy White Frosting Crumb

    I’ve topped these Coconut Cupcake cuties with a Fluffy White Frosting, which is quotidian way of saying an Italian Meringue Frosting. If you are more comfortable with Swiss meringue, they would also be amazing with my Marshmallow Frosting!

    Coconut Cupcakes Fluffy White Frosting Peeled Wrapper

    Fill with caramel, vanilla pudding, lemon curd or leave them unstuffed. The cake is light and fluffy and a bright white! Folding the egg whites into the batter gives them extra lightness and also keeps them pearly white.

    Coconut Cupcakes Fluffy White Frosting Sideview

    Not My First Coconut Cupcake with Fluffy Frosting Rodeo

    Yes, you caught me. I have a thing for cupcakes, and recipe development! This recipe is just my latest rendition of playing with all the wonders of coconut cake and finding the fluffiest and lightest version I could possibly make. However, I would still cast absolutely no shade on my oldies but goodies Lemon Coconut Cupcakes with Italian Meringue Buttercream.

    Bitten Frosted Dessert

    Remember how I said you could stuff these with lemon curd? You pair that happy-inducing lemon with a generous dose of coconut, and you have yourself a mini tropical vacay right there in your kitchen no matter how long March insists on being cold here in New York City. Sit back, relax, and bite into a cloud of coconut-y goodness. #yourewelcome

    Group of Frosted Desserts

    Also, just a side note, I used the coconut milk that comes in a carton at the grocery store. It is not that super thick, incredibly rich coconut milk that you get in the can. The coconut milk should be the consistency of whole milk: if yours is super thick, thin it out with some water.

    Solo Frosted Dessert

    Coconut Cupcakes

    Chef Lindsey
    These Coconut Cupcakes with Fluffy White Frosting are soft, tender and light. The batter is flavored naturally with coconut milk and toasted coconut. Topped with a pillow of meringue frosting! To toast or not to toast is the only question!
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    Prep Time 35 minutes
    Cook Time 18 minutes
    Total Time 1 hour
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 9 people
    Calories 476 kcal

    Ingredients
     

    • 1¾ cups Cake flour
    • 3 teaspoons Cornstarch
    • 1 ½ teaspoons Baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon Salt
    • ½ cup Butter (soft and pliable)
    • 1 ¼ cups Sugar
    • 4 Egg Whites
    • ¼ cup Sugar (for the meringue )
    • Pinch Cream of tartar
    • 13 tablespoons Coconut Milk
    • 6 ½ tablespoons Sweetened Coconut (toasted )
    • Fluffy White Frosting

    You know you want it all homemade:

      Fluffy White Frosting Recipe

        US Customary - Metric

        Instructions
         

        • Preheat oven to 325°F. Line 18 cupcake tins with liners.
        • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread the coconut on the sheet in an even layer. Toast in the preheated oven, mixing the coconut frequently to help it brown evenly. Remove and allow to cool.
        • Sift together cake flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt. Set aside.
        • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, begin whisking the egg whites on medium low with the cream of tartar. Once the whites become frothy, begin adding the smaller portion of sugar by the teaspoon.
        • Turn up the mixer to high and beat until stiff peaks form. Be careful not to over whip or they will be difficult to incorporate into the batter and, thus, defeat the purpose!
        • Remove meringue from the mixer bowl and transfer to a clean bowl (or switch to a second mixer bowl if you have one! Lucky!)
        • Don’t stress about any meringue that remains behind. Add the butter and sugar to the bowl. Switch to the paddle attachment and cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This will take at least 5 minutes depending on your mixer. It will also depend on how soft your butter was before mixing. The softer, the faster.
        • With the mixer on low, alternately add the flour mixture and the coconut milk. I never allow the flour mixture to mix in completely before adding the next round. This helps prevent overmixing.
        • Remove the mixer bowl from the machine, scrape down the paddle attachment. Fold in any remaining dry ingredients.
        • Take about ¼ of the meringue and aggressively fold it into the batter. This is called “sacrificing” because you are sacrificing the aeration in the meringue to loosen the batter. Fold in the remaining meringue in 2-3 additions; being careful not to over fold.
        • Once the meringue is completely incorporated into the batter, fold in the toasted coconut. I used sweetened, but you don’t have to.
        • Portion between the lined cupcake tins. I used a medium ice cream scoop but a spoon works too! They should be about ¾ full. Any more and they will muffin top over the sides! Trust me, I learned that the hard way!
        • Bake in preheated oven for 14-18 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick comes out from the center with only clinging crumbs.
        • Remove from tin to cool completely.
        • Fill, frost and enjoy!

        Notes

        Yield: 18 Cupcakes
        Keyword coconut cupcake, coconut cupcake with white frosting, italian meringue frosting
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