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Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Oct 27, 2021
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Love coconut? Cupcakes with a triple blast of coconut bring you to the tropics.

Double-Coconut Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 35 min
  • Total 1 hr 45 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 10
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Ingredients

Cupcakes

Coconut Cream Frosting

  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon coconut extract
  • 1 to 3 tablespoons milk

Garnish

  • 1 cup flaked coconut, toasted

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
  • Step 
    2
    In medium bowl, stir 2 cups coconut and the condensed milk; set aside.
  • Step 
    3
    Make cake batter as directed on box. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (two-thirds full). Top each with about 1 heaping teaspoonful coconut mixture.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 5 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Step 
    5
    In medium bowl, beat powdered sugar, butter and salt with spoon or with electric mixer on low speed until well blended. Beat in coconut extract and 1 tablespoon of the milk. Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. Immediately frost cupcakes. Dip tops of cupcakes into toasted coconut. Store loosely covered.

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