Coconut & raspberry cupcakes

Coconut & raspberry cupcakes

Adding a little fruit purée to your buttercream frosting gives you a berry flavour and vibrant colour atop your sponges

Difficulty and servings

Easy

MAKES 12-15

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 20 mins

Freezable

FREEZE un-iced

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with deep paper cases or a 15-hole bun tin with cake cases. Tip all the cake ingredients except the raspberries into a bowl and beat for 1-2 mins until light and fluffy. Gently fold in the raspberries.
  2. Divide the mixture between the cases and bake for 18-20 mins (add a couple of extra mins for deep cases), until golden brown and firm to the touch. Leave to cool.
  3. Beat together the icing sugar, butter and raspberry coulis to make a light, fluffy icing. Spoon or pipe onto the cakes and sprinkle with coconut.

PER CUPCAKE (12)

314 kcalories, protein 3.0g, carbohydrate 37.0g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 11.0g, fibre 2.0g, sugar 28.0g, salt 0.4 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012.

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    29 December 2012

    Isa rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very lovely. 1st batch I made, I made using my own made raspberry coulis in the frosting which went down a treat. I'm not a massive frosting fan so skipped the frosting in my 2nd batch, still scrumptious but the frosting definitely pulls it together.

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  • 16 February 2013

    Mihaela commented on this recipe

    Made this recipe today and it was great! Easy to make and delicious. One thing though: the frosting was too sweet for my taste so next time I will reduce the quantity of icing sugar in the frosting.

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  • 28 March 2013

    Andrea rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Gorgeous! I love raspberries and I loved making these cakes and eating them of course! yum yum yum

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  • 13 April 2013

    suchas rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Absolutely delicious! I used frozen raspberries and kept a few to make a coulis to add to the icing.

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  • 23 May 2013

    CubletOfTheCake rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    made these and tasted wonderful, only problem i had was my icing was too thin, but they all went!

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  • 16 June 2013

    LemonMelts rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    These cakes were very nice but the coconut flavour is very subtle. Needed to use far more raspberry coulis than the recipe suggested to get the icing to taste right too.

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  • 18 June 2013

    Bel3152 commented on this recipe

    I've made these a few times and every time they turn out fantastic. I do change them a little I substitute the coconut for almond meal, some times add some lemon zest and make cream cheese icing or lemon cream cheese icing to go with them. I've had heaps of compliments in them and they are so easy! I love that you just chuck it all in.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

MAKES 12-15

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 20 mins

Freezable

FREEZE un-iced

Ingredients

  • 175g self-raising flour
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 50g desiccated coconut
  • 140g butter , softened
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • 140g raspberries , fresh or frozen

FOR THE FROSTING

  • 280g icing sugar
  • 85g butter , softened
  • 4 tbsp raspberry coulis, from a bottle or fresh
  • a little desiccated or shredded coconut , to decorate
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PER CUPCAKE (12)

314 kcalories, protein 3.0g, carbohydrate 37.0g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 11.0g, fibre 2.0g, sugar 28.0g, salt 0.4 g

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