Pina colada cupcakes
Rum, pineapple and coconut in a cupcake! Taste even better if served with the real thing.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 300g flour
- 230g soft butter
- 220g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 235ml milk
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 40ml dark rum
- 140g of pineapple, cut into small pieces
- Icing
- 230g soft butter
- 115ml milk
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 580g icing sugar
- 100g of desiccated coconut + more for sprinkling
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:50min
- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Line a muffin tin with paper cases.
- Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl. Combine the milk and rum in a measuring jug.
- In a large bowl, mix the butter with an electric mixer till creamy. Gradually add the sugar and continue beating for 3 mins. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture in thirds, alternating with the milk mixture.
- Place a few pineapple pieces in each muffin case, and fill 2/3 full with the cake mixture. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
- To make the icing: With an electric mixer, beat the butter, milk, vanilla and 1/2 of the icing sugar on medium speed for 3 to 5 mins. Gradually add remaining sugar, still beating. Continue beating for 2 minutes, then stir in the coconut.
- Ice the cupcakes after they've cooled completely, and sprinkle with additional coconut for decoration.
How to ice cupcakes
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(10)
Reviews in English (3)
This recipe is delicious and earned 19 out of 20 points in the WI cooperative section of the Gower show 2011. I altered the recipe slightly by using coconut milk and a dash of Malibu in place of milk for the butter cream and pineapple juice in place of milk in the main cake recipe. I decorated the cake with a small slice of pineapple a cocktail cherry and a cocktail umbrella to mimic an actual Pina colada drink. A huge success!!! - 25 Sep 2011
Love these cupcakes, seem to run out of the kitchen! - 20 Jan 2011
This recipe is perfect in every way. Came out Light and Fluffy. one point though is i used muffin cases and mixed a batch for 12, but they produced about 15 muffin sized cupcakes. Can't complain. - 20 Nov 2012