Friday 11 November 2011

Coconut Cupcakes

The cupcakes I made specially for Eid Ul Azha :). It was my first cupcake frosting trial though it wasn't very perfect,but it was good enough.






INGREDIENTS:
  • 1/4 cup margarine
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon white vinegar
  • 1/4 cup apple sauce (for the recipe follow the link here)
  • 3/4 cup coconut milk
  • 1 and 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup coconut flakes

PROCEDURE:
  • Cream together margarine and sugar with a beater.
  • Add vanilla extract, vinegar apple sauce and coconut milk and beat all the ingredients well.
  • Take the flour in a separate bowl and add into it salt, baking powder and the coconut flakes.Whisk all the dry ingredients well.
  • Now add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix them well. Don't overmix it.
  • Bake at 350 F for 20-25 minutes. Makes about 12.

FROSTING:
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 and 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoon coconut milk 
Beat the butter and add slowly the sugar to it. keep beating the butter and sugar till creamy and frothy. Mix into it the coconut milk

Frost the cupcakes with the icing when they have cooled down at room temperature. Sprinkle colored coconut flakes on the icing :) 

Serve with tea or coffee :). enjoy :)



The muffin tray with muffin liners :D


The kitchen mess while baking :-/



Here we are with coconut cupcake batter in the muffin liners :)


In the oven to bake :)


Oven hot cupcakes :)


Cupcakes ready to frost :)


Here we are with the frosted coconut cupcakes with colored coconut sprinkles :)


ready for tea party :D 


Enjoy :)






Fill in the blanks friday

Fill in the blanks, Friday; 11-11-11 :)



1.   My favorite new blog of the moment is  My life, in photos (mostly.)

2.   Something I am thankful for is  the borrowed novels :P   .

3.  Something that made me laugh this week was Eid Ul Azha episode of BULBULAY; it was hilarious :D

4. An item that is currently on my wish list is   a new handbag :P  .

5.  I am excited about   getting my appointment letter as soon as possible because I'm tired waiting for it now.

6.  If I were a color I would be    white; its peaceful and it has 7 colors in it :) .

7.  My favorite way to spend a chilly fall day is by    sitting down in the blanket and read some book or watch a movie .