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Home » Dessert » Cupcakes » Coconut Cupcakes and New York Yankees Coconut Cupcakes

Coconut Cupcakes and New York Yankees Coconut Cupcakes

Created: June 18, 2012 Updated: August 24, 2022 by Lyuba Brooke 20 Comments

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Coconut Cupcakes with white frosting and coconut shavings on top

 

Here are the cupcakes that I promised you guys!!
 
Since my hubby was working on Father’s day, I wanted to bring some cupcakes to him at work. I also made extra cupcakes for all the dads working at his restaurant that day. There were only 3-4 dads working that day, so the other employees (who were quick enough) got to have some cupcakes too. 
 
Since my husband is a huge baseball fan and a huge Yankees fan, I thought it would be fun to make his cupcakes, baseball cupcakes. These are the cupcakes that I made them.

NY yankee cupcakes on a white square plate

 

To make the baseball cupcakes, I colored some of the cream cheese frosting blue and I bought red icing. I will confess, the store-bought writing icing was a HUGE mistake. It bled the second I put in on the cupcakes. I should have just taken extra time and colored some frosting in red. Lesson learned!

coconut cupcakes on a plate

Ingredients:

Makes 18 cupcakes

Cupcakes:
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of vegetable oil
3/4 cup of cream of coconut
1 cup of milk
2 1/4 cups of flour
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

goya cream of coconut can with cupcakes on a cooling rack in the background
This is the cream of coconut I like to use.

Frosting:
1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened
10 oz of cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup of cream of coconut
2-3 cups of powdered sugar

*1 cup of coconut flakes,  if making coconut covered cupcakes

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350. Place the cupcake liners in the 12-cup muffin pan.

2. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.

3. Beat the sugar and eggs together, on high speed, until light and fluffy, about 5-7 minutes.

4. With mixer running, drizzle in the oil, then cream of coconut and beat until all well combined.

5. Alternating, beat in dry ingredients and milk. Start and end with dry ingredients.

stand mixer with batter in it

6. Divide the batter between the muffin pan cups. It should fill them all 3/4 of the way.

cupcake batter in a muffin pan

7. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool completely before frosting. Repeat with remaining batter.

cooked cupcakes in a muffin pan

Frosting:
1. Beat the cream cheese and butter, on medium-high speed, until well combined and white.
2. Slowly pour in the cream of coconut, while the mixer s running on medium. Beat until combined.
3. Lower the mixer to low speed and slowly add the sugar. When the sugar is incorporated, set the mixer to medium and beat for 2-3 more minutes, until white and fluffy.

making frosting in a stand mixer

**If you are making baseball cupcakes, separate the frosting in batches and mix in the colors separately. (leaving most of the frosting white)

NY Yankee cupcakes with wrappers on a white plate

4. Frost the cupcakes and decorate. If you are making coconut covered cupcakes, place the coconut flakes into a bowl and dip each cupcake into the coconut flakes.

coconut cupcakes with frosting and coconut flakes on top

Enjoy!!

* I am linking this recipe to   THESE GREAT PARTIES, in my party tab. Why don’t you visit the wonderful hosts and link some of your own projects!?

coconut cupcakes stacked up in a white square plate

 

Lyuba

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I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read more...

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Comments

  1. Rose @ Walnut Acre says

    July 28, 2012 at 12:05 am

    Yummy! I love coconut.

    Reply
  2. Macy says

    June 25, 2012 at 1:02 am

    Thanks for linking up to last week’s Tuesday Confessional link party! You’ve been featured so stop by and grab a brag button!
    http://www.craftyconfessions.com/2012/06/amazing-tuesday-confessional-features.html
    ~Macy @ Crafty Confessions

    Reply
  3. June says

    June 24, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I’m thinkin’ these would be fabulous with some red white and blue coconut sprinkles… served at our BBQ next week! Thanks for the inspiration, Lyuba!

    Reply
  4. Betsy says

    June 23, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    yum.  I love anything coconut.  These are beautiful!

    Reply
  5. Rainey at The Project Table says

    June 23, 2012 at 6:24 am

    I love coconut anything… that looks like a great coconut cake recipe… I saved it, thanks!

    Please stop by my blog if you get a chance and enter my SUMMER TIME GIVE AWAY… Its a $50.00 Gift Certificate for Novica! http://theprojecttable.blogspot.com/2012/06/its-summer-time-giveaway-from-project.html

    Reply
  6. carolyn says

    June 22, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    Just to let you know – your wonderful project was featuredon homework today.  Come on over and agrab a button. As always, thank you so much for linking up your project. Have awonderful weekend! 

    Reply
  7. Heather@French Press says

    June 22, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    amazing! go yanks!

    Reply
  8. Debi Bolocofsky says

    June 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm

     These look so good, I was wondering if you would link it in my Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop.  Here is the link:

    http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/06/natural-aftershave-and-wednesdays.html

    I would love to have anything that you would like to link.
    Sincerely,
    Debi Bolocofsky
    http://www.adornedfromabove.com
    Adorned From Above

    Reply
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Well, hey there!

I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read More.

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