Let’s start this post off by noting that I was never a fan of coconut. Unless of course it was in the shape of an Almond Joy. But coconut cookies, cakes, anything sprinkled with the waxy, oddly textured stuff was shunned by me. I quickly turned my nose up in disgust and pranced away to play with barbies.
I am reformed! Can I get a hallelujah? I’d like to think that my adult taste buds are finally coming in and I am starting to branch out into different tastes and textures.
These cupcakes have opened up my mind. I must admit that I was a bit hesitant to try one but I sighed in that beautiful aroma and ogled the light, springy cupcake and I could no longer resist. Coconut or not, I was eating one! (After all, I had to even out the batch. Odd numbers bother me. I’m quirky, alright?)
And it was indeed perfect. Soft and springy and fluffy. Warm and delicious. Hints of coconut flavor, but not over-powering. Oh the joy. And that was without the frosting.
Now, the frosting, I wasn’t too crazy about. It had a great texture, but even when I added vanilla extract, it tasted like it was still missing something. It’s a great simply-throw-together type recipe but it needs to be tweaked, flavor wise.
I halved the recipe and yielded 9 cupcakes and halved the frosting as well and had wayyy too much left over. I am no cupcake artist, but I am rather proud of the way these turned out! PRAISE ME!! *imitates Invader Zim*
Now when I am offered a coconut treat, I’ll politely take one with an open mind. And then prance off to play with my barbies 🙂
A great big thank you goes out to Jennifer of Cinema Cupcakes for opening my coco-nutty world 😀
The Whimsical Cupcake 
Very pretty!
Your cupcakes are so pretty! I’m not a huge fan of coconut either. I think 7 minute frosting is really good, but definitely missing the richness of butter.
I agree the cupcakes were outstanding! So glad the coconut flavor didn’t turn you off. Your frosting looks outstanding btw. Like a nice fluffy pillow! Love it.
I’ve been coming around to liking coconut also, and when it’s as scrumptious as your cupcakes, it’s not too difficult! Hearing nothing but raves about this recipe.
These look beautiful! YUM!
The frosting looks perfect! They are beautiful!
Hands down, my most favorite cupcake EVER. We loved these, an am making another half batch today…with two teenage boys and one coconut-loving husband in the house, I got ONE. Maybe today I will get another one! Yours look beautiful, love those wrappers and the play with them!
Beautiful icing job! They look so cute!
They look so pretty! Welcome to the wonderful world of coconut!
OMG, YUM, Indeed! Fabulous looking cupcakes!
I seriously could have written this post – I felt exactly the same way about these. They were so, so, so good!! Your frosting looks lovely – I had fun decorating this week too!
I am so excited that you are a coconut convert! All because of me. 🙂
I liked the frosting, too. I used imitation coconut extract in mine. But I’ve never used pure coconut extract before, so I don’t know if that could have changed the flavor a lot.
See you next month!
The metallic wrappers really really make these simple white cakedy cakes, sparkle! so so nice! ((and i agree, these cakes are deeeevine!))