Choc-Mint Coconut Cupcakes are the perfect combination of two of our favourite ingredients - chocolate and mint. Sure to delight this St Patrick's Day.
Love the mint-choc combo? Check out these recipes - Raw Peanut Butter Mint Chocolate, Peppermint Chocolate Mud Cake or Chocolate Mint Cookies (or type 'mint' in the search bar).
Top of the morning/afternoon to you! I love St Patrick's Day. Not because I'm Irish (although you would think so with a name like Kelly) but because I love green.
Every day is like St Patrick's Day in my house from our green couch to my little green bunny sitting on the side table for Easter.
I can't let a 'Day' go by without making some sort of food to honor the occasion and so peppermint cream chocolate cupcakes had to be baked.
I used our Easy Claissc Chocolate Cupcake recipe for the cakes and topped them with a little bit of green coconut and was quite impressed with the chocolate, coconut and peppermint combination.
How To Colour Coconut for Choc-Mint Coconut Cupcakes
Step 1 - To colour the coconut, pour some coconut into a bowl.
Step 2 - Add a few drops of food colouring and very carefully mix it through until it's well distributed. Another trick is to put the coconut in a zip lock bag, add the colour, seal and shake the bag.
Green coconut works well for grass in cake decorating too for something like our Hole in One Golf Cake.
DIY Icing Piping Bags
If you don't have a piping bag or any disposables then in a pinch you can use ziplock bags. You have to be very careful not to squeeze them too hard or they will explode. Make sure you're using soft Buttercream Icing.
Step 1 - Snip the corners off your zip lock bags and insert the icing tips.
Step 2 - Fill with icing.
I mixed it up a little bit and made half the cupcakes in white cases and the other half in green. I personally think the green case/white icing combo worked the best. I used a round tip for the icing.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 tablespoon butter
- a few drops of peppermint essence
- milk a few tablespoon but add it to get to the right consistency
Instructions
- Beat the butter with an electric mixer until it is fluffy.
- Beat in the peppermint essence.
- Add the icing sugar a little at a time and continue to beat.
- If the icing gets too thick, add a little milk to get it to the right consistency.
- To make it nice and white, just keep beating. It will get whiter and whiter.
bhavani/ameanderingmango says
Mint-Chocolate-Coconut - all my favourites in one delicious looking cupcake - amazing! Thanks for sharing
Claire says
It's a pretty good combination isn't it?!
The Café Sucré Farine says
I can't believe you're baking on your shower day Claire, You are so..... funny, just don't tell me that you made the treats for the shower too! Hope you had a lovely, lovely day!
Claire says
I have a slight addiction. I also woke up at 5am on the day and decided I needed to give everyone a little bag of fresh cookies to thank them.