Coconut cupcakes with rum chocolate frosting

Hello everyone, I am back with a new cupcake recipe, because the weekend is coming and we need to celebrate it with goodies!

Obviously, I don't need a specific holiday or event to bake cupcakes or even special cakes, I just love to make them and I hope you will enjoy this recipe as much as I did!

Here is what you need:

For the dough:

120 g white chocolate

100 g coconut flakes

120 g butter

120 g sugar

125 g flour

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of baking powder

120 ml coconut milk

For the frosting:

 90 g dark chocolate

75 g butter

2 table spoons of rum essence

50 g powdered sugar

100 ml liquid cream

Ok, first thing's first, you need to melt the white chocolate with the butter on bain-marie while stir it continuously, then you put it aside and let it cool.

In the mean tie, you need to mix the yolks with 60 g out of those 120 g of sugar, then you need to add the white chocolate mix (mine turned brown because I added just a bit of dark chocolate in it too)

Next on, you need to mix the coconut flakes with the flour and baking powder, alternating with the coconut milk. 

In another bowl, you will need to whip the egg whites with the remaining 60 g of sugar and then incorporate it with the rest of the mix.

The dough will not be creamy because of the coconut flakes, so it will have a rough texture, but that is ok.

You need to preheat the oven at 175 C degrees and put the dough in the cupcake forms and let them back for 25 minutes.

This is how they should look like after they are done baking, you can leave them to cool and move on to making the frosting, which is the best part!

You need to melt the dark chocolate with the 75 g of butter, add the rum essence and let it cool.

After this you need to whip it with the liquid cream at a high speed so it can turn into a soft and voluminous cream - I forgot to picture this, I am sorry!

You can then decorate the cupcakes with the frosting and add some colorful decorations as you wish, there are so many option to choose from at the baking counter, from tiny marzipan flowers to silver/golden confetti-like sweets and so on! You only need imagination.

And that is it!

I hope you enjoyed, happy baking and have a lovely weekend!

Goodies Overload

Never been much of a fan of Easter, and I know due to differences in religion, we celebrated in different periods sometimes, but still, Easter is the major holiday of Spring, and even though I eat too much chocolate eggs and so many other foods, it lacks the magic of Christmas. There are no light, snowflakes, carols or mystery. There is just..calm..flowers ( and that is a bonus) and..a relaxed state of mind.

Traditional eggs hand-painted by our local artisans





Chocolate eggs





And some real eggs



Something that resembles a cheesecake



And our traditional ..cozonac, still some kind of cake



Hope you all Romanian readers have a wonderful Easter!

A chocolate in the snow

Greetings from the coldest city in Romania! I'm probably exaggerating, but still.. snow crunches under your feet and your fingers end up frozen in a few minutes. But all in all it's quiet here and I like it.

I found this coat burried in my closet here and I remember how I used to love it, and now I have rejoiced with it. I find it's color so delicious and reminds me of chocolate. Speaking of which, today I ate lots of gingerbread with chocolate on top. Yum!

Oh and I got the brooch from my grandmother the other day. I love it!

Have a lovely week darlings, I know I will :D

Wearing: No name coat, Jennyfer pants, Leonardo boots, thrift scarf and bag, Terranova hat,no name gloves