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Snow-topped Holiday Cupcake Recipe
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Snow-topped Holiday Cupcake Recipe

22 ingredients Makes 8 jumbo frosted cupcakes.Makes about 4 1/2 cups. openrecipes
Snow-topped Holiday Cupcake Recipe

Knee-deep coconut flecked frosting tops over a sour cream coconut cake batter base make these a quintessential holiday cupcake recipe.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1241
Calories
41g
Protein
62g
Fat
128g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Coconut 1/2 cup shredded (40g) 283
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Yogurt 170g plain Greek 100
Cream Cheese 1 oz (28g) 99
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Topping not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons unsifted bleached all-purposed flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups superfine sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup thick, cultured sour cream
  • 1 cup tightly packed sweetened flaked coconut
  • Coconut Cream Frosting (see recipe below), without the addition of the sweetened flaked coconut, for topping the baked cupcakes
  • About 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut, to top the frosted cupcakes
  • Bakeware needed:
  • 8 jumbo muffin/cupcake cups (two pans each holding six individual muffin cups), each cup measuring 4 inches in diameter, 1 3/4 inches deep, with a capacity of about 1 1/8 cups (hs note: I used standard muffin pans. When I filled the cups 2/3 full, I got nice classic cupcakes. When I filled to the to
  • Nonstick cookware spray, for preparing the muffin/cupcake pans
  • 12 ounces (one and one-half 8-ounce packages) cream cheese, softened
  • 5 tablespoons (1/4 stick plus 1 tablespoon) unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • 5 1/2 cups unsifted confectioners' sugar (hs note: I used a bit more)
  • 3/4 cup lightly packed sweetened flaked coconut

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By 101cookbooks · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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