Simple Way to Make Pina Colada Cupcakes in 18 Minutes at Home

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pina colada cupcakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pina Colada Cupcakes are a must try dessert! These are soft, moist, fluffy, and brimming with those classic pina colada flavors we all crave! Dip tops of frosted cupcakes in coconut.

Pina Colada Cupcakes is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pina Colada Cupcakes is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pina colada cupcakes using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pina Colada Cupcakes:

1. Take Cupcake
2. Take 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
3. Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
4. Get 1/4 tsp baking soda
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
6. Get 3/4 cup light brown sugar
7. Get 1/4 cup granulated sugar
8. Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
9. Make ready 1 large egg, at room temp
10. Prepare 1/2 cup pineapple juice
11. Take 1/2 cup full fat coconut milk
12. Take 2 tsp vanilla extract
13. Take Frosting
14. Prepare 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temp
15. Get 3 cup powdered sugar
16. Prepare 1/4 cup heavy cream, half-and-half, or coconut milk
17. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
18. Prepare 1/2 tsp coconut extract
19. Get 1 salt to taste

To make them, we topped a moist, fluffy pineapple cake with a creamy coconut buttercream frosting. Sweet piña colada cupcakes filled with pineapple and topped with a light and fluffy cream cheese frosting. There's a little bit of summer in each bite! If you like Piña coladas, and getting caught in the rain (old person musical reference alert!), then you will almost certainly enjoy making ans eating these.

Steps to make Pina Colada Cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Line a 12-count muffin pan with cupcake liners. Set aside.
2. Make the cupcakes: In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt butter in the microwave. Whisk in brown sugar and granulated sugar. Whisk in egg, pineapple juice, coconut milk, and vanilla extract until combined.
3. Slowly mix dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until no lumps remain. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 of the way full. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
4. Make the frosting: In a medium bowl, beat the softened butter on medium speed with an electric or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat for about 3 minutes until smooth and creamy. Turn mixer off and add confectioners' sugar, cream, vanilla, and coconut extracts. Mix on low for 1 minute then increase to high speed and beat for 3-4 full minutes. Add more powdered sugar if frosting is too thin or more cream if frosting is too thick. Add salt if frosting is too sweet (I usually add 1/4 teaspoon). Frost cooled cupcakes. There may be leftover frosting depending how much you use on each cupcake. I used a Wilton #12 piping tip. Decorate cupcakes with coconut, pineapple slices, and/or a cherry.
5. Store cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days and in the refrigerator up to 4.

Piña Colada cupcakes are perfect cupcake versions of the drink - complete with coconut How to Make Piña Colada Cupcakes. To give these cupcakes their signature flavor, you'll start with mixing. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Pina Colada Cupcakes: The first time I made these cupcakes it was for a friend's graduation party. Change is usually a good thing.

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