Chocolate-Coconut Cupcakes

Name: Chocolate-Coconut Cupcakes
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 58 min
Yield: Makes 18 cupcakes
Ingredients: ½ cup butter, softened; ¾ cup sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon coconut extract or vanilla extract; 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour; ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder; ½ teaspoon baking soda; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk or refrigerated whole milk; 3 cups sweetened flaked coconut, divided; Coconut-Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting; ½ recipe Chocolate Ganache; Garnish: whole or slivered almonds

Nothing could be better than a chocolate cupcake topped with marshmallow frosting, except maybe one topped with marshmallow frosting AND ganache. If you want to pin this, we suggest swirling the ganache to look like spooky spiderwebs.

By Julia Dowling Rutland

Recipe by Coastal Living October 2012

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