For Easter, I decided to make carrot and coconut cupcakes for my family and friends. The carrot cupcakes were made with a delicious Alton Brown recipe from my new baking book: I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking. The cream cheese icing on these was particularly amazing.
The coconut cupcakes were made with a combination of 2 family recipes. I used my grandmother's recipe for 7-minute frosting and freshly grated coconut. For those of you that have never done the whole 'breaking into a coconut' thing...it isn't for the faint-hearted. It is a much more difficult and time-consuming process than the Food Network chefs would lead us to believe. But, I have to say, as someone who doesn't particularly care for the taste of coconut, these were quite good. So I have to think that the fresh coconut made all the difference.
So after all the baking and icing was finished, I packed my cupcakes up in my new carrier. This is by far the best purchase I have made in a while. It holds 36 cupcakes and each one has it's own shallow ring to hold the cupcake in place but also allow you to easily take it out (without getting icing all over your fingers). You can find it here at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I bought the clear one, but it also comes in pink, green, yellow, and blue.
The coconut cupcakes were made with a combination of 2 family recipes. I used my grandmother's recipe for 7-minute frosting and freshly grated coconut. For those of you that have never done the whole 'breaking into a coconut' thing...it isn't for the faint-hearted. It is a much more difficult and time-consuming process than the Food Network chefs would lead us to believe. But, I have to say, as someone who doesn't particularly care for the taste of coconut, these were quite good. So I have to think that the fresh coconut made all the difference.
So after all the baking and icing was finished, I packed my cupcakes up in my new carrier. This is by far the best purchase I have made in a while. It holds 36 cupcakes and each one has it's own shallow ring to hold the cupcake in place but also allow you to easily take it out (without getting icing all over your fingers). You can find it here at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I bought the clear one, but it also comes in pink, green, yellow, and blue.
2 comments:
Love the post... even if you accidentally put your hubby's name in the book title! i totally want that cupcake carrier!
oops! haha
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