Marble Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing and Coconut
Fancy and delicious these marble cupcakes with chocolate icing and coconut are a perfect chocolate and vanilla combo! The recipe makes 2 dozen standard size cupcakes, perfect for a crowd.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 40 mins
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups full milk
For the Chocolate Marble
- Reserve approx. 1 cup of the vanilla batter
- 2 Tablespoons full milk
- 2 Tablespoons sifted cocoa powder
Cupcake Topping
- 1 cup coconut (sweetened or unsweetened, I used unsweetened)
- Chocolate icing, see recipe below
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ËšF. Line 2 cupcake tins with liners and set aside.
- In a stand mixer beat butter, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and continue to beat, add vanilla.
- In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- Alternate flour mixture with milk to butter mixture, beating on a low speed just until incorporated.
- Reserve approx. 1 cup of the batter and set aside. Using an ice-cream scoop, evenly fill the cupcake liners – making 24 cupcakes.
- To make your chocolate batter – In a small bowl, take your reserved cup of batter and mix 2 tablespoons of milk and 2 tablespoons sifted cocoa powder together. Evenly distribute chocolate batter on top of each vanilla cupcake. Using a flat butter knife, swirl the chocolate batter into the vanilla batter to create a marble effect. Try not to stir the batter, you want to cut the chocolate into the vanilla.
- Bake pans one at a time in the centre of the oven for approx. 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean (don’t overbake).
- Make chocolate icing. When cupcakes have cooled ice cupcakes with a generous amount of icing and roll tops of cupcakes into coconut.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake without icing
- Calories: 183
- Sugar: 15.6g
- Sodium: 81mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 26.4g
- Fiber: 0.8g
- Protein: 2.9g
- Cholesterol: 40mg