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Egg Cartons and Coconut Cupcakes

Mini Coconut Cupcakes

Since we are kicking off Easter this week we thought we’d share a fun way to serve cupcakes. Egg cartons make the perfect container for presenting and transporting mini cupcakes.There are many ways to personalize this type of presentation. We used an alphabet stamp, but you could also tie a ribbon and add a tag. The possibilities for creativity are endless!

Egg Carton Cupcakes | Handmade Mood

These cupcakes are amazingly moist, and you can go with either a hint of coconut flavor, or full on coconut if you decide to use the coconut flavoring (I got mine from King Arthur Flour).

Coconut Cupcakes

You may be wondering where to go for unused egg cartons. You can get a regular cartons that hold 12 from Amazon (also listed in the Shop) , but Crate and Barrel also sells some adorable kits if you want to do less work for your cuteness! Crate and Barrel is more expensive, but there’s less work for you. If you love to get creative, go for the plain cartons and decorate!

Coconut Mini Cupcakes

One more helpful hint: For super cute cupcake presentation, remove the liners when the cupcakes are cool and add new liners. You’re using twice as many liners, but it makes it less messy for the person eating the cupcake and there are no baked on bits of cupcake on the liner.

* Photos by Candice Stringham

Coconut Cream Cupcakes

Adapted from The Modern Baker, by Nick Malgieri

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 10 oz can coconut milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tsp coconut flavoring (optional)
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 Tbsp. milk
  • 1 tsp coconut flavor

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350º
  2. Combine the flour, the sugar, the baking powder, and salt in a bowl and stir well to mix.
  3. Put the coconut milk and vanilla in a large bowl, and whisk.  Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
  4. You can leave it just like this, but if you want a bit more coconut flavor you can add the coconut flavor here.
  5. Bake in lined mini muffin tins for 9 minutes.
  6. While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting.
  7. Beat together the powdered sugar, butter, milk and flavoring. If it’s too thick, you can add more milk, 1 teaspoon at a time. You can also add color if you want.
  8. Pipe or spread the frosting on the cooled cupcakes.
  9. This recipe makes 60 mini cupcakes.

 

Egg Cartons and Coconut Cupcakes
Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: Sarah
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 20 mins
Serves: 20
Coconut Cream Cupcakes Adapted from The Modern Baker , by Nick Malgieri
Ingredients
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 10 oz can coconut milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tsp coconut flavoring (optional)
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 Tbsp. milk
  • 1 tsp coconut flavor
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350º
  2. Combine the flour, the sugar, the baking powder, and salt in a bowl and stir well to mix.
  3. Put the coconut milk and vanilla in a large bowl, and whisk. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
  4. You can leave it just like this, but if you want a bit more coconut flavor you can add the coconut flavor here.
  5. Bake in lined mini muffin tins for 9 minutes.
  6. While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting.
  7. Beat together the powdered sugar, butter, milk and flavoring. If it’s too thick, you can add more milk, 1 teaspoon at a time. You can also add color if you want.
  8. Pipe or spread the frosting on the cooled cupcakes.
  9. This recipe makes 60 mini cupcakes
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About Sarah Roberts

Sarah is a mom of six and living an adventure every day in Alaska with her engineer husband. Follow the #RobertsAlaskaAdventure on IG to see moose, snow, and more!

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Comments

  1. Amber @ Apples to Applique says

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    How cute! The cupcakes look/sound delicious. Thanks for the reference on where to buy unused egg cartons, too! I would have never thought of that, but the mini cupcakes look adorable packed in there.

  2. Julie says

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    How cute!! I love the idea of using the egg cartons for mini cupcakes!

  3. Cris of Kiss My Tulle says

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    SO cute!

  4. Skye Kilaen says

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    Fabulous. Pinned!

  5. Taylor @ Pink Heels Pink Truck says

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    What a cute way to display or give as gifts! And the cupcakes sound so yummy!

  6. Caden says

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    Those are so pretty!!

  7. Jessica says

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    Those look amazing! And such a cute presentation.

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