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Pink Coconut Snowball Cakes
Yield
10 servings
Total Time
2 hrs 15 mins
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Ingredients
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CUPCAKES
o 3/4 cup butter, softened
o 1 1/2 cups sugar
o 3 large eggs, room temperature
o 2 cups flour
o 1 teaspoon baking powder
o 1 teaspoon baking soda
o 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
o 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
o 1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
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FROSTING
o 1/2 cup butter, softened
o 12 ounces cream cheese, softened
o 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
o 2 cups powdered sugar
o red food coloring
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FOR SNOWBALLS
o 2 1/2 cups flaked coconut
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Instructions
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1. Make the cupcakes:.
2. Heat oven to 350°F; prepare 10 large size muffin tins. I suggest
not using paper liners for this. If you do you will have to
remove them before frosting.
3. Beat butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy,
about five minutes.
4. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
5. Beat well.
6. Sift flour with baking powder and soda.
7. Add 1/4 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, then add
vanilla and 1/3 of the buttermilk.
8. Repeat, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Scrap well
after each addition.
9. Fold in coconut.
10. Pour batter into muffin cups. Bake about 18-20 minutes until
toothpick comes out clean.
11. Cool in tins about 5 minutes. Remove and cool completely. If you
used paper liners, remove the liners.
12. Make the frosting:.
13. Combine butter, cream cheese, vanilla and sugar in a large bowl
and beat until smooth and spreadable. Add a drop of food
coloring and blend to make a light pink frosting.
14. To make the snowballs:.
15. When cupcakes are cool, freeze them on parchment paper about 20
minutes.
16. Spread a thick, even layer of frosting all over each cupcake,
sides and bottom too.
17. Freeze on parchment again for at least 30 minutes, up to 1 day.
18. Spread a second, thick, even layer of frosting all over them.
19. Sprinkle generously with coconut, about 1/4 cup per snowball.
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*Ginny Butterfield
Cranberry Twp, PA
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