Raspberry Coconut Cupcakes
- For the cupcakes:
- 2 cups flour
- 1-1/2 tsp. CALUMET Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- For the frosting and topping:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 4 oz. PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Raspberry Flavor Gelatin
- 1 Tbsp. half-and-half
- 1/3 cup BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut
- For the Cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350F and line two cupcake pans with 18 cupcake liners.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer (or a large bowl with a handheld mixer) beat oil and sugar until smooth, followed by the eggs, one at a time, beating each egg into the mixture well before adding the next one.
- Beat in the vanilla.
- Alternately stir the flour mixture and the milk into the sugar mixture (Start with 1/3 of the flour mixture, stir, add 1/2 the milk, stir, repeat) until everything is mixed and a smooth batter has formed.
- Fill the prepared cupcake-lined cavities 3/4 way full with batter and bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes.
- A toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake should come out clean.
- Let cool in pan for a few minutes before carefully removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- For the frosting and topping: Beat bucrtter and cream cheese for a full three minutes until pale and fluffy, then slowly beat in powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until a thick frosting comes together.
- Beat in gelatin mix, followed by the half and half.
- Pipe or frost cupcakes with the raspberry cream cheese frosting.
- Sprinkle shredded coconut over tops of cupcakes, and serve!
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Taken from www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/raspberry-coconut-cupcakes-177536.aspx (may not work)