Hello sweet friends! I hope you’re having fun preparing for Christmas, baking or otherwise. If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed with preparations, I’ve got an easy, delicious and good-for-you cupcake recipe to share with you, Coconut Cupcakes, garnished with this whimsical little guy. They’re truly easy to make (including the gingerbread man topper, really!), and are a perfect treat for the people in your life who may not normally eat the average decadent cupcake, and also for those who do. I wouldn’t even say anything to your sweet-tooth friends or family, they won’t know that the cupcake is packed with goodness; made with organic coconut oil and organic coconut sugar.

I will tell you right off the bat that this post was sponsored by Grace, but I only work with companies that I know and love. I hope you enjoy learning about and baking with Grace Organic and Natural Coconut Products in this recipe and others! I chose a coconut flavour as I wanted to use the Grace coconut chips (I actually eat them as a snack and love them) in my cupcake, but there’s no need to stick with only coconut flavours. You can easily swap coconut sugar with white sugar, as long as you know that coconut palm sugar has a more-rounded flavor than cane sugar, with distinct caramel and butterscotch notes. It’s best to use in recipes that you could interchange white or brown sugar as it tastes closer to brown sugar as a 1:1 substitute.

A few tips to know for using coconut oil as a butter substitute:

It’s a 1:1 substitute for butter. Use the same way you would butter in a recipe; add coconut oil at the same temperature as the butter. Melted coconut oil should be substituted for melted butter; room temperature coconut oil should be substituted for solid butter.
Store your coconut oil at room temperature. During winter, coconut oil can get hard to mix with its solid state so it can be melted a bit for softness/ease of use in recipe.
Bake the recipe for the same amount of time as you would if butter was used.
Adjust the amount of salt you add in the recipe if you substitute coconut oil for salted butter. A stick of salted butter contains approximately half a teaspoon of table salt.

I hope you have fun baking these! If you make them, please let me know in the comment section or tag me on social media.

Notes

You can find Grace coconut products in the international aisle/Caribbean set at: Metro Food Basics, Sobeys, FreshCo, Wal-Mart, Loblaws, NoFrills, RCSS, Coppa’s fresh market and Highland Farms
Canadian Grace Foods’ site here
United States Grace Foods’ site here
UK Grace Foods’ site here
Belize Grace Foods’ site here

The gingerbread men toppers are gingerbread cookies with royal icing. You can find the cutter here and a similar how-to here.
In the recipe, if you don’t have buttermilk, you can substitute. For each cup of buttermilk substitute one cup of milk with one tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice.
You can find the recipe for Cream Cheese Icing here

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to drop me a line below in the comment section or on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube.

xo,

Marian

Coconut Cupcake Recipe

Name: Coconut Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients: 1/2 lb Grace coconut oil, room temperature (not liquid) (or 1 cup); 12 oz Grace coconut sugar (or 2 cups); 5 large eggs; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 14 oz all-purpose flour (or 3 cups); 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 8 oz buttermilk; 1.5 oz Grace coconut chips, finely crushed (or 40 g (1 bag))

You can find the recipe for Cream Cheese Icing here.

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