Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, quick italian cream cupcakes. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Toasted coconut and pecans in buttermilk cake batter topped with luscious cream cheese. Italian Cream Cake holds the distinction of being the only thing on Earth that will compel me to buy a bag of shredded flake coconut, which, until I f. Everything that's wonderful about Italian Cream Cake.but in cupcake form!
Quick Italian Cream Cupcakes is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Quick Italian Cream Cupcakes is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook quick italian cream cupcakes using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Quick Italian Cream Cupcakes:
- Get Cupcake Ingredients
- Get 16.25 oz. White cake mix with pudding
- Take egg whites
- Make ready almond extract
- Make ready buttermilk
- Make ready vegetable oil/canola oil
- Take sweetened coconut, divided
- Make ready chopped pecans, divided
- Get Cream Cheese Frosting
- Prepare cream cheese, softened
- Prepare butter, softened (1 stick)
- Take to 6 cups sifted powdered sugar
- Get vanilla extract
- Make ready almond extract
Back to my sister… she absolutely loves Italian Cream Cake and she had had it before quite a few times and she assures me that this one tastes great!! Without further delay… here's my recipe for Italian Cream Cheese Cupcakes. Wait - before I do that… quick. To make Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
Steps to make Quick Italian Cream Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350. Fill cupcake tin with liners and set aside.
- In a medium skillet over medium heat, add 1/2 cup of coconut.(Or more if you like) Continuously stir to allow the heat to dry out the coconut and begin to brown. This can take about 5-10 minutes. Also, keep in mind that if you are using sweetened coconut it tends to brown faster so keep a close eye on the browning process. Once brown, set aside to cool.
- Mix first five ingredients until well incorporated. Gently stir in 1 cup of coconut and 3/4 cup of pecans reserving the rest for the topping.
- Spoon the cupcake batter into your lined cupcake tin 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cupcake comes out clean. Remove from oven once done and allow to cool completely before frosting.
- For the cream cheese frosting- In a stand mixer (or a regular hand held mixer will do fine) beat the cream cheese and butter until well combined and smooth.
- Add the sifted powdered sugar one cup at a time until all the sugar is incorporated. Add in the almond and vanilla extracts until smooth and creamy.
- Frost cupcakes once cooled or pipe on frosting using a piping bag and tip. Top the cupcakes with remaining chopped pecans and toasted coconut and enjoy!
This Italian Cream Cake has three layers of moist cake filled with shredded coconut and toasted pecans! Made with homemade cream cheese The origin of Italian cream cake doesn't really seem to be known. And despite it's name, it's not exactly Italian in origin. It's really more of a southern cake. Italian Cream Cake has long been one of my favorite desserts.
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