Our Super Easy Coconut Fairy Cakes Recipe
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Any regular reader will know that most weeks we bake fairy cakes, cupcakes or muffins to snack on whenever we need a sweet treat. I love experimenting with flavours and our most recent creation is a great Coconut Fairy Cakes recipe.
How do you make this Coconut Fairy Cake recipe?
These easy fairy cakes are so easy to make. You just need typical cake ingredients – eggs, butter, flour and sugar plus desiccated coconut to add that lovely coconut flavour.
For this little coconut queen cakes recipe, we use unsalted butter or margarine, caster sugar and self raising flour for ease. But, you can use any kind of sugar you like – light brown sugar or even granulated sugar work well. And you can also use plain flour / all purpose flour and a tsp baking powder or baking soda if you like. It’s a great cake recipe for you to use whatever you have to hand.
We also enjoy these small coconut fairy cakes plain, cooled down and eaten straight from the oven. However, you could add some buttercream frosting, coconut cream cheese frosting or a dusting of icing sugar if you wanted. They’re also lovely with some simple glace icing, creating cute coconut iced fairy cakes with a sprinkle of desiccated coconut on the top. But, you could even add some chocolate chips to make some chocolate chip coconut fairy cakes.
We eat these little coconut cakes really quickly but they do keep well in an airtight container for a few days but they never usually last that long in our house.
If you’re looking for other recipes to try, here’s our apple fairy cakes, cherry bakewell fairy cakes and golden syrup fairy cakes recipes. You can see all our recipes to date here.
What equipment do you need to make these little Coconut Fairy Cakes?
You will no doubt have most of the equipment you need for this recipe at home already but, in case it helps, here are the things we use to bake these cakes at home:
- A 12 hole muffin tin
- Paper cake cases
- A mixing bowl
- Scales
- A wooden spoon
- Measuring spoons
- A wire rack
These are pretty much staples for baking in any home kitchen and once you have them you won’t need to replace them often.
Here’s our easy Coconut Fairy Cakes recipe:
Makes: 12 cakes
Ingredients:
- 170g unsalted butter or margarine at room temperature
- 170g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 140g self raising flour, sifted
- 30g dessicated coconut
- 3 eggs
Recipe:
- Preheat oven to 200C/400F/Gas 7
- Line a muffin tray with paper cases.
- Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- Spoon the cake batter mixture into the paper cases and bake for 20 minutes and golden brown.
- Leave to cool completely and enjoy.
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Coconut Fairy Cakes
Ingredients
- 170 g unsalted butter or margarine at room temperature
- 170 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 140 g self raising flour sifted
- 30 g desicated coconut
- 3 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C/400F/Gas 7
- Line a muffin tray with paper cases.
- Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- Spoon the cake batter mixture into the paper cases and bake for 20 minutes and golden brown.
- Leave to cool completely and enjoy.
*Note: Nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.
