RECIPE: Chocolate cupcakes with coconut frosting by the Monday Morning Cooking Club

Today’s recipe is for the utterly delicious chocolate cupcakes with coconut frosting from Now for Something Sweet, the new cookbook by the Monday Morning Cooking Club (of which we have a very limited number of signed copies)!

Lisa Goldberg, Merelyn Frank Chalmers, Natanya Eskin and Jacqui Israel from Sydney’s Jewish community came together almost 15 years ago as friends with a shared desire to uncover their food-obsessed community’s heirloom recipes. The sisterhood has been meeting every Monday morning (and now many other days) for almost fifteen years with an unwavering mission to preserve recipes from past generations for us, and from our generation for the future.

Believe us when we say that these cupcakes are a sweet-toothed baker’s dream, and the best part is that they’re super easy to make – read on for the recipe!

These gorgeous cupcakes come from our incredibly generous friend Joan, from Joan’s on Third in Los Angeles.

Lisa and Natanya will never forget the first time they spotted these beauties in Joan’s sumptuous cake display. Two cupcakes were quickly passed over the counter, they took a bite, turned to each other and in unison nodded and mmmmed.

They had never tasted a cupcake with such an incredible texture; this is the chocolate cupcake of all chocolate cupcakes.

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

230 g (1 cup/8 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
125 g (1 cup less 2 tablespoons/4½ oz) plain (all-purpose) flour
60 g (½ cup/2 oz) unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder
½ teaspoon bicarb soda (baking soda)
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
65 g (2⅓ oz) dark chocolate, chopped
125 ml (½ cup/4¼ fl oz) boiling water 1 egg
125 ml (½ cup/4¼ fl oz) buttermilk
60 ml (¼ cup/2 fl oz) oil
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

COCONUT FROSTING

115 g (4 oz) cream cheese, at room temperature, chopped
75 g (2⅔ oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature, chopped
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
280 g (1¾ cups/10 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar
100 g (1 cup/3½ oz) coconut flakes

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F/Gas 3). You will need a 12-cup muffin pan lined with paper patty pans (cupcake liners).

In a large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer) combine the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, bicarb, baking powder and salt in a large bowl, and whisk by hand to combine.

Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and pour the boiling water over it. Set aside for 5 minutes until the chocolate melts, then whisk by hand until smooth.

In a separate bowl, combine the egg, buttermilk, oil and vanilla, and whisk to blend.

Using an electric mixer on low speed, add the melted chocolate to the dry ingredients, beating until well combined. Add the egg mixture slowly and continue beating until just smooth.

Pour the batter into the prepared pans, filling each to two-thirds full. Bake in the middle of the oven for 25 minutes or until the cakes springs back when touched. Cool completely before frosting.

To make the frosting, beat the butter and cream cheese on a low speed until combined and smooth. Add the vanilla and scrape down the sides.

Add the icing sugar all at once and mix on low speed until combined, then increase speed to medium and beat for about 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.

Place the coconut flakes on a plate. Spread or pipe a generous amount (20 g/¾ oz) of frosting onto each cupcake then gently roll in the coconut flakes to get a nice coating of flakes on top.

Makes 12

–Recipe extracted from Now for Something Sweet by Monday Morning Cooking Club (HarperCollins Australia) RRP $49.99, out now.

Watch the ladies of the Monday Morning Cooking Club bake these cupcakes!

Find out more about the Monday Morning Cooking Club here.

Now for Something Sweet

Limited Signed Copies Available!

by The Monday Morning Cooking Club

After three best-selling cookbooks, the irrepressible Monday Morning Cooking Club returns with a stunning fourth book, a collection of mostly sweet heirloom recipes that are as treasured as they are mouthwatering.

Now for Something Sweet is the result of an intensive search to uncover, curate and celebrate the very best, most cherished sweet recipes from the Jewish community...

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