Bounty Cupcakes

Soft moist coconut sponge topped with creamy chocolate coconut frosting, it’s just like eating a Bounty bar in cupcake form. Yes this is my second post on chocolate bar cupcake creations – keep tuned in and a few more creations are still pending a write-up.

Bounty Cupcakes

My father loves Bounty, one of his favourite chocolate bars and for his 65th birthday it was almost a must be inspired cake that I had to find away of making the flavours come together to taste like a bounty in a cake. 

Bounty Cupcakes

The cake itself is a light moist coconut cake, not too dense but full of coconut flavour with the coconut milk and desiccated coconut the flavours comes through very well.

Bounty Cupcakes

The frosting was an indulgent creamy chocolate with desiccated coconut and coconut milk bringing out the coconut taste with topped with a Bounty and more desiccated coconut to finish off. You can just spread on the frosting with a palette knife, but using a piping bag and star tip just makes the look pretty!

Bounty Cupcakes

It does seem like I’ve gone a little mad in the kitchen making all these cupcakes, but I do love making cakes or cupcakes for special people in my life, more so when there is no expectation, which definitely keeps it stress free. As my dad only asked for a few dozen cupcakes, it was like the imagination can go wild with such great ideas…and I had too many ideas than what I could bake! SO I do need another excuse to bake more cupcakes so that I can try out these ideas…now who’s birthday is next up?

Bounty Cupcakes

Bounty Bars are such an interesting bar, sweet coconut fudge covered in chocolate. Which means you could do a coconut cake with chocolate frosting or even a chocolate cake with a creamy coconut frosting…but I liked the idea of having a white cake cover in chocolate coconut frosting.

Bounty Cupcakes

Ingredients:
Cakes:
100g Margarine
150g Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
250g Self Raising Flour
75g Desiccated Coconut
100ml Coconut Milk
1 1/2tsp Baking Powder
Frosting:
100g Butter
50g Desiccated Coconut
2 Tbsp Coconut Milk
25g Cocoa Powder
300g Icing Sugar
3 Bounty Bars (Full Size)

Instructions:

Bounty Cupcakes

Cream together margarine and caster sugar until light and creamy, then add in the eggs and beat again.
Bounty Cupcakes

Add the self-raising flour, desiccated coconut, coconut milk and baking powder to the mixing bowl.
Bounty Cupcakes

Mix on medium speed for about 1-2 minutes until all the dry is mixed into the wet. 

Bounty Cupcakes

Scoop the batter evenly into 12 cupcake cases 

Bounty Cupcakes

Fill until half full.

Bounty Cupcakes

Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until lightly golden brown and fully baked, then allow to cool.

Bounty Cupcakes

In a mixing bowl add butter and cocoa powder and cream together.

Bounty Cupcakes

Add the coconut milk to the butter chocolate mixture.

Bounty Cupcakes

Add in the icing sugar and desiccated coconut to the frosting mixture.

Bounty Cupcakes

Mix together until light and creamy and holds a peak, if too stiff then add a little more coconut milk, if too running then add more icing sugar.

Bounty Cupcakes

Pipe the frosting over the cakes, add a 1/2 of a Bounty Bar and sprinkle on a little desiccated coconut. Enjoy

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