Sunday, May 26, 2013

Chocolate & Coconut Bounty Cupcakes

I seem to have gone a bit crazy making cupcakes recently, I think it's since I purchased the new Hummingbird Bakery book, Home Sweet Home where you can find lots of different delicious recipes. I was talking to someone the other day who suggested making every single recipe from one cookery book as on average people usually make about 3 or 4 per book. I think the Hummingbird Bakery book could be a good one for carrying out this challenge as all the recipes look great!
I made these cupcakes specifically for a charity bake sale, along with some vanilla cupcakes and the Cherry Bakewell muffins that I made a few weeks ago. To make them, I made a chocolate batter using Green and Blacks Cocoa Powder. Once made the cases were filled to about two-thirds full and then about a third of a small Bounty bar was gently pushed down into each case as you can see above. The mixture covered the Bounty and the cakes were then put in to bake.
To finish the cakes I made a buttercream icing which also contained coconut milk. There is a technique to applying the icing to the cake with a palette knife to give it a professional swirl but I have to say, I have definitely not mastered the technique. However, the icing was lovely and creamy and it doesn't really matter if you don't master the swirl as the final touch was to sprinkle each cake with desiccated coconut, so you can't really see it anyway. Lastly, another third of a mini Bounty bar was added on top.
Not everyone is a fan of Bounty bars but for anyone who does like them or anyone who is a fan of chocolate and coconut, then these cupcakes are a real treat with the Bounty baked inside and the gorgeous creamy icing on top. They were well received at our cake sale and along with the other lovely ladies who baked we managed to raise 357 pounds for a local Women's Aid Shelter.
If you want to give these a go yourself, you can find the recipe in the Home Sweet Home recipe book, or alternatively, just push a piece of Bounty into your favourite chocolate cupcake batter before you bake it and then make a regular buttercream, adding some coconut milk, before finishing with desiccated coconut and a bit of Bounty on top.

18 comments:

  1. I love Bounty's so these would be ideal for me. They look amazing!

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  2. Bounty's are my favourite chocolate bar. I'm a coconut fanatic! :) these look amazing.

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  3. I love bounty - these cupcakes are making me drool!

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  4. well no one blames u laura cupcakes are awesome! yours look lovely and professional. I've been making cupcakes 2....juts put up lemon+blueberry ones with a lemon cream cheese frosting.
    ps thought your jaffa ones were amazing!
    My Cupcake Habit

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  5. I'm not a huge coconut fan, but man do those look incredible! Great job :)

    Happy Blogging!
    Happy Valley Chow

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  6. I love the Hummingbird bakery books and always try as much as possible from them and these do look so good. I never use coconut very much don't know why as I love it, so you have inspired me to use it a bit more.

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  7. These look and sound wonderful - they are absolutely beautifully decorated. I must have a look at this book - I have the first one but not this one!

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  8. A taste of paradise as the Bounty ad said! ( I can't believe no other comment said that...but maybe I'm just too cheesy!).

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  9. I really need to get my hands on this book! The cupcakes look really good but I'm not a fan of coconut so I'll have the vanilla cupcakes please :)Well done on raising so much for charity!

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  10. These sound gorgeous - they have made me put the Hummingbird book on my wishlist and also have major Bounty cravings!

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  11. I adore Bounty bars. I used to eat them all the time before I decided that I needed to be a bit 'healthier'. Now I eat them occasionally and have date, cacao and coconut bliss balls as a more regular exchange! :) These cupcakes sound like a perfectly indulgent, delicious treat. Great idea to have the little 'pop' of Bounty in the centre as a surprise!

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  12. I love the combination of chocolate and coconut or anything with coconut in it really, and will definitely have to print of this recipe and recreate myself. Glad to hear you helped to raise money for such a worthy cause x

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  13. These look so good! I love Bounty bars!

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  14. How inventive! Well presented too! You are so talented. Did you also make the smartie cookies in the photo? Do you have the recipe? I want to make them! (not sure how to search recipes on this blog) Thanks!

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  15. These look fab and love the idea of a squidgy bit of bounty in the centre. I don't know why but I rarely seem to use coconut in baking.

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  16. Yum! I'm coconut obsessed so double bounty in a cupcake sounds amazing to me!

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  17. I'm not a coconut fan but my boyfriend would love these! I just got that Hummingbird book and can't wait to try things from it - not sure if it will be able to replace Cake Days as my favourite (that would have to be the one I would bake everything from!)

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