How to Cook Delicious Vickys Pina Colada Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF

Vickys Pina Colada Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF.

You can have Vickys Pina Colada Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vickys Pina Colada Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF

1. You need 225 g of gluten-free / plain flour.
2. Prepare 1/8 tsp of xanthan gum if using GF flour.
3. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate of soda / baking soda.
5. Prepare 60 g of gold foil Stork block margarine.
6. It's 150 g of granulated sugar.
7. You need 150 g of pineapple chunks, drained.
8. It's 80 ml of fresh pineapple juice.
9. You need 80 ml of full fat coconut milk.
10. You need 2 tsp of lemon juice.
11. It's 1 tsp of rum extract.
12. You need of for the Buttercream.
13. Prepare 150 g of gold foil Stork block margarine.
14. It's 350 g of icing sugar.
15. You need 2 tbsp of coconut milk.
16. You need 1 tsp of vanilla / coconut extract.
17. Prepare of for the Garnish.
18. It's 60 g of desiccated coconut.
19. Prepare 12 of marachino cocktail cherries.
20. You need 12 of pineapple chunks.
21. It's 12 of cocktail umbrellas.

Vickys Pina Colada Cupcakes, GF DF EF SF NF detailed

1. Preheat the oven to gas 4 / 180C / 350F and line a 12 hole cupcake tin / muffin with paper cases.
2. Mix the flour, xanthan gum if using, baking powder and bicarb together.
3. Cream together the sugar and margarine.
4. Put the pineapple chunks, juice, coconut milk, lemon juice and rum essence in a blender and puree.
5. Add it to the creamed margarine & sugar. The mixture will look curdled. Don't worry!.
6. Add into the flour mixture gradually as to avoid the batter clumping.
7. Once it's all mixed in, divide equally between the paper cases.
8. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until firm and risen. FYI if you use a muffin tin rather than a cupcake tray they will appear taller and not as spread out.
9. Let cool in the tin for 10 minutes then remove the cakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
10. Meanwhile, make the buttercream. Cream together the icing sugar and margarine until light.
11. Add the coconut milk and vanilla extract to loosen to a piping consistency and ice the cakes.
12. Sprinkle the desiccated coconut over the buttercream.
13. Add a cherry and a pineapple chunk on top with a trimmed cocktail umbrella for garnish.