for celebrations

 PIÑA COLADA CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS:

• 1.5 cups flour
• 0.5 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup finely chopped pineapple
• 2 jeggs
• 0.5 cup milk
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 4 tablespoons white rum

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1 stabilizer for whipped cream
• 2 tablespoons white rum
• 0.7 cup desiccated coconut
• 3 pineapple slices

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Combine the sifted flour with the sugar (regular and vanilla), baking powder and salt. Fold in the pineapple.

2. Mix the eggs with the milk, vegetable oil and rum. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ones and stir until roughly combined.

3. Fill paper liners with the batter.

BAKE:   18 min.   180° C

4. Whip the heavy cream with the vanilla sugar and stabilizer. 

Add the rum and coconut.

5. Top the cupcakes with the cream and quartered pineapple 

slices.

Note: Instead of rum you can use rum flavour: 

add two teaspoons of it to the batter and 1 teaspoon to the topping.