Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pina colada cupcakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Pina Colada Cupcakes are a must try dessert! These are soft, moist, fluffy, and brimming with those classic pina colada flavors we all crave!

Pina colada cupcakes is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pina colada cupcakes is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pina colada cupcakes using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pina colada cupcakes:

1. Prepare 1 box of white cake mix
2. Take 3/4 cup Pina colada premium mix ( nonalccoholic flavored )
3. Prepare 1/2 cup water
4. Make ready 3 eggs
5. Take 1/3 cup Vegetable oil
6. Prepare 1 cup Coconut flakes
7. Take 1 can sliced pineapple
8. Prepare 12 maraschino cherries cut in halfs
9. Prepare 1 Container Betty Crocker Whipped vanilla frosting
10. Take 1 cup Marshmallow cream
11. Prepare 8 straws cut into 3 pieces each

The recipe for the cupcake is the same as my pineapple cupcake recipe, with the addition of rum extract. The extract amps up the pineapple flavor in this sweet cupcake. Make the cupcakes: In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt butter in the microwave.

Steps to make Pina colada cupcakes:

1. preheat oven to 350°F and bake on 350. put paper cup liner in cupcake pan, this will make 24 cupcakes.
2. in a mixing bowl and an electric mixer or stand up mixer, add eggs, oil, water and pina colada mix, mix for 15 seconds, then add cake mix, mix for 1 minute, scrape around inside the bowl, mix again for 3 minutes.
3. scoop batter in to each cupcake paper cups ….bake for 23 minutes.. take out if oven let cool completely
4. in a bowl mix whipped vanilla frosting and marshmallow cream together mix well
5. spread a spoonful on each cupcake,
6. in a small bowl put the coconut flakes, then take cupcake with frosting, dip into coconut flakes,
7. cut pineapples into 6 pieces u will need 4 rings of pineapples. and slice in halfs cherries, place one piece of pineapples, and one half cherrie on each cupcake.
8. i put a piece of a straw on top for decoration.

The Pina Colada effect comes from matching a Pineapple Cupcake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting. Although if for some (crazy!) reason you don't like coconut, these cupcakes would be delicious with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting (and maybe a small slice of fresh pineapple). Line a muffin or cupcake pan with liners; set aside. While cupcakes are baking, make the frosting. Add butter, vanilla and rum to mixer bowl.

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