Coconut Flour Cupcakes / Muffins
Cake Decor in Cairns test kitchen. The other day I stumbled on some lovely fruit powders made by Nutrafresh and in my excitement I decided that my first test would be mango cream cheese frosting for a coconut cake. I had heard about coconut flour so I thought this would be a great opportunity to use it. I found a packet of Niulife Coconut flour at my local health food store. It sounds great, gluten free, high fibre, low carb and packed with protein. Niulife facebook page. Coconut flour purchased in Cairns. I had no idea what to do with it so the Google search began. I began to realise that it wasn't going to be easy to get good cake out of it, and probably best suited to muffins and breads. Coconut flour is very thirsty so you only need a small amount but you have to add a lot of eggs and other liquids to get a cakey muffin type result. It also doesn't have a strong coconut flavour which was disappointing for my wants (coconut cake) bu...