Cute as a Button!

Drooling? You will be after you see this recipe! Coconut cupcakes (courtesy of Martha Stewart) and homemade buttercream frosting. YUM.

I made these for a baby shower & luncheon that a friend and I hosted at my home this afternoon. It was SO MUCH FUN! Great food, friends, visiting and laughter!


I saw these fun chocolate buttons on Bakerella. She had linked them to Bake it Pretty who sold the molds for them. I HAD to have some. So I put in my order and they came in time for me to make them for this baby shower!

I used blue, white, and brown Wilton melts and put them into tiny plastic lollipop bags. I printed out a design that I made on my computer along with the baby's birth info. I cut out each tag, folded it in half and stapled it across the baggie just like a bag of buttons that you would find in a craft store.


The perfect party favor. I used the buttons on top of the cupcakes as well.


Martha Stewart's Coconut Cupcakes

Makes 21
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup packed sweetened shredded coconut
6 ounces (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 large eggs plus 2 large egg whites
3/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl. Put coconut flakes into a food processor and pulse until finely shredded. Wisk into dry ingredients.

In a seperate bowl, cream butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and beat.

Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with coconut milk and ending with dry. Scrape sides of bowl. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full.
Bake cupcakes until testers inserted into centers come out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks. Cupcakes will keep, covered, for up to 3 days, or freeze for one month.



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Buttecream Frosting
{adapted from Wilton's Buttercream frosting}

{you may use shortening, and use butter flavoring instead of vanilla, but butter tastes so much better!}

1 c. butter
1 pound sifted powdered sugar
2 T. water
1 tsp. flavoring (I used vanilla)

Place ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat. Scrape sides, then continue beating until smooth.