These Keto Coconut Cupcakes are a vanilla flavored dessert made with almond and coconut flour. They are sprinkled with unsweetened flaked coconut in the batter, and, once baked and cooled, they are frosted with a sugar-free Lime Buttercream frosting. Making these keto cupcakes a delicious combination of coconut and lime!
Easily portable, Keto Coconut Cupcakes with Lime Buttercream Frosting are a great choice for picnics, potlucks, and birthdays! Everyone will love these hand held cakes full of coconut and lime!
Making this recipe Keto Friendly
I love my cupcakes. And, having said that, I am prompted to want to bake all of my favorite recipes the keto way now. A favorite non-keto cupcake recipe of mine is the Coconut Cupcakes with Lime Buttercream Frosting. As a matter of fact, if your family is not keto, you may want to make that recipe for them and keep this keto coconut cupcake to yourself!
I was missing my coconut cupcake lately. So, I made an attempt at keto-izing the original! The keto coconut cupcake version turned out on the first try! And, as a result, the whole dozen of them were gone in just a couple of days. I would say that is a big baking win for me!
How Did you make these Coconut Cupcakes Keto Friendly?
I substituted almond flour for the regular flour, removed the cornstarch, added coconut flour and xanthan gum instead for thickening agents. I also increased the baking powder in the recipe.
Yes, just substitute coconut oil for the butter in the cupcake batter and substitute the butter in the frosting with the solids in the coconut cream.
These Keto Coconut Cupcakes are baked at a lower temperature to prevent burning. The almond flour will tend to burn before finishing baking if you do so. These cupcakes took 40 minutes to bake, at 350, the tops would have burned.
I have not tried this, but think it may work. However the coconut milk is thinner than the coconut cream and you may not need as much of it if you substitute. I can't guarantee your success with the recipe if you do substitute.
Making the Keto Coconut Cupcakes
Start your cake batter by creaming together softened butter and Swerve granulated sweetener.
Once the sweetner and butter have been creamed together, add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Next, place the dry ingredients into wet ingredients bowl and blend well using a hand mixer. Add coconut cream and blend until creamy.
Using a ¼ cup scoop, place 1 scoop of batter into baking pan lined with cupcake papers. Bake for 40 minutes at 325, or until cupcakes are lightly browned and toothpick test comes out clean.
Remove the cupcakes from oven and cool in baking pan for 10 minutes.
Finish cooling the cupcakes on the cooling rack. Remove cupcakes from baking pan and cool completely on cooling rack.
Making the Lime Buttercream Frosting
Cream together the cream cheese, lime juice, and Swerve Powdered sweetener for frosting.
Frost completely cooled Keto Coconut Cupcakes.
I love my silicone baking pans! Silicone makes making your keto cupcake dessert easier when removing your baked product. Keto cupcakes are more fragile and silicone doesn't stick. You can easily remove them just by pushing up on the bottom of the cup and your cupcake will pop right out!
What to serve with Keto Coconut Cupcakes with Lime Buttercream?
I love how portable these cupcakes are, making them a perfect make and take dessert. These would be great to bring along to your next picnic, potluck or reunion along with this Chopped Taco Salad!
📖 Recipe
Keto Coconut Cupcakes with Lime Buttercream Frosting
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Ingredients
For the Cupcakes:
- [1 cup 4 oz almond flour]
- [¼ cup coconut flour]
- ½ tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- [1 teaspoon Xanthan Gum]
- [¾ cup Swerve Granulated Sweetener]
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup Coconut Cream liquid portion only, no solids
- ½ cup flaked unsweetened coconut
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Frosting:
- 3 tablespoons butter softened
- [1 tablespoon Coconut Cream liquid portion only, no solids]
- ½ teaspoon grated lime rind
- 2 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- [1 cup Swerve Powdered Sweetener]
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Line muffin tin with cupcake liners.
- In a bowl, whisk together 1 cup almond flour, ¼ cup coconut flour, ½ tablespoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon Xanthan Gum. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together 2 tablespoons softened butter and ¾ cup Swerve granulated sweetener.
- Add 1 large egg to butter mixture and mix until well combined. Add the 2nd large egg and repeat.
- Mix in coconut cream and vanilla extract until well blended.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until well combined.
- Stir in unsweetened coconut flakes.
- Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups.
- Bake at 350° for 18 minutes or until cupcakes are lightly browned no longer wet on top.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes; gently remove from pan.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
- To prepare frosting, combine 3 tablespoons butter and next 3 ingredients (through juice) in a medium bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
- Gradually add the powdered sweetener, beating just until smooth.
- Spread about 2 ½ teaspoons frosting onto each cupcake.
