Coconut, Lime & Kiwifruit Muffins

By The Culinary Chase | March 2, 2007 |

You know when you look at a recipe and like the sound of it? Well, that’s exactly what I thought when I decided to make these delicious morsels. This recipe is adapted from the March issue of Australian Good Taste magazine. Ready to eat in 30 minutes!

Makes 8 cupcakes
1/2 cup desiccated coconut
2 cups of self-raising flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lime rind
3 kiwifruit, peeled and thinly sliced
90g melted butter
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/2 cup shredded coconut
icing sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 200c. Grease eight (150ml capacity) muffin pans. Combine flour, sugar, desiccated coconut and lime rind in a bowl. Make a well in the center. Whisk together butter, buttermilk and egg in a bowl. Add to flour mixture and stir until combined. Divide mixture between the prepared muffin pan. Top with kiwifruit and sprinkle with shredded coconut. Bake 20-25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Turn out on a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar.

The Culinary Chase’s Note: Make sure to push the kiwifruit into the batter. Adding some chopped kiwifruit to the batter will enhance the kiwifruit topping. These beauties are lovely eaten warm. Enjoy!

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8 Comments

  1. Patricia Scarpin on March 2, 2007 at 13:44

    Great and delicious ingredients combined – your cupcakes look beautiful!



  2. Rachel on March 2, 2007 at 15:38

    All of my favorite things in one muffin!



  3. Chris on March 3, 2007 at 05:33

    Yum! You need to add this to the Muffin Monday blog event Experiments is hosting (http://www.sqpixels.net/)



  4. Shawnda on March 5, 2007 at 02:29

    The muffins look terrific!



  5. Scott on March 5, 2007 at 17:17

    I love muffins. Isn’t it strange how home made muffins are much smaller then those in shops yet taste so much better?



  6. tigerfish on March 5, 2007 at 22:58

    Never had kiwi cupcake before. Sound great!



  7. The Culinary Chase on March 6, 2007 at 07:37

    Thanks everyone for your kind words!
    Cheers!
    Heather



  8. Linda on March 7, 2007 at 16:24

    wow this muffin is truly impressive! thanks for the recipe – can’t wait to try it.

    your herb blogging below also looks wonderful. i LOVE rosemary!