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Yes I finally made them! I thought I'd take about 2 days but I finished them in the morning. That's pretty quick!

Got up early to do the pandan cupcakes first, no one to disturb me. Decided to make the frosting before storing the cakes since I had the time.

Recipe adapted from here.

Pandan Cupcake

125g butter
2 eggs
150g sugar
200g self raising flour
3 tbsp homemade pandan extract
80g coconut milk +20g water

Coconut cream cheese frosting
(aka experiment)

250g cream cheese
120g butter
Finished off my icing sugar, probably 3/4 cup
Splashes of coconut milk
Grated coconut
Some gula melaka syrup

Cream the butter and sugar like the normal cake method. Add eggs one by one until batter incorporated. Add in the flour and milk mixture in a flour - milk - flour sequence.

Since I didn't use any green colouring, my cupcakes turned out pale green. The top is more brown that green too.

Made holes using a knife and ate all those cut out pieces huahuahua. That was my only cupcake while baking. I was very disciplined, managed to not eat too much batter since I used the scraper and scraped most of them out. Cupcake after baked smells sooo good but I didn't eat one whole cupcake.

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I bought dessicated coconut from Phoon Huat (see photo, that redman packaging) and they're really quite largely grated. I planned to use them to hold the gula melaka syrup in the filling, as well as use them for the topping.

Melted some gula melaka in water, then soaked the grated coconut with it. I had to poke them in the holes, push as much as I can to fill up the air gaps. Still had some left over, so I used as topping since my cream cheese coconut frosting isn't pretty. Ha ha.

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All ready! Shouldn't have put grated coconut in the frosting, hard to make the frosting look nice. I tried the Phoon Huat cream cheese which is much cheaper than Philadelphia and tastes as good! Bye Phili.

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End product! Had some good reviews, I had one or two cupcakes at the family gathering but I was busy eating more of his cousin's blondies! Totally yummy, used white chocolate chips and cashews. Cashews! Something to try next time!