Cupcakes with fresh pineapple, cream cheese frosting and pineapple flowers

Dense, moist but delicate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, fresh pineapple and pineapple flowers. They are decorated with a simple to prepare yet so beautiful decorations of pineapple flowers that you can easily prepare at home.

Cupcakes with fresh pineapple, cream cheese frosting and pineapple flowers

Soft cupcakes with fresh pineapple, cream cheese frosting and pineapple flowers baked in the oven.

Course sweets and desserts

Cuisine vegetarian

Keyword cream cheese, cupcake from scratch, easy cupcakes, pineapple, soft cupcakes

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings cupcakes

Calories 101kcal

Ingredients

Cupcakes

1 egg
0.75 cup chopped pineapple fresh
0.25 cup vegetable oil I used sunflower oil
0.25 cup milk
2 tbsp or more brown sugar
1.5 cup all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder

Frosting and flowers

10 or more thin slices of fresh pineapple
150 g cream cheese
50 g soft butter
0.5 cup or more powdered sugar

Instructions

Instructions: Cupcakes with fresh pineapple, cream cheese frosting and pineapple flowers

In a bowl mix the egg, chopped pineapple, oil, milk and sugar.
Add sifted flour and baking powder and stir briefly. Do not overmix the batter.
Line your muffin pan with paper liners and fill up to 3/4 in height with the prepared batter. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
For the flower decoration: peel the pineapple and cut it with a sharp knife into very thin slices (a couple of millimeters). Dry the slices with kitchen paper and laid on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake in preheated oven at 100 °C for 1 hour – 1 hour and a half turning a couple of times while baking. Switch off the oven and place hot slices inside cups, or like I did, in the muffin tin. They will dry out completely and and will have the shape of a flower.
For the frosting beat the butter until it becomes light and frothy, add the cream cheese and icing sugar and beat again until all the ingredients are combined.
Decorate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting then add the pineapple flower and serve.