Coconut Cream Pie Cupcakes with Meringue Topping - CakeCentral.com

Ingredients

• Cake-
• 1 box DH Coconut Supreme Cake
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sourcream
• 1 1/3 cups milk , I use whole but I’m assuming you could you a lesser fat milk
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1 4oz box Coconut Cream Pie instant pudding
• 1/2-1 cup coconute depending on your personal taste
• 2 tsp coconut flavoring, I prefer McCormick
• Cream Pie Filling-
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 AP flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 cups milk , once again I use whole
• 3 egg yolks , reserve the whites for the meringue
• 2 tbl butter
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp coconut extract, flaked coconut can be used in place of the extract if you are using it in a cake, for the cupcakes you’ll have to use the extract so the filling can be piped into the cupcakes.
• Meringue-
• 3 egg whites
• 4 tbl sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla