These are coconut cupcakes topped with chocolate, coconut, and strawberry cream cheese frosting. This is by far my best attempt at strawberry cream cheese frosting. I don't normally use imitation flavorings, but I tried imitation strawberry this time. The flavor was great, but the only problem was that the extract did not color the frosting pink, and I ran out of red food coloring! Luckily, I had a few strawberries in the fridge and so I smashed one and mixed it into the frosting - it worked! It also added an extra punch to the flavoring of the frosting.
I also don't normally use cocoa powder. All my chocolate cupcakes are made with melted Baker's or Ghirardeli (my favorite!) chocolate. But, I didn't feel like doing the extra dishes it would take to melt chocolate (making 3 different flavors of frosting already produces way too many dishes - dishes are the only thing I don't like about baking) and I had a trustworthy recipe using cocoa powder. It turns out, I liked the cocoa powder in the frosting! And, it made it easier to pipe than adding melted chocolate. Another surprising success!
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