Tropical Passion Fruit Cupcakes + Giveaway
These tropical passion fruit cupcakes start with an airy coconut cupcake infused with passion fruit puree. Topped with coconut whipped cream, these tropical cupcakes are perfection.
Happy Monday friends! I have tropical cupcakes for you today because nothing says Mondays to me like cupcakes. If you follow our #cupcakemondays you will see that a lot of people agree the best way to face a Monday is with one of these little cakes in hand. To celebrate our love for cupcakes, a few of my fellow cupcake enthusiasts and I are sharing with you our favorite summer cupcake recipes today in a big #CupcakeMondays party. These tropical passion fruit cupcakes are my contribution to the party and are now truly my favorite cupcakes to date. Light, sweet and filled with tropical flavors, these coconut passion fruit cupcakes will blow your mind away.
You already know I LOVE passion fruit (we talked about it over here when I shared the recipe for this bunkers awesome passion fruit bundt cake). So it was only a matter of time for me to combine it with coconut, my second love. Coconut + passion fruit = tropical bliss in my opinion and that’s exactly what these tropical passion fruit cupcakes are.
Starting with a fluffy coconut cupcake that is infused with passion fruit puree, you can taste the airy breeze of the tropics right in the cupcake. To keep with the light nature of the flavors, I topped the cupcakes with a sweet coconut whipped cream. Using coconut cream and a dash of heavy cream, the frosting is to DIE for. Just try not to eat it all by the spoonful before frosting the cupcakes.
These tropical passion fruit cupcakes are epic and really perfect in the summer. You need to make them and I know you will love them as much as I do.
To continue the #CupcakeMondays party, be sure to check out the other cupcake recipes from my friends. You are in for a treat!!
Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting from The Itsy-Bitsy Kitchen
Salted Caramel Cupcakes from A Table Full of Joy
Better Than Box Mix Cupcakes from Kelly Lynn’s Sweets and Treats
Peach Moscato Cupcakes from Blue Bowl Recipes
Candy Apple Cupcakes from Love in My Oven
White and Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes from Pies and Tacos
Tropical Passion Fruit Cupcakes from A Classic Twist
And of course, no party is complete without gifts! THANK YOU to our wonderful sponsors Rodelle, Redmond Real Salt and B.Toffee for the fabulous giveaway prize. One lucky winner will win:
For the Whipped Cream: A sweet and slightly tart passion fruit curd. Perfect as a filling, topping or to enjoy by the spoonful. Prepare a double boiler by bring a medium sauce pan of water to bowl. Place the cubed butter into a medium heat proof bowl and set aside. In another medium or large heat proof bowl, whisk together the passion fruit puree, sugar and egg yolks. Place the large bowl over the boiling water and whisk continuously until the mixture thickens, about 15 minutes. You should be able to draw a line with the back of a spoon and it holds. Once ready, pour the passion fruit curd mixture over the butter. Stir in the vanilla extract and mix until the butter melts and incorporates. Place a plastic wrap directly over the surface of the curd. Refrigerate until thickened, about 2 hours or overnight.
Tropical Passion Fruit Cupcakes
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Passion Fruit Curd
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These look INSANE! I love anything with tropical flavors :). It’s like taking a vacation without having to get on a plane! Happy #CupcakeMondays!
Exactly!! Going to someplace tropical in the taste buds lol!
Passionfruit is absolutely my favorite to use for baked goods. this looks scrumptious and beyond! Thank you for bringing us together on #cupcakemondays!!!
These are my favorite!! Passionfruit is the best ever! Specially on baked goods! You should try passionfruit mousse if you ever get a chance. It’s a very popular dessert in Brazil, and probably my favorite dessert if I ever had to really pick just one! Love how bright and flavorful these are!!
Oh my yes, I will try it. Sounds incredible!!
These cupcakes transport me to somewhere tropical 🙂 It’s a beautiful contribution to Cupcake Mondays!
Thank you!!
Cupcakes are making a COMEBACK! They’re actually my favorite way to eat cake…they have such a perfect frosting:cake ratio. These are my tropical fruit loving cupcake DREAM. I just wish I had a more reliable source for passionfruit!
The ratio is ideal and you don’t feel like you need a big slice. So satisfying!! I know – my local Wegmans carry the fruit in the summer but they always have the puree/pulp in the frozen section.
Passion Fruit Curd in a cupcake sounds AMAZING!! I will take a dozen please!! And thanks for organizing this fun blogger collaboration. So much fun participating in #CupcakeMondays ….it’s motivating me to bake more cupcakes 🙂 XOXO
Thanks, Kelly!!
Cupcake Mondays are so fun and these cupcakes take the cake! I love tropical flavors as you know and that passionfruit filling looks incredible!
Thanks Marcie!
I love the idea of including the passion fruit curd! I love passion fruit and it just sounds absolutely wonderful in a light bright tropical cupcake. Just a sign we all need more cupcakes in our lives!
We all need more cupcakes … always!
I never would’ve thought to use passion fruit!!! These look amazing! And the filling- yes please!!
It’s a fun flavor in tropical treats!
ahhh i love passion fruit too! whenever i go out and see passion fruit flavored things in restaurants or bakeries or wherever, i always end up getting it lol.
Same here – I always always end up getting it!
The published passion fruit recipe list “untitled ingredient “ what is the ingredient and amount?
Althea – sorry for the typo. There is no missing ingredient. Just a malfunction in my recipe card plugin.
This recipe looks delicious can’t wait to try it. My best summer dish is having a good bowl of fruit cupcakes!
I agree with you! that’s the best summer dish 🙂
I love this recipe. I wanted to know if the lemon curd that goes inside the cupcakes will make the cupcakes soggy? I am planning on making the cupcakes and transporting them (~2.5 hr drive) so I’m concerned that they won’t taste as good because of that
Hi Katie, the curd won’t make them soggy for a short time like that. I think extended time over a few days it would then get soggy.