Spiced Coconut Cupcakes

Yield: 18 cupcakes
Recipe: 124/200
“Back to Baking”, pp. 140

     I had been craving cupcakes since the beginning of the quarantine and had yet to bake some. Normally I would go for moist comforting chocolate cupcakes, but yesterday I decided to try something new and made these spiced coconut cupcakes. The spice blend for this recipe seemed interesting and I was quite curious about the black pepper. I don’t think I’ve ever used black pepper in a dessert recipe before! Turns out that it works very well indeed.

Ingredients for cupcakes:

• 2 cups + 2 tablespoons cake and pastry flour *
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon fancy molasses
• 1 ½ teaspoon…