Let's celebrate the plantpower's(vegan ) third anniversary 🎉🎉 with my coconut cupcakes

 ***With great joy in my heart, I join the @plantpowervegan to celebrate their 3 years anniversary*** I want to use this special opportunity to appreciate the @plantpoweonhive for its great work on hive, I truly appreciate their efforts in always appreciating our contents. I also want to appreciate @sirenhippie for her constant devotion and strength in building and developing this beautiful community.   An anniversary is not complete without a cake and I've made a nice coconut cake to celebrate this anniversary with my family, I also prepared a tray of sweet orange to complete the celebration. I also prepared a vegan butter icing to coat my cupcakes and make it more beautiful and appealing to the eyes.  Let me quickly share my exquisite recipe with you but first I want to invite @nkemakonam89 to participate in this contest using the link below https://hive.blog/hive-180569/@plantpoweronhive/the-brand-new-plant-based-challenge-a-birthday-cake-third-anniversary-lsq *** *** ***Ingredients needed*** *** *** | --|--- 2 and 1/2 cup of flour 250gram of vegan butter 125gram of sugar 1 big coconut 1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder 1 tablespoon of vanilla flavor 1 tablespoon of baking powder *** *** ***Ingredients for butter icing decorations*** *** ***  Icing sugar 500gram Butter 125gram Food color (green perfect for plantpoweonhive) Pearls for design ***Procedure for baking*** ***Step 1*** | --|---  I mix my butter together with sugar and mixed it for more than 5 minutes using a spatula until the butter became fluffy . ***step 2*** | --|--- I mixed all the dried ingredients together and set it aside in a clean bowl ***step 3*** | --|---  I grate my coconut using a grater and I extracted the water . I added both the water and chaft of the coconut to my flour mixture and mixed it together using my hand mixer. ***Step 4*** | --|--- I mix my butter and sugar together with the flour mixture, I added my cinnamon and vanilla flavor to enhance the flavor . ***step 5*** | --|--- I greased my cupcakes pan with some butter and flour , Then I add my mixture into the cupcake's pan and baked it till is ready . My coconut cake is ready and now is time for coating. ***Procedure for coating*** |  --|--- I mixed my icing sugar with butter until it is evenly mixed and I added a pinch of green food color to give me that perfect green color that I want and then stirred together .   I Poured it into my pipping bag and made some little decorations on the cup cake, I also added some star edible pearl to bring out the beauty of my cake.  Lastly I arranged a tray filled with orange to compliment the cake. I hope you like my recipe. *** *** Happy 3rd anniversary to the plantpoweonhive , wishing you greater heights All photos were shot by me *** *** Thanks for reading till the end. yours faithfully: yummycruz1