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This Petite Coconut Popovers recipe is wonderful for breakfast or brunch. We love them served hot out of the oven with butter or orange marmalade.

Petite Coconut Popovers Recipe - light and airy "muffins" with coconut that want to POP into your next breakfast or brunch! Delicious when served hot out of the oven with butter, orange marmalade, or your choice of spread.

A couple years ago, I bought this Nordic Ware Petite Popover Pan. It was on clearance and I HAD to have it. I really like Nordic Ware products and who doesn’t love popovers?

So, I bought the pan. And tucked it away with my other pans. And I never used it. I’d like to say that this behavior is unusual for me, but let’s be honest…I do it all the time.

NordicWare Petite Popovers Pan

This week I ended that “never-used popover pan” nonsense and put that thing to work. And by work, I mean it was used for at least 6 batches of popovers. Overall, while my family have been happy testers, but it wasn’t until the last couple of batches that I was happy with my recipe and ready to share it with you.

To make these petite coconut popovers, you will want a mini popover pan. I love my Nordic Ware Popover Pan and recommend it. If you don’t want to get one, I’ve heard that you could use a muffin pan instead (but I haven’t personally tried it).

The first step is to mix up the batter, which is very simple: eggs, coconut milk, melted butter, flour, and salt. I found it best to mix with a wire whisk. In my first attempts, I used a hand mixer and I felt that it over-mixed the batter and this is something you don’t want to do. Set your batter aside to rest for about 30 minutes.

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Now for the important part: Towards the end of your batter resting, preheat your oven and place your EMPTY, non-greased popover pan into the oven for about 2 minutes. Working quickly, pull it out of the oven and spray each cup with cooking spray or brush them with butter. Then fill the cups with batter, about 3/4 of the way full. Top the batter in each cup with about 1 teaspoon of shredded coconut.

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Put that filled popover pan back into the hot oven — first at 450 degrees F and then at 350 degrees F. As they cook, the steam builds up in the tall cup, causing the batter to “popover” the edge of the cup.

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You’ll want to remove the popovers from your pan right away after baking. I also cut a small slit in the side of each one to allow the steam to escape (to avoid the from getting soggy).

Petite Coconut Popovers Recipe - light and airy "muffins" with coconut that want to POP into your next breakfast or brunch! Delicious when served hot out of the oven with butter, orange marmalade, or your choice of spread.

And that’s all there is to it! They are definitely best served right away. I also recommend pairing them with butter or jelly. My personal favorite is flavored butters, like Orange Flavored Butter. SO GOOD.

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Here’s the full recipe for your popover enjoyment! If you like this recipe, be sure to save it to Pinterest for safekeeping.

Petite Coconut Popovers Recipe

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Petite Coconut Popovers Recipe - light and airy "muffins" with coconut that want to POP into your next breakfast or brunch! Delicious when served hot out of the oven with butter, orange marmalade, or your choice of spread.

Coconut Popovers Recipe

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  • Author: Brandie Valenzuela
  • Yield: 16 petite popovers 1x
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Description

This Petite Coconut Popovers recipe is wonderful for breakfast or brunch. We love them served hot out of the oven with butter or orange marmalade.

Ingredients

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  • 3 large eggs (room temperature)
  • 1 1/2 cups unsweetened coconut milk (I used Silk CoconutMilk, room temperature)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons butter (melted)
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup shredded coconut
  • Cooking spray or softened butter (for greasing pan)

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, beat together the eggs and coconut milk with a wire whisk, just until fully combined. Blend in the melted butter, sugar, flour, and salt with a wire whisk until smooth. You want to make sure you have no large lumps, but very small ones are ok. Set batter aside to rest, about 30 minutes.
  2. Near the end of the batter resting time, preheat your oven to 450 degrees F, making sure there is ample room above the bottom or middle rack for when the popovers expand.
  3. Place your empty (non-greased) petite popover pan in the preheated oven for about 2 minutes. Working quickly,remove the pan from the oven and spray the cups with cooking spray or brush with butter. Fill each cup about 3/4 of the way full with the batter. Top the batter in each cup with about 1 teaspoon of shredded coconut.
  4. Place pan in oven and bake for 10 minutes. Do not open the oven door during this time. After 10 minutes, reduce the oven temperature to 350°F and bake for 10 minutes longer.
  5. Remove popovers immediately from the pan and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
  6. Serve immediately with butter (flavored or regular) or jellies and jams.

Notes

A muffin pan can be used in place of the mini popover pan

  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American

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On the 12th of every month, 11 of my blogging friends and I all create recipes around a common theme — all of the recipes have 12 ingredients or less too. This months theme is Brunch Recipes — things that would be wonderful for a Mother’s Day brunch. My Coconut Popovers are my contribution and below are links to all of the other recipes:

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  2. Robert Green says

    I really like the cake made from coconut, it’s really delicious. Your recipe very detail and easy to do, I will try to make it for my family. Thank you!

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  12. Christine says

    These look seriously delicious! I’m swooning over the pan, I need one of these! Would love for you to share your post at Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday! I pin, tweet and share! Have a fabulous week!
    Christine@CherishingaSweetLife

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  13. Tammy @ creativekkids says

    Those are so pretty! I love the pan. Thank you for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I am finally getting around to pinning your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.

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  14. Lou Lou Girls says

    Hello sweet lady! I’m just stopping by to let you know that your paper succulents will be one of our features tonight at our party. Woo Hoo! I hope to see you there at 7! Happy Memorial Day! Lou Lou Girls

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    • brandie says

      Thank you, Kirsten! I would definitely recommend getting a popover pan if you think you’ll enjoy making different varieties or making them often. But you can always use a muffin tin, if needed.

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  23. ashley says

    Yum! I’ve never made popovers before, but I love coconut so I can’t imagine these being bad! They definitely look delicious 🙂

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