Butterfly Cake

When I asked my little niece what she wanted for a birthday cake all she said was butterflies. So I made a few chocolate butterflies and made pink cream cheese frosting to ice a red velvet cake.

Red velvet disasters

Is Red Velvet still in trend ?

I guess good flavours should really never go out of trend. Thought lately I have been doing a lot of Red Velvets and sometimes while rushing things tend to go pear shaped... The other day while i was trying to whip up the cream cheese frosting and instead of adding powdered sugar I added flour . How you may ask ... well this happens when you ask someone else to help you sift sugar while you do something else...:) Was not easy to chuck out the lot of cream cheese ...:( However alls well that ends well ..




And then disaster strikes again - Overfilling cupcakes... trying to be too generous is also not a good thing ...

Dragonfruit cupcakes

The fruit of a cactus plant. It has and impressive colour and usually sweet tasting though not with strong flavours. The seed add a bit of crunch to the fruit almost like poppy seeds .. I was wondering what would happen if it was put in a cake ?






the fruit adds interesting colour to the batter.


Topped with cream cheese of course



Inside the cake, most of the cake is not that pink/red that i expected


The taste was pretty ordinary otherwise, just a bit of crunch with the seeds and some colour but not a lot of extra flavour .

Ingredients:

1 egg
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp sodium bicarbonate
3/4 cup mashed dragonfruit
1 tsp orange juice

Method

1. beat the butter and sugar until light
2. add in egg and continue beating
3. Gently fold in flour but do not overmix
4. mix orange juice and sodium bicarbonate to dragon fruit.
5. fold in fruit to the flour mixture