Skillet To Plate https://www.skillettoplate.com A Concoction Of Food And Photography Fri, 20 May 2022 18:11:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.11 Coconut Passionfruit Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting https://www.skillettoplate.com/coconut-passionfruit-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting/ Fri, 20 May 2022 18:11:10 +0000 https://www.skillettoplate.com/?p=4666 Delicious moist coconut cupcakes made with @suncorefoods Marigold Passion Fruit Supercolor Powder & Seeds slathered with cream cheese frosting and topped with a beautiful dried pineapple flower! If you are a fan of coconut and passion fruit flavors you’ll love these cupcakes! 

Coconut passionfruit cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
Coconut passionfruit cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

Here you go with the recipe! 

Ingredients

CupCake:

Cake flour – 2  cups

Granulated sugar – 1  cup

Baking powder-1 tsp

Large Eggs – 3 ( room temperature)

Suncore foods passion fruit superfood – 2 tbsp

Olive oil-1/2 cup

Suncore foods rose Salt-1/2  tsp

Coconut milk ( tinned one) – 1 cup

Vanilla extract – 2 tsp

Dessicated Coconut flakes -1/4 cup

Cream cheese frosting :

Unsalted butter- 3 sticks  ( softened to room temperature)

Cream cheese – 3/4 cup ( softened to room temperature)

Confectioners sugar – 7- 8 cups

Heavy cream- 1  tbsp

Salt- a generous pinch 

Vanilla extract – 1 tsp

Optional

Pineapple flowers for topping 

Passion fruit pulp for topping

Method :

Preheat oven to 350f.

Line a standard muffin Tin with liners.  Set aside. 

In a bowl mix together the dry ingredients- flour, baking powder, salt, passion fruit flakes , dessicated coconut  and set aside. 

In a large bowl using a hand mixer beat together the eggs, oil, sugar , vanilla extract, until just  combined.

Now dump in all the dry ingredients and mix well using a spatula gently . Lastly, fold in the coconut milk using a spatula until just mixed. and fill the batter into the cupcake liners until 2/3 full and bake for 20 mins or till done.

For the cream cheese  frosting , Beat the butter and cream cheese for 2 mins. Then add the powdered sugar, salt , vanilla , heavy cream and beat for 1 to 2 mins until smooth. Frost as desired. Drizzle the cupcakes with some passion fruit pulp and top it with pineapple flower . 

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Halloween Monster Cakes https://www.skillettoplate.com/halloween-monster-cakes/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:07:32 +0000 https://www.skillettoplate.com/?p=4506 For this year’s Halloween, I decided to make these monster cakes with gorgeous superfood colors by Suncore Foods! I wanted these monsters to be cute rather than scary. And I’ve used a lot of colors all organic, natural, healthy, and works beautifully with both buttercream and fondant! Don’t they look adorable?? The worst part is I couldn’t stop photographing them! 🙈

HALLOWEEN MONSTER CAKES

Now for the recipe, I’ve made chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and some store-bought ready-made white fondant for decoration. The chocolate cupcake recipe is very simple and it doesn’t need any fancy mixer. It’s a one-bowl mix and bake cake!  The buttercream recipe is a standard one and never fails me!

HALLOWEEN MONSTER CAKES

I’ve used piping tip 234 to pipe the monster hair. 

If you are making cupcakes use 233 tip for monsters hair.For the fondant decorations, you can mix the superfood color of your choice( I’ve listed what I’ve used under the fondant decorations-  ingredients ) with the white fondant and make your monster decorations. To make the black fondant, I’ve added black cocoa powder the white fondant and made the eyeballs and the mouth of the monster.

HALLOWEEN MONSTER CAKES

You can omit the fondant decorations and use some candy eyeballs instead and decorate the cakes. 

HALLOWEEN MONSTER CAKES

This is the recipe:

Monster Cakes- Olive oil Chocolate Cake/ cupcakes with Superfood buttercream.

Ingredients:

Cake

All-purpose flour- 21/4 cup

Granulated sugar- 21/4 cup

Cocoa powder- 11/4 cup

Baking powder – 2tsp

Baking soda – 1/4 tsp

Water – 11/2 cup

Espresso powder- 2 tsp

Vanilla extract – 2 tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Large Eggs- 4 ( room temperature)

Olive oil- 1 cup

Buttercream:

Unsalted butter- 1 cup ( softened to room temperature)

Confectioners sugar- 4.5cups

Heavy cream- 1 tbsp or 2 tbsp depending on the consistency

Salt- a generous pinch 

For  blue buttercream

Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder – 2 tsp – 3 tsp

For yellow buttercream

Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder- 2-3 tsp 

For Green buttercream

Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder- 1 tsp

Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder- 2-3 tsp 

For pink buttercream:

Suncore foods red velvet beet powder – 1 tsp

Suncore foods purple sweet potato powder- 1 tsp

Fondant decorations( optional) 

Black cocoa powder 

White ready-made fondant

Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder

Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder

Candy eyeballs 

Method:

Preheat oven to 350f.

Line 3 6” baking pans with parchment paper.

Take all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat all the ingredients until it’s very well mixed using an electric mixer. Make sure to scrape the bottom while beating.

Divide the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 20-25 mins till done.

For the buttercream, beat the butter for 2 mins. Then add the other ingredients listed under buttercream and beat for 1 to 2 mins until fluffy. Then add the color of your choice listed in the buttercream ingredients and beat well till the color is well incorporated. Frost as desired.

I’ve used piping tip 234 to pipe the monster hair. 

For the fondant decorations, you can mix the superfood color of your choice( I’ve listed what I’ve used under the fondant decorations-  ingredients ) with the white fondant and make your monster decorations. To make the black fondant, I’ve added black cocoa powder the white fondant and made the eyeballs and the mouth of the monster.

You can omit the fondant decorations and use some candy eyeballs instead and decorate the cakes. 

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