My daughter wanted to make herself a Bundt cake for her birthday because Bundt cakes look like giant donuts. Great…what does that have to do with monster cupcakes? Well, we were planning to celebrate with just the 4 of us at home. Plenty of cake to go around. But two days before her birthday, no fewer than 8 family members informed us that they would be visiting to celebrate her birthday. That’s 12 people for one cake. My daughter didn’t want her entire Bundt cake devoured by family, so I made these cupcakes to go with it. She asked me to pipe dragon scales on top, but they turned out looking like cute fuzzy monsters. She was not upset, we have decided they must be monstrously good cupcakes! They are chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting (I use a confectioners icing recipe and add freeze dried raspberry powder, it’s delicious).
Freeze dried fruit powder- don’t be giving away the secret. Oh wait, it’s ok to do that here. I highly encourage using it. It is a really good addition.
