Albino Dragonfly Cake Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. No, this is not a typo. This is a slow bake cake.
• 2. Grease and flour one 9x13 or three 8" round cake pans. Use liners if making cupcakes.
• 3. Put all the ingredients in a large bowl.
• 4. Mix till smooth.
• 5. Pour in pan(s).
• 6. Bake one 9x13 cake, one hour. (Check at 40 min.) Or until toothpick comes out clean. Bake three 8" round cakes, 40 min. Or until toothpick comes out clean. Bake cupcakes, 30-35 min. Or until toothpick comes out clean.
• 7. I have always had trouble with being able to consistently make a creamy chocolate frosting, until I found this tip on the internet... wait for it... melt the butter. lol So, for the frosting, melt the butter ;) stir in the cocoa's till smooth add powdered sugar and half&half alternately till smooth. stir in vanilla, and salt. Add the corn syrup, stir till creamy. This will frost an eight inch three layer cake, cut recipe in half for 9x13 or cupcakes

Steps:

• 1. Make cake as per directions here, https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cake/albino-dragonfly-cake.html
• 2. After cake has cooled on racks (about 30 minutes), place in freezer while you prepare the filling and whip the cream.
• 3. Add strawberries, blueberries, sugar and tapioca starch to food processor or blender. Chop on high for about a minute or until thoroughly blended. Note: if you can't find tapioca starch, you can buy Minute Tapioca and grind it up in a spice or coffee grinder and use it as the starch. Set aside till needed.
• 4. To your mixer, add heavy cream, vanilla, 1 tbsp sugar, and tapioca starch. Whip until medium peaks form. Place in refrigerator until needed.
• 5. Remove cake from freezer and cut each layer in half.
• 6. Place 1st half layer on cake plate. Fill a pastry bag with whipped cream, and pipe it around edge. Fill with berry mixture. Repeat until you have 3 half layers edged with whipped cream and filled with berries.
• 7. Place final half layer on top. Pipe whipped cream around edge. Then starting on the edge, pipe whipped cream in a curved line, stop in the center of cake. Continue until you have five curved lines ending in the center.
• 8. Carefully fill the spaces in between with berry mixture. Spread or pipe remaining whipped cream on the sides of cake.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 3 (8-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Divide batter evenly among 6 small bowls, about 1 1/3 cups each.
• Using food colors, tint batter in 1 bowl blue, 1 bowl red, 1 bowl green, 1 bowl yellow, 1 bowl orange (using red and yellow) and 1 bowl purple (using blue and red).
• Refrigerate 3 colors of batter until ready to bake. Pour remaining 3 colors of batter into cake pans.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center and begins to pull away from side of pan. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling racks; cool completely.
• Wash cake pans. Bake and cool remaining 3 cake layers as directed.
• In large bowl, beat shortening and butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light yellow. On low speed, gradually beat in powdered sugar. Beat in vanilla. Add milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until frosting is smooth. Beat on high speed until light and fluffy.
• Trim rounded tops off cakes to level, if needed. On serving plate, place purple cake layer. Spread with frosting to within 1/4 inch of edge. Repeat with blue, green, yellow, orange and red cake layers. Spread light coat of frosting on top and side of cake to seal in crumbs, then frost with remaining frosting.