Dragon Fruit Cake~ Ombre Effect
 
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You will be wise to use deeper pans for the Ombre effect such as a Bundt Pan, Cupcakes or divide the batter between 2- 7" Pans
Serves: serves 10ppl
Ingredients
  • For the Cake:
  • All Purpose Flour 2 cup (250g)
  • Cake Flour 1 cup (120g) *see notes above
  • Pink Pitaya Powder 4 Tablespoons
  • Baking Powder 4 teaspoons
  • Salt 1 teaspoon
  • Granulated Sugar 1¾ cup (350g)
  • Vegetable Oil ⅔ cup (160ml)
  • Apple Sauce 4 Tablespoons (56g) *or more oil if you are not using applesauce
  • Plant Milk *I use soy milk 2 cups (480ml)
  • Vanilla Extract 2 teaspoons (10ml)
  • 1 Recipe Your Favorite Buttercream * I am using ABC
  • Pink Pitaya Powder 4 teaspoons + 4 teaspoons hot water
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F
  2. Grease and parchment paper your cake pan(s)
  3. In a large mixing bowl combine the oil, vanilla, plant milk and applesauce together in a large mixing bowl and whisk smooth
  4. Sift together the flours, sugar, pink pitaya powder, salt & baking powder and then add to the liquids in the bowl.
  5. Whisk vigorously until smooth, about 40 strokes
  6. Pour into the prepared pans and bake for 25-30 minutes for the 7" layers (longer for Bundt cakes and shorter for cupcakes) or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  7. Cool in the cake pans, then flip onto a cooling rack to cool to cold
  8. Prepare your favorite buttercream recipe and then separate it in half.
  9. Half will be white for the filling
  10. Adding poppy seeds to represent the seeds of a dragon fruit is completely optional
  11. The other half of the buttercream for the icing will get the pink pitaya powder paste ~ simply reconstituted pitaya powder with the hot water, add to the buttercream when completely cold
  12. **Save out a couple tablespoons of the pitaya paste for the watercolor effect decoration
Notes
Dragon fruit cream cake can be kept at room temperature for up to 3 days

For longer storage keep refrigerated for up to 1 week.
Recipe by Gretchen's Vegan Bakery at https://www.gretchensveganbakery.com/dragon-fruit-cake/