It's not all mangoes all the time here at Château Bastek: there
are other fruits in the world, after all. The tropical variety just love to loaf about in my fridge, wedged between the leftover vindaloo and the chickpeas, like vandals on a smoke break. The papaya, that layabout, must have burned through at least one pack of cigarettes in there, and let's not even get into what the bananas on my counter have been up to. I'm saving them from themselves, really.
Luckily I had a recipe lying around tailor-made for these little monsters. Enter Papaya-Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream Frosting, stealing the lime light from Cousin Mango for the evening.
Left, just out of the oven; and right, having icing dolloped on top.
I am lucky enough to have friends that drop by on a regular basis to clean out my refrigerator, otherwise I would have to turn these cupcakes out on the street. The recipe that supposedly yielded twenty-four went behind my back with the milkman and had another six on the sly, so I ended up with a solid thirty cupcakes. Good thing Archana, Megan, and Upasana came to the rescue, or I might be in police custody right now.
"Lime light" - I see what you did there, Miss Stephanie.