Iron Cupcake London March Challenge - The Perfect Pair

This month's theme for the Iron Cupcake London challenge was the perfect pair ie no more than 2 flavours in the sponge and frosting. I have to admit I started thinking of ideas very late- a few days before the challenge. I had quite a few ideas but decided on chocolate and beetroot cupcakes and pecan and orange marmalade cupcakes in the end. I wanted to do something slightly different but not too wild. My other ideas were peanut butter and jam (there were quite a few of these at the challenge so it was a good thing I decided not to), apple and cinnamon, lemon and blueberry, ginger and honey(not sure why as I don't like ginger), chocolate and avocado (got strange looks with this one). The more I thought about it, the more ideas I had but there is a limit to how many cakes I can make or carry! I can't physically carry more than 36 cupcakes on the day so 2 entries is my limit especially since the minimum requirement has changed from 12 cupcakes to 18.
As usual, we had a good time sampling all the delicious cakes. I was so busy eating this time, I didnt take photos of all the cakes on our table! I met some fellow bakers/food bloggers and we shared a table hence got a larger variety of cakes to try. I enjoyed so many of them, it was really hard to pick a favourite (or 2 or 3!)
I think the pictures speak for themselves. Do check out the caked crusader for further details and information on each entry.

My 2 entries Love the caterpillar - it's so cute! The orange flower is really beautiful as well.

  We voted for the vanilla and strawberry which was the runner up.