{"id":170,"date":"2009-06-14T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-06-14T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:30:27","slug":"homemade-by-me-red-velvet-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Homemade (by me!) Red Velvet cupcakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, next stop on my cupcake tasting experiment!<\/p>\n

Today is a grand experiment! I have never baked cupcakes from scratch – no boxed mix! There are no store-bought red velvet cake mixes that I know of (Sprinkles sells one I think though) so I figured go with making something I couldn’t get a mix for anyway. Especially since I won’t attempt chocolate cupcakes from scratch as Dough Boy and Betty do such a GREAT job with their nummy mixes :)<\/p>\n

I found this recipe on www.pinchmysalt.com when I was searching for a homemade cream cheese frosting recipe. It seemed easy-ish (knock on wood…) Not toooooo many ingredients or crazy prep work.<\/p>\n

My hand mixer is in Tahoe so I will be breaking out the Kitchen Aid countertop mixer that we got as a wedding gift. 10 years ago. And I think this might be the first time I’ve used it :) Excellent maiden voyage (after I clean the layer of dust off of it!!)\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n

Here are the ingredients:<\/p>\n

\"Red

Red Velvet cupcake ingredients<\/p><\/div>\n

You need to use room temperature eggs and buttermilk (clearly diet cupcakes…) and softened butter so plan that a little early (unlike me who had to wait a while after planning to start!) :)<\/p>\n

Had to sift and then re-sift the flour. Between this and the cheese grating from last week, I learned to switch off hands doing it so both the left and the right are equally as sore. I wonder if boys do that too :-0<\/p>\n

So you make the red part of red velvet using red dye (I read other ways to do this in other recipes but I like this recipe.) Oh, and..so…red DYE stains your fingers…go figure :)<\/p>\n

\"Red

Red part of recipe<\/p><\/div>\n

Then you mix, and mix and mix some more of the various bowls of ingredients (the butter\/sugar mixture, the flour mixture, the red and cocoa mixture (above) and then the the vinegar and baking soda (science class time – it fizzes!) mixture last.\u00a0 p.s this mi<\/strong>xer was AWESOME. To quote Ferris Bueller “<\/strong>It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.”<\/p>\n

\"Batter

Batter up!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then you fill your cupcake pans using an ice cream scoop.\u00a0 At first I thought that was goofy but it works great!!<\/p>\n

\"pre-cooked<\/p>\n

Now you bake for 20 minutes and voila! 24 naked cupcakes!<\/p>\n

\"Naked

Naked cupcakes<\/p><\/div>\n

Now I let them cool for a while (so I could get other chores in the house done!) and then frosted them with the same cream cheese frosting I tested a couple weeks ago, also from www.pinchmysalt.com:\\. I used red sprinkles to decorate :)<\/p>\n

\"YUM!

YUM! - Done!<\/p><\/div>\n

Storm wanted to help with the cupcakes….<\/p>\n

\"Storm

Storm wants to help frost cupcakes..<\/p><\/div>\n

His argument was that these were not chocolate! I told him we had to use cocoa so no dice..he asked why I didn’t make pupcakes then. Good question!<\/p>\n

I just tried one…yum….<\/p>\n

\"Bite!\"

Bite!<\/p><\/div>\n

Would I make them again JUST for me? No..I’d just drive to Sprinkles for a cupcake. But if I needed to bring cupcakes to something, it was someone’s birthday or someone wanted them – yes, they are quite tasty :)<\/p>\n

Now I am putting 3 in tupperware for home and the rest into other tupperware to take to the office to make them fat :)<\/p>\n

Recipes here: http:\/\/pinchmysalt.com\/2009\/02\/04\/red-velvet-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting-recipe\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, next stop on my cupcake tasting experiment! Today is a grand experiment! I have never baked cupcakes from scratch – no boxed mix! There are no store-bought red velvet cake mixes that I know of (Sprinkles sells one I think though) so I figured go with making something I couldn’t get a mix for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[60,59,145,113,77],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cream-cheese-frosting","tag-cupcakes","tag-ferris-bueller","tag-red-velvet","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}