My red velvet cake recipe is a family recipe passed down from Cassidy's Great Mam-ma, so I won't be sharing it. Sorry! The cream cheese frosting is a recipe I just made up by throwing stuff in a bowl. It's just butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. It would be really delicious to eat a big bowl of it by the spoonful while relaxing in a candlelit bath. I would never do that, though. That's just a fantasy of someone who's been on a diet for a really long time!
These cupcakes were really good. However, cupcakes with cream cheese frosting is not how I grew up eating red velvet cake. It's meant to be in a 3-layer cake layered with this amazing cooked butter icing (also a secret family recipe). The cooked butter icing is not thick enough to be piped onto a cupcake, though, and my sweet friend asked for cream cheese frosting. She had a baby. She should get whatever she wants.
Combining cocoa and red food coloring
Combining shortening and sugar
Adding the red cocoa mixture
Mixing
Delicious red chocolate buttermilk cake batter
The cupcakes are out of the oven!
Piped with cream cheese frosting
A little creativity . . . baked some cupcakes right inside these baby food jars,
piped the frosting in, screwed on the lid, and tied a blue ribbon for
the new little baby boy.
Cassidy takes a taste.
It's good! It's good!
"Get in my belly!"
Mommy and Cassidy snuggle baby Ryland
while his mommy has a cupcake.
Cassidy's Cream Cheese Frosting
2 blocks cream cheese
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
6 cups powdered sugar (more or less depending on desired consistency)
