Red Velvet Cupcake and Red Velvet Cake Comparisons
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Red Velvet
Published on February 12, 2011
Published on February 10, 2011
The McCormick red velvet cupcakes were a hit, but not with Fuzz’s class. Instead of taking them to school, I served them to Fuzz’s girl scout troop. The girls enjoyed them, but I was anxious to try another recipe because while I liked the McCormick red velvet cupcakes, I thought they were too chocolaty to be true red velvet. If you like your red velvet cake really chocolaty, you’ll be happy, but if I want chocolate then I make a chocolate cake. Red velvet should be red.
And thus the red velvet cupcake quest continues.
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Published on February 10, 2011
Fuzz’s class is having their Valentine’s Day party this week and I offered to bring some treats. The problem is, I can’t decide what. Fourth graders are opinionated and like interesting things, so I have to choose carefully. Thinking red velvet cupcake cones might be fun, I made a test batch this afternoon using a [...]
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Published on February 8, 2011
It’s similar to the original Waldorf Astoria version, but uses butter instead of shortening and cake flour instead of all-purpose or White Lily. If you compare this recipe with a few others, you can see it has less fat. It’s not quite as heavy textured and if made right, it still comes out moist enough. What I like best about this one is that it’s got the traditional red velvet flavor with very little chocolate and lots of whatever it is that comes together and makes red velvet taste like red velvet.
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Published on November 5, 2010
After spending a few days of fun and sun in Chicago, we returned home late yesterday refreshed and rejuvenated. I had chores to attend to, but was dying to bake and couldn’t ignore the fact we had self-rising flour, red food coloring and buttermilk all on hand at the same time. That rarely happens, so I [...]
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Published on August 12, 2010
Last week I made a batch of red velvet cupcakes. They were good, but I thought they could be better and decided that over the next few months I will be baking and reviewing more red velvet cupcakes. To help me with this very important research, Louise has kindly volunteered to do some guest blogging with [...]
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Published on March 14, 2010
