Kelly's Red Velvet Birthday Cupcake!
By
Maggie May Schill
@NakedMaggie
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Happy birthday Kelly!!!!
I poured a portion of the batter into an individual coffee cup to make a birthday cake cupcake!!! Only have to fill an oven resistant mug half way up with batter and bake for about 20-25 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
I poured a portion of the batter into an individual coffee cup to make a birthday cake cupcake!!! Only have to fill an oven resistant mug half way up with batter and bake for about 20-25 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Ingredients
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FOR CAKE BATTER:
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2 1/2 call purpose flour
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1 tspbaking soda
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1/2 tspbaking poweder
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1/2 tspsalt
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1 csalted butter, softened
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1 1/2 csugar
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1 cwhole milk
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3eggs
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2-3 ozred food coloring
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1 tspwhite vinegar
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1 cwhite chocolate, chopped
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FOR CREME GLAZE:
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1 cwhole milk
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1 tspvanilla extract
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2egg yolks
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1 Tbspcorn starch
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2 Tbspsugar
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1/4 cwhite chocolate, chopped
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CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
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1 lbcream cheese, softened
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1 cunsalted butter, softened
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3 cconfectioners' sugar
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1 1/2 tspvanilla extract
How to Make Kelly's Red Velvet Birthday Cupcake!
- Method for Cake Batter:
Preheat oven to 350'F
Grease or line cupcake pans. ( If you are using a coffee mug like I did, there's no reason to lubricate the mug.) - In small sauce pan, melt 1 cup of white chocolate in a double boiler until tempered.
- In large mixing bowl, sift together: flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a 2nd mixing bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, vinegar, food coloring and vanilla extract.
- Beat melted chocolate and butter together, then mix the chocolate butter mixture into the dry ingredients.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a hand or standing mixer. Beat until smooth. Do not over beat, you want your red velvet cake to be dense and not overly airy.
- Pour batter evenly into cupcake pans.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
- Method for Creme Glaze:
Scald your milk with the sugar and white chocolate in a small sauce pan over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally so the milk doesn't scorch. Scald until white chocolate is completely melted. - In a small mixing bowl cream your yolks with your cornstarch until it makes a paste.
- Slowly stir boiled milk into your egg mixture while beating vigorously.
- Add vanilla extract and stir.
- Once cream is smooth put back into sauce pan and cook on low heat until it thicken. (Add a splash of milk if your sauce gets too thick in the cooking process.)
- For Cream Cheese Frosting:
MIX ALL THE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER!!!!! - Assembly!!!!
Once cakes are cooled, dip or drench each cake in the creme glaze.
Frost each cake with cream cheese frosting as you desire. I chose to garnish each cake with red sugar.
ENJOY!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY!!!!!!
