We are having our annual block party today. I usually make some kind of dessert to pass around the neighborhood. I decided to make my Red Velvet Cupcakes. This is one of the best Red Velvet Cake recipes in my opinion. It is moist and delicious. I have put a dollop of chocolate Ganache and I made a cream cheese frosting with a red candy melt. Is your mouth watering? If so, I have done good!
Recipe:
Dry ingredients:3 1/2 T. cocoa powder (unsweetened)
2 cups cake flour
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
2 tsp. almond extract
sift dry ingredients on parchment or wax paper
Wet ingredients:2 sticks butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs room temperature
1/4 cup red food coloring
1cup sour cream room temperature (full fat)
1cup heavy cream room temperature
1 Tablespoon white vinegar
In mixer blend all wet ingredients except sour cream, heavy cream and vinegar put in separate mixing bowl and blend. In mixer add butter, coloring, sugar,eggs and beat until white and fluffy. Slowly add 1/3 of sour cream mixture and alternate with flour mixture in 3 separate application. Bake at 350 degrees about 20-25 minutes until the top springs back when touched. Do not overbake or you will dry out your cupcakes.
I use large muffin tin and line it with large paper cupcake liners. Makes 12 jumbo or 24 regular.
Frosting:2 sticks butter
16 oz. cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract
pinch salt
Blend in mixer until fluffy.
Ganache:1 cup semi-sweet chocolate
1 cup heavy cream
Heat milk, bring to boil and remove from heat add chocolate. Work with a whish gently stir the chocolate and cream until the chocolate is fully melted. This will take a minute and you will get a deep chocolate rich sauce. Allow this to cool until you get a thicker spreadable consistency. Spread a Tablespoon on top and pipe out a dollop of Frosting.
Going out to have some fun!!!
posted by: Angela
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We are having our annual block party today. I usually make some kind of dessert to pass around the neighborhood. I decided to make my Red Velvet Cupcakes. This is one of the best Red Velvet Cake recipes in my opinion. It is moist and delicious. I have put a dollop of chocolate Ganache and I made a cream cheese frosting with a red candy melt. Is your mouth watering? If so, I have done good!
We have gotten a request for a Peaches and Double Heavy Cream and Goats Milk Soap. We do not make this particular soap often. It is a very tempermental and difficult soap to make. We think that the actual peach puree in the soap gives us this problem. We only make this soap for our very best customers because we have been known to lose several batches in the process. This soap is double the price because of the lossess and trouble it causes to make. This is a superfatted moisturizing bar of soap and is heavenly. Heavy cream and goats milk are simply luscious bars of soap. They are so well worth it in the end! My personal favorite and many of our customers is the Milk and Mint Heavy Cream and Goats Milk Soap. It is just wonderful.
Six layers of white cake drenched with raspberry syrup, each layer is filled with white chocolate pastry cream, berries and covered in french buttercream. The topping is mixed berries and a chocolate butterfly on the side.
I know what your thinking, is this a food blog or a soap blog??? Well, both. Soap and food some how they go together, at least for Melanie and I. This cake was not for my Mom but a good friend's Mom. She gets a couple of soap bars from us as a gift, too. All our friends and family get a cake and some soap. Not a bad deal. They are both consumable and enjoyable.
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