What says Valentine’s Day better than a bright red cupcake? Nothing! If you are looking for a fun treat this Valentine’s Day whip up a batch of red velvet cupcakes. I made my first batch this with the help of the folks from McCormick. When I started making them I realized that not only had I never made Red Velvet Cupcakes, I’d never even tasted them before! But how can you go wrong with cake?
For those of you who are hesitant to make a recipe with two gallons of red food coloring, one of my Facebook readers suggested using beet juice for the color instead of food coloring.
Red Velvet Cupcakes
(recipe courtesy of McCormick)
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs (room temperature)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 Tablespoons McCormick®Red Food Color
- 2 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
Mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl cream butter and sugar for about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, then mix in sour cream and milk. Mix in food coloring and vanilla. Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix until blended together. Do not over mix. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter and bake for approximately 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened)
- 1/2 stick butter (softened)
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- 2 teaspoons McCormick Vanilla Extract
- 1 pound powdered sugar
Beat together cream cheese, butter, sour cream, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar until it reaches the desired consistency. When the cupcakes are cool, frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.
Red velevt cupcakes sound yummy. will have to try it. My favorite chocolate treat is chocolate cinnamon brownies. I made up a batch and took half of them for a girlfriend weekend. We ate ice cream with them last night. I left some home for hubby and daughter cuz they love them too. I hope there’s still some left!
Brownies . . . ‘nuf said.
We just made some cheesecake. Yum. My favorite baked good is usually the one that’s in front of me. Thank you for the beet juice idea.
Fav baked good: Lemon Riccota Cake…OMG! Delish.
I’ve actually had this page open all weekend. I didn’t even realize there was a giveaway at stake! I couldn’t get my eyes off the cupcakes.
I’m heading to my grocery store today so I can make these.
Chocolate…brownies…chocolate chip cookies, banana bread, pumpkin bread, you name it and I probably love it. Can’t pick a favorite. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite baked good today are the whole wheat bread bowls I made last night to serve homemade cheesy corn and bacon chowder after church today.
I had planned on making raspberry cheesecake for the hubs but I think the little boys would LOVE these. Guess I’ll have to do both
Chocolate Chip Cookies…Oh how I love them…just thinking about them makes my mouth water…
I looove my great grandmother’s hermits. there is just something about molasses and raisins that tastes soooo good!
Wow, they turned out fantastic. I wish I could have one…right NOW!! {pregnancy hormones in overdrive craving cupcakes
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2 TABLESPOONS of food colouring! lol, I’ll go with the beet juice! But otherwise, this might be a recipie I have to try!
I think my favorite baked goods are homemade bread and cookies…oh, you meant a recipe?
I have two daughters who would adore this package – they like all things sprinkles.
I love cupcakes….red velvet with cream cheese icing is a favorite!
Any baked good is fine with me, but I always love some good ol’ fashion birthday cake!
Chocolate Chip Cookies or brownies!
Chocolate Chip cookies!
Love some great coffee cake… who wouldn’t like cake for breakfast? : )
My favorite baked good is Pecan Pie! ITs so yummy!
banana bread is one of my favorites
Favorite baked things are my Grandmama’s Chocolate Chip cookies. She follows the recipe on the back of the bag of chocolate chips but every time they come out so soft!!!! My favorite way for a cookie. We have great laughs over the cookies and she still after all these years doesn’t know how her way of crunchy cookies won’t come up. Happy Valentine’s Day to you and all the Grandmama’s out there!!
So hard to choose!! I guess I’d say favorite baked good would have to be brownies, the corner pieces.
Chocolate cake is my favorite!
We love cake of all kinds. But chocolate chip cookies with white & milk chips and toffee pieces always get my family in a good mood.
Love the red velvet made a guitar cake for my 4 yr olds bday with it
Thanks for passing along this recipe. I’ve only had Red Velvet Cake once, and I wasn’t the biggest fan–and everyone thinks I’m crazy for that! I’ve wanted to try it again, but didn’t even know where to start.
Favorite Baked Good? That’s tough–anything chocolate, or Homemade Carrot Cake.
Blueberry oat muffins made from scratch. They are the best!
My favorite to make and my family’s favorite to receive is sour cream pound cake.
I love red velvet anything! I love cupcakes to
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I love to bake anything. Now that I am caregiver for my 84 year old Dad I don’t have much time to bake. I love brownies and of course red velvet cake. I made big red velvet cookies to give to my Dad’s doctor for Christmas. It was a great hit.
I love carrot cake!