Cupcake of the Month: Red Velvet

Here's the Cupcake of the Month!! :D

Ingredients- Cupcakes:

1 package yellow cake mix

2 tbsp cocoa

5 large eggs

½ cup vegetable oil

1 cup buttermilk

2 bottles red food coloring (1 oz bottles)

Frosting:

1 package cream cheese softened

¼ cup butter softened

2 ½- 2 ¼ cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions- Cupcakes:

-Preheat oven according to cake mix directions

-Beat cake mix and the rest of the ingredients at low for 2 minutes

-Spoon batter into 24 muffin cups 2/3 way full

-Bake according to package

Frosting:

-Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy

-Gradually add sugar, beating until smooth

-Stir in vanilla until blended

These are soooo delicious! Be careful with the dye though because it will stain your hands/clothes. These are also a shortcut version because we used the cake mix, but you could make legit red velvet for it if you have the time!

Cupcake of the Month: Coconut Cherry

Here is our first recipe for this blog!! Caitlin has a calendar that has a different cupcake recipe for each month, and January's is Coconut Cherry Cupcakes! Enjoy!

Ingredients- Cupcakes:

1 stick butter (softened)

½ cup sugar

2 tbsp milk

2 eggs

5/8 cup self-rising white flour

½ tsp baking powder

2/3 cup dry unsweetened coconut

4 ounces candied cherries (quartered)

12 maraschino cherries

Frosting:

4 tbsp butter softened

1 cup confectioner’s sugar

1 tbsp milk

Directions- Cupcakes:

-Preheat oven to 350*F

-Put in 12 cupcake liners

-Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy

-Stir in milk gradually, gradually add eggs and beat until well mixed

-Stir in flour and baking powder

-Fold in coconut and quartered cherries

-Bake for 20-25 minutes

Frosting:

-Beat butter until fluffy

-Sift in confectioner’s sugar and beat till well mixed, gradually beating in the milk

-Apply frosting and maraschino cherry

Notes::

We couldn’t find candied cherries, so we used canned cherries in water. Drain the water and cut the cherries in half. We also couldn’t find unsweetened coconut, so we just used sweetened, and it’s turned out ok so it’s more of a personal preference thing.

My oven also doesn’t have numbers on the knob, so it was set somewhere between 350*-400*, and they were done after 20 minutes