Foolish Morsel

I love my cake!  Thank you so much, Willie, you’re a sweetie and a half!

©willie baronet

Today I made Red Velvet Cupcakes, and you’ll look at the snapshots and say “those aren’t really red.”  You’re right, they’re not, because I didn’t want to put red food coloring in the batter (anyone with boys should be able to tell you that food dyes aren’t the best thing for them), and I searched high and low for a recipe that used beets, as I’d heard that was the authentic way to do it, and found one here.  Let me just say, these minis taste outstanding!!  And because cream cheese frosting with pecans is a traditional way the large cake is served, that’s what I did with these minis, however, the cake got a bit lost with the frosting, it’s delicate and earthy, so next time I’ll use less…These are actually super yummy without frosting!  Oh, and the batter, there was a ton of it, definitely could make three nine inch cakes!!

I thought I’d post some of the cupcakes I’ve made recently…

What better way to kick off a new blog full of sweets than on my birthday!!  I’ll be posting cuppies today, red velvet, don’t know how good they’ll be, but I’ll be sure you let you all know!

And my book drawing is today, over on Gee That’s Swell, good luck to all those who commented!!  

Thanks so much for visiting!

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