One time I lived with this girl. We will call her Mrs. A-Corn. She really enjoyed eating
Entenmann's Raspberry Danish Twists. She loved them sooo much that she knew the date and time the truck would deliver the fresh ones to the Harris Teeter across the street from our house. Gradually with the help of 2 other friends I weaned her off this addiction. So when we started planning her bridal shower, I thought maybe we should buy these Raspberry Danish Twists and cut them up in to bite sized pieces and serve them at her shower. But then I remembered how far she's come since her addiction and decided to go another route.
I remembered that she likes red velvet cupcakes. So I confirmed with her fiance and began looking for recipes. Everyone said for me to just use a box but I decided to go all out. Go big or go home. I found
this recipe (you have to scroll down a little) and thought it seemed manageable. MoYoung and I decided that mini cupcakes would be better for a shower. That way the ladies could eat 5 or 10 without feeling bad because eating 5 mini desserts is always way healthier than eating one regular sized dessert. I followed the recipe pretty much but used a mini muffin tin and cooked them for about 10-12 minutes each or when the tooth pick came out clean. Also the frosting made about 3 times as much as I actually needed for the mini cupcakes.
So what was my biggest mistake? Well I purchased ONE mini muffin tin, which makes 12 mini cupcakes at a time. We ended up with about 70 mini cupcakes which was a lot of batches. So MoYoung and I were up til 1 AM baking these puppies. With a special appearance by Beezus5, B and some wine, it didn't really seem like it took that long.
The next day we focused on icing. I taught Mo to use my
special icing tool and she managed to really excel at it. We added some blue and yellow sprinkles (the wedding colors) and we were done. I think they turned out pretty awesome. We only ended up taking about half of them to the shower but by last night most of them were gone from my kitchen. Also I may or may not be mildly allergic to red food coloring. I sprouted a couple hives during the cooking and tasting process but that's not really that strange (for me). And there was a full bottle of food coloring in this. Oh well. They are called red velvet for a reason.
PS-I had weird dreams about cupcakes last night.
PPS-And I know my face does not look super attractive in the photo above but I needed a good action photo.
So what was my biggest mistake? Well I purchased ONE mini muffin tin, which makes 12 mini cupcakes at a time. We ended up with about 70 mini cupcakes which was a lot of batches. So MoYoung and I were up til 1 AM baking these puppies. With a special appearance by Beezus5, B and some wine, it didn't really seem like it took that long. 
