Jan 26, 2010
Bossy’s Favorite Things
Exactly what were we all doing before red velvet cupcakes hit the scene so completely? It doesn’t seem that long ago, and now here they are and here they are and here and here and here.
Bossy was surprised to learn the thing that separates red velvet cake from chocolate cake is food coloring. Really?
Up until 3 years ago I refused to try Red Velvet cupcakes until I found out it was basically red chocolate.
Actually had a Red Velvet cupcake this past weekend – I was very dissapointed to find out they switched the traditional cream cheese frosting for Vanilla – not the same – not the same at all.
red velvet cupcakes are yum, but i have found recently that coconut cupcakes? are TO DIE.
$2.25 for one stinkin’ cupcake?? Pardon me while I go back to my cave.
What were we doing? Well, for one thing, not spending more than two dollars on ONE cupcake. Yikes. I hope it was a really, really good cupcake.
I’ve not been fond of red velvet cake since one of my daughter’s friends had his groom’s cake in the shape of an armadillo…it was a red velvet cake with the cream cheese frosting. We call it icing in Texas. Anyway, we thought the cake was pretty gross. Looked like road kill or something. Something to remember your wedding day for sure.
those cupcakes should come with a “screw the homeless” bumper sticker. $2.25!
Oh yes, lots and lots of red food coloring. I’ve only tried red velvet cake once and all I could think about was all that food coloring… haven’t been able to make myself try it since.
LOL at the armadillo cake, AmberStar!
In Bossy’s Poverty Party defense, she didn’t actually purchase one of these cupcakes. And, heh, photos snuck without permission are free!
Did that sound like Bossy stole the photo from the internet? No, she meant she took the photo without permission. She snapped the photo without permission. Oh whatever, goodnight. Oh wait, it’s only morning.
Somehow they taste better to me when they’re red.
I am put off by the whole bottle of red food coloring it takes just to make one cake. And I’m also with AmberStar (comment above), after seeing the armadillo grooms cake (must be a Texas thing) with the cream cheese icing, I can never see red velvet anything without picturing a dead armadillo on the side of the road….
Nice pic tho, lol!
I mean your picture, not the picture of a dead armadillo. OK?
The movie Steel Magnolias made the red velvet armadillo groom cake famous. Groom cakes are frequently loathsome…I think red velvet cake is loathsome, too. But perhaps that’s because we say it “Rehd Veh-vet” down heah.
I love all cupcakes, they are the perfect treat. I’m not a huge red velvet fan, but wouldn’t kick ‘em out of bed.
One day my boy thought I said: “red belted cake”, so that’s what we call it.
And then there are the salted caramel cupcakes. Which are heaven.
Really.
Geek chimes in: If the red velvet cupcakes are made with vinegar and real Dutch Cocoa, there is a chemical reaction that causes the red to come out of the cocoa….no red dye needed.
I saw red velvet COOKIES at my local grocery story the other day. I think this means chocolate cookies with massive amounts of red dye #40.
My aunt made a multilayered red velvet cake one Christmas (with whipped cream frosting) and it was gorgeous and delicious. The next year I improved on it by using green food color in half of it and
TA DAA. You guessed it, alternating red and green layers separated by lovely white whipped cream – so festive!
Even better than red velvet cupcakes are red velvet cake balls (http://www.bakerella.com/red-velvet-cake-balls/). Fabulously delicious, deliciously fabulous.
Biscotti.