You know it's going to be good when the batter takes like cookie dough...I found this recipe for pink velvet cupcakes and Baking Perfection and thought it would be the perfect gifts for the Mom's I knew. I baked these and stacked these inside of jars.
Pink Velvet Cupcake
Cupcake Ingredients: 1 c. butter (softened), pink food coloring, 3 eggs, 2 t. vanilla, 2 1/2 c. flour, 1 1/2 t baking powder, 1/4 t. baking soda, 1/2 t. salt, 1 c. buttermilk
Instructions: In the first bowl, cream butter until fluffy. Add pink dye a little at a time and mix until you get your desired pink. Add vanilla.
In a second bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Pour half into the butter mix, pour in half of the butter milk and mix. Repeat with the second half of the dry mix and buttermilk. Beat until well combined.
Add into lined cupcake pan (2/3 full). I made about 20 out of this batter.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
Icing Recipe: Mix together 2 sticks of butter (softened), 6 c. of powdered sugar, pinch of salt, 3 T vanilla, and 2-4 T of milk.
Top put these in a jar, take two cupcakes and cut it in half.
Press the bottom into the bottom of the jar...
Place icing in a ziplock, snip off the edge of a ziplock bag and fill it with icing, pipe it over the cupcake.
Add another layer of cupcake (sometimes I take another cupcake and use half of that to fill in the middle layer since the jar is a little wider here).
Pipe on a final layer, add sprinkles...
Place a lid on top....
I added tags (found a cute, free printable at sunshine's blog-
here), and baking twine and forks....for eating on the go. You never know when you need to take along your emergency cupcake rationing.
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