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Valentines Day is meant to spend with the people you love and the people who love you. There are many ways to show someone you care, and the more creative the better! Why not make ten red velvet cupcakes for valentines day and spell “I love you” on them. Each valentines cupcake will have a different letter on it and there will be two cupcakes for spacing. If you make a full dozen you can have one for before the phrase and one for after.

My red velvet cupcakes exist as one of the most delicious and
unique varieties of cupcakes to date. don’t be mislead by the red velvet, red velvet cupcakes are a rich and chocolate-y cupcake. They are usually frosted with cream cheese frosting, sometimes on occasion they are iced with boiled frosting.

Red velvet might seem a strange name for these cupcakes. Yet, the answer is a no-brainer. A handful of rumors have spread about the origin of the name. And no, traditionally food coloring is not what gave red velvet cupcakes their red color. Tale has it that during WWI due to the sugar shortage, women were using sugar beets to in place of sugar. This turned the cake a reddish brown. This rumor is untrue. Sugar beets are white and that wasn’t what allowed red velvet cupcakes their distinctive color. Instead it is a reaction between the unprocessed cocoa powder and the acid in the buttermilk that lends the color to these amazing cupcakes. At first, cocoa was of a greater lighter color and in effect we were able to see the red in the red velvet cupcakes. Now cocoa is much darker, so commonly a huge amount of food coloring is combined into the recipe. I like to make them red in the original way, as food coloring is a health hazard and no need to make your red velvet cupcake a health hazard!

As for the frostings, boiled frosting is a delicious frosting that is light and at the same time thick and creamy. It goes well with your red velvet cupcakes. Though most people do prefer the more common cream cheese frosting.