Ingredients
1 C all purpose flour
1/2 C unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
6 T butter, softened
3/4 C sugar, plus 2 T
1 egg, room temp
2/3 C milk, at room temp
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 tsp vanilla
2 T mini semisweet chocolate chips
2 T chopped toasted walnuts or pecans
Ganache frosting, recipe follows
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt, set aside. Using mixer, cream the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until pale yellow, about 1 minute. Add the egg and stir just until combined. Set aside.
In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese, 2 T sugar, and vanilla. Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts.
Fill prepared cupcake liners with enough chocolate batter to just cover the bottom. Add a dollop of the cream cheese filling to each, then top with remaining batter (cream cheese filling should not be visible).
bake for 17 - 20 minutes. Let cupcakes stand in the pan for 3 min, remove and allow to cool completely on rack.
Chocolate Ganache Frosting
3/4 C semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 C heavy cream
1/2 tsp instant espresso powder, optional
Place heat proof bowl over a pot of simmering water, and whisk together the chocolate chips, cream and espresso powder. Continue whisking until chocolate is melted and the mixure is thick, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes. You can dip the cupcakes in the ganache or spread it on the tops. This recipe will frost 12 cupcakes, but can be doubled.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Red Velvet Cake Recipe
Red Velvet Cake
Cake
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
2T unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 C buttermilk
1T red food coloring
1 tsp distilled white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 C sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
2 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour 2 9-inch with 1 1/2 inch hi sides cake pans. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into med bowl. Whisk buttermilk, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well blended after each addition. Beat in dry ingredients in 4 additions alternately with buttermilk mixture in 3 additions. Divide batter between pans.
Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out with a few crumbs attached about 23 minutes. Check at 20 min. Cool, turn out onto racks. Cool completely before frosting.
I love a tall cake, so I wanted to make 3 layers instead of 2. Just split the measurements in half and add them to the original measurments. No, it doesn't take a math wizard. Use a calculator is you are having trouble because it's important to get the measurement right!
Cream Cheese Icing
Use the recipe from the banana cupcakes except add fresh raspberries and fresh blueberries between layers and on top. Cover and refrigerate. Let stand at room temp 1 hr before serving.
If you make 3 layers, you will need 1 1/2 recipes of frosting.
Cake
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
2T unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 C buttermilk
1T red food coloring
1 tsp distilled white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 C sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
2 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour 2 9-inch with 1 1/2 inch hi sides cake pans. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into med bowl. Whisk buttermilk, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well blended after each addition. Beat in dry ingredients in 4 additions alternately with buttermilk mixture in 3 additions. Divide batter between pans.
Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out with a few crumbs attached about 23 minutes. Check at 20 min. Cool, turn out onto racks. Cool completely before frosting.
I love a tall cake, so I wanted to make 3 layers instead of 2. Just split the measurements in half and add them to the original measurments. No, it doesn't take a math wizard. Use a calculator is you are having trouble because it's important to get the measurement right!
Cream Cheese Icing
Use the recipe from the banana cupcakes except add fresh raspberries and fresh blueberries between layers and on top. Cover and refrigerate. Let stand at room temp 1 hr before serving.
If you make 3 layers, you will need 1 1/2 recipes of frosting.
Recipe Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Makes 12 cupcakes
Cupcakes:
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 very large or 3 small bananas, peeled
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 Cup sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350. Line 12 standard muffin cups with paper liners. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Mash bananas with fork in another medium bowl until smooth. mix sour cream and vanilla into bananas.
Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 min. Add egg and egg yolk, beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with banana-sour cream mixture in 2 additions, biginning and ending with flour mixture and beating just until blended after each addition. Divide batter among prepared muffin cups (generous 1/4 C for each)
If you want to make cake layers instead, double this recipe and use 2 8 or 9 inch round pans.
Bake cupcakes until tester inserted into center comes out with a few crumbs attached, about 20 minutes. Transfer to rack and let cool. For layer cakes, test after 20 min, may take 5 min longer.
Cream Cheese Frosting
2 8oz. pkg cream cheese
1 stick unsalted butter
1 Tblsp. vanilla
2 1/2 C powdered sugar
Beat cream cheese and butter in bowl until smooth. Add vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat until smooth.
This recipe will frost a 2 layer cake, cut it in 1/2 if you are only making 12 cupcakes.
Cupcakes:
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 very large or 3 small bananas, peeled
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 Cup sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, room temp
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350. Line 12 standard muffin cups with paper liners. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Mash bananas with fork in another medium bowl until smooth. mix sour cream and vanilla into bananas.
Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 min. Add egg and egg yolk, beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with banana-sour cream mixture in 2 additions, biginning and ending with flour mixture and beating just until blended after each addition. Divide batter among prepared muffin cups (generous 1/4 C for each)
If you want to make cake layers instead, double this recipe and use 2 8 or 9 inch round pans.
Bake cupcakes until tester inserted into center comes out with a few crumbs attached, about 20 minutes. Transfer to rack and let cool. For layer cakes, test after 20 min, may take 5 min longer.
Cream Cheese Frosting
2 8oz. pkg cream cheese
1 stick unsalted butter
1 Tblsp. vanilla
2 1/2 C powdered sugar
Beat cream cheese and butter in bowl until smooth. Add vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat until smooth.
This recipe will frost a 2 layer cake, cut it in 1/2 if you are only making 12 cupcakes.
Baking for a Baby's 1st Birthday, or How to Please His Parents
October 24, 2009, the birth of my grandson, Riley Matthew Soule. The day my life changed forever! From this day forward I have a reputation to uphold, be the Gigi with the goodies. This is a self imposed position I have made for myself. No one said I had to be the baking Grandma, I just knew I would love to have Riley grow up looking forward to Gigi's cakes. Riley's parents requested a banana cake since the little guy loves banana. I started thinking just a banana cupcake would do the trick, but then that seemed so small, so I bought a 6 inch round cake pan and made his cake a filled frosted mini version that any one year old would be proud of. I doubled the recipe and made the rest into cupcakes. Made a cream cheese frosting, tinted orange of course, and piped black frosting around the edges. Since the party had a Halloween theme (the children attending dressed in costume, as well as some adults) I decorated some of the cupcakes with ghoulish finger puppets, but I put dinosaurs on Riley's cake.
When these very brave parents informed me that there would be close to 30 people at this party I immediately panicked and started baking every night. I made a huge 3 layer red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Using stencils I decorated the top with black sugar bats. (I hadn't used these before and they were not easy, the sugar bled outside the openings, I should have practiced 1st) Then I decided no birthday is complete without something chocolate, so Chocolate Cupcakes filled with cream cheese, toasted pecans, mini chocolate chips with a ganache icing.
I heard rumors from these partyers that Riley's personal cake was the favorite, of course I tried all and I think I agree, the baby got the best, just as it should be. Happy Birthday, Riley!
When these very brave parents informed me that there would be close to 30 people at this party I immediately panicked and started baking every night. I made a huge 3 layer red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Using stencils I decorated the top with black sugar bats. (I hadn't used these before and they were not easy, the sugar bled outside the openings, I should have practiced 1st) Then I decided no birthday is complete without something chocolate, so Chocolate Cupcakes filled with cream cheese, toasted pecans, mini chocolate chips with a ganache icing.
I heard rumors from these partyers that Riley's personal cake was the favorite, of course I tried all and I think I agree, the baby got the best, just as it should be. Happy Birthday, Riley!
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