RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Cake Ingredients:
1.5 sugar
1 stick slightly softened butter

2 eggs, room temperature
2 1/3 cups flour
2 TBSP cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
1.5 TBSP red food coloring
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp distilled white vinegar

Frosting Ingredients:
1 stick softened butter
8 oz softened cream cheese
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar (to your taste)
1 tsp vanilla

Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Mix butter and sugar in an electric mixer for 3 minutes on medium speed until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs, one at a time until each is fully blended in. Set aside.

In a large bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and set aside.

In a third, bowl whisk together the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla extract, and red food coloring.
Now add a fourth of the dry ingredients into the buttermilk mixture

Next, add a third of the wet to the buttermilk mixture.

Slowly add some of the dry and then some of the wet ingredients into the buttermilk mixture, blending completely after each addition

Scoop into cupcake papers, about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full.

Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Allow to cool for one minute in the pan then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Now make the frosting-

Cream the butter and cream cheese together, about 3 minutes.

Add vanilla extract and mix.
Add powdered sugar gradually, continually tasting to get to desired sweetness.

Spread onto cooled cupcakes.

KAREN'S SOUTHERN COMFORT CAKE

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cake-
1 yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix
(If you can't find this kind of cake mix, add a small bag of vanilla pudding powder)
4 eggs
1/2 cup COLD water
1/2 cup oil
1 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup Southern Comfort
glaze-
1/4 cup butter
1/8 cup water
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup Southern Comfort
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1. Preheat oven to 325F
2. Combine all ingredients for cake at medium speed for 2 minutes
3. Pour into greased/floured 10 or 12" bundt pan
4. Bake 1 hour and let cool
5. While cooling - make glaze:
6. Melt butter in sauce pan
7. Stir in water and sugar
8. Boil for 3 minutes
9. Remove from heat and add in Southern Comfort
10. Back to the cake:
11. Once cooled, invert onto plate and prick holes in top (this will let the icing soak in deep)
12. Brush glaze evenly across top of cake
13. Just before serving, sift powdered sugar on top of cake

My boss used to bring in this cake and it is delicious. Moist and tasty! Once she boozed it up a little more for us - guess she didn't mind lesser productivity that day!