What a killer week I've had! Last Thursday, however, I baked some rather nommy red velvet cupcakes. Again using my hummingbird bakery cookbook that I purchased when I was in London in August, I was pretty confident these would work - and they did! In fact, one consumer of these cupcakes called the divine (though the cream cheese icing was not everyone's cup of tea). Again the batter was runnier than I was used to, but this resulted in soft, moist cakes. I made 17 cupcakes in total and after making the icing and icing 12 of them, used one cake to crumble up and sprinkle bits over the top. While I liked the recipe, I have actually made red velvet before using a Jamie Oliver recipe and I think that had a stronger flavour.
I made these cupcakes specifically for the Red Cross Big Cake Back fundraiser and took them into work. They didn't go as quickly as I had hoped, I raised a total of $40.30! Really interesting to see that some people put in a dollar or so and one put in $10! Several put in $5, so I was pretty chuffed with that (and the $10). I was expecting $1 or $2 each.
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