Tuesday, 21 December 2010

• Easy Recipe: Red Velvet Cupcake With Cheesecake Filling

  Red Velvet Cake: the cake that Megan Fox ate every night to gain weight for her role in Transformers, the cake that became infamous after the 1989 movie Steel Magnolias, and the cake that is the signature dessert in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where it's rumored to have been conceived in the 1920's.

  While this cake looks red, the flavor behind it is chocolate. The red color is now created with food coloring, but originally was made with beets (::gag::). Legend has it that a customer at Waldorf Astoria asked for the recipe for this cake. The waiter obliged and charged her $100 for the recipe. The frustrated customer was so furious that she spread the recipe to make sure the hotel could not charge anyone $100 for the recipe again. Again, it's a legend--a similar story runs around for Neiman Marcus's famous chocolate chip cookie. 

  Red Velvet cake was considered a "rich man's dessert" due to the high costs of the ingredients. Post industrial revolution, the cost declined and it went from a lavish delicacy to a common dessert.  

   I love Red Velvet Cupcakes, but I find the cream cheese frosting to be a bit overwhelming. I find that cheesecake filling in lieu of cream cheese frosting is, if I may say so myself, even more decadent than the original.

  Below is a super easy recipe for how to make Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cheesecake.The best part about this recipe is you can make it as easy or as complicated as you want! You can either make it all from scratch using your favorite recipes for red velvet cake and cheesecake or take the easier route and purchase a red velvet cake mix and a cheesecake.

  Ingredients:

  1 Red Velvet Cake Mix (e.g. Duncan Hines) or your favorite recipe from scratch
  1/3 Cheesecake without crust
  Vanilla Frosting

  Directions:

  1. Allow cheesecake to warm to room temperature. Remove the cake filling, making sure to separate the crust and mix the cheesecake until it's even in consistency.
  2. Prepare Red Velvet Cake mix as instructed on box or recipe
  3. Preheat oven; line muffin tray with cupcake liners.
  4. Fill 1/3 of the cupcake liner with cake batter. Add 1/2 spoonful of cheesecake batter. Fill the cupcake liner with cake batter until 2/3 full. Repeat.  

  5. Bake as instructed on box or recipe.
  6. After cupcakes have baked and cooled, ice with vanilla frosting.

  Anyone else out there who doesn't like cream cheese frosting? What are your thoughts on Red Velvet Cake?

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