Comments on: red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

By: Radish

Radish — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:13 +0000

Meg – so sorry to hear your experience with these was awful. Mine were fine and my guests loved them. Not sure what might have transpired, but I feel badly you had a bad recipe experience – those always bum me out!

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:04:29 +0000

I just made these-followed the directions closely and only used 1 small bottle of food coloring and let me tell you…these were awful! it’s either the vinegar or not enough sugar but they were bland and I couldn’t serve them to guests.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:48:31 +0000

Hey! The reason your cupcakes weren’t moist is because there is a misprint in the recipe! The correct one is supposed to have 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) of butter, not 1 1/2 sticks! If you watch the video: http://www.epicurious.com/video/1915433406?mbid=rss_epilf
She uses and says the right amount in the video! Hope this helps if you make them again =)

By: valerie

valerie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:07:59 +0000

I made these two weeks ago after finding the recipe on another site – one little bottle of food coloring is 4 tbs – if you made the whole recipe, you would need 1 1/2 bottles. I cut the recipe to two dozen cupcakes and used one bottle and the color was darker than yours – but still looked good. Maybe I’ll cut back the coloring for the next batch!

By: maggie

maggie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:29:22 +0000

Really great photos!

By: parsnips aplenty

parsnips aplenty — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:00:37 +0000

I love the picture of the red batter in the mixer bowl! All those ribbons of crimson… gorgeous!

By: radish

radish — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:54:48 +0000

Sarah and Jessica – thank you!!
Robin, who else made them? I wonder if it’s something in the air. I decided to make them solely bc my friend wanted to make them from a box in my kitchen and i nearly had an aneurysm. And yes, 6 tbs — not sure what they were thinking.

By: robin @ caviar and codfish

robin @ caviar and codfish — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:14:11 +0000

Is there a food blogger memo going out for Red Velvet cakes? It’s so funny how sometimes a trend just pops up – I’ve seen red velvet cakes on like 5 of my favorite food blog lately!
I really like the idea of red velvet cupcakes. Very adorable. And 6 tablespoons!?! That’s insane. Yours are certainly red using just one.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Those look great!! They’d be very festive for the holidays – I may have to make some in Christmas cupcake liners :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:18:51 +0000

Can I just say wow? All these photos are so gorgeous.