February is such a great month. There’s Family Day and Valentine’s Day and frankly love and family abound. This month you need to make these Cherry Red Velvet Valentine’s Day Cupcakes. Could anything be sweeter for your sweetheart than red velvet and cupcakes combined?
I have been craving a good cupcake recipe for months here and who can say No to red velvet? My kids also love red velvet so I know these will be well received this month.
Cherry Red Velvet Valentine's Day Cupcakes
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- -Line cupcake tins with paper liners.
- -Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt all together.
- -Mix the dry ingredients with a wire whisk for 3 minutes
- -In a separate bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter, shortening and sugar until it is light and creamy.
- -Add the egg, vanilla, red velvet extract, and red gel food coloring.
- -Mix well.
- -Add flour mix and milk, 1/2 portion of each at a time, mix until completely combined.
- -Spoon the batter into the lined cupcake tins until 2/3's filled.
- -Bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- -Cool for 10 minutes
- -Remove from cupcake tins to a wire rack until totally cooled.
- Cherry Vanilla Frosting
- Vanilla frosting
- C unsalted butter, softened
- tsp vanilla
- C powdered sugar
- Cherry frosting
- C unsalted butter, softened
- tsp vanilla
- C powdered sugar
- tbsp juice from a jar of maraschino cherries
- tsp almond extract
- -4 drops of red food coloring
- Frosting Directions:
- make the vanilla frosting first
- -Add the butter into a standing mixer until fluffy
- -Mix on low.
- -Slowly add powdered sugar until blended.
- -Add vanilla and beat until thoroughly combined.
- -Scoop the frosting into the side a pastry bag with a large frosting tip.
- Cherry Frosting
- -Add the butter into a standing mixer until fluffy
- -Mix on low.
- -Slowly add powdered sugar until blended.
- -Add in the cherry juice and almond extract.
- -Mix until blended
- -Add in the red food coloring, add in a drop or of the food coloring to get the shade of red that you desire
- -Add the frosting to a large star tipped pastry bad.
- -Twist the open end of the pastry bag to force the frosting to the tip.
- -Frost the cupcakes working from the outside edge to the center of the cupcake.
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Share the love and Pin this for later. What are you doing this Valentine’s Day? Whether you are making sweets for the school bake sale, or sharing with a loved one these are the ticket. Make them, bake them, and of course share them. The trickiest part of these Cherry Red Velvet Valentine’s Day cupcakes is the frosting.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Red Velvet is one of my favorite flavors. I normally top my red velvet off with cream cheese icing. I need to try your icing. Looks so delicious!
My kids love red velvet but I’ve never made it. They keep asking, but I’m afraid of it. I should just man up and try it.
The frosting looks perfect! I never can get it this way! Can you come over and pipe my cupcakes if I make these?! 🙂
Always love a great red velvet cake or cupcakes. Frosting looks really pretty and delicious.
This is so not helping me lose my weight lol! OMG! I just have to make these for my kids and maybe a small one for me. These are too cute! Plus, my hubby is a red velvet cake fanatic so he will love these!
Oh my gosh those look awesome! I would be definitely a fun thing for us to make for Valentine’s Day. They are adorable and I know my hubby would love it.
I’m not a fan of red velvet cupcakes because the frosting is usually that cream cheese one. If I can get some buttercream frosting instead, then that is what I want! Perfect valentine’s treat
I have never had or tried or made red velvet anything. I think it is high time I change this in my life, especially since we have a red holiday coming upon us very quickly. These looks super delicious
Those are so pretty! I love red velvet, but I’m not a fan of cherry unless it is pie! I’d have to sub out the juice for a different flavor.
Red velvet is my son’s favorite cake flavor. He would love these cherry red velvet cupcakes for Valentine’s Day!
Oh my these look so delicious! I love red velvet everything. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make these this week. They will be perfect for Valentines day.
I love red velvet! These cupcakes look almost too pretty to eat. Thanks for sharing recipe!
Cherry and red velvet? Doesn’t that sound like a lovely combo? I am anxious to try this recipe out and see what it tastes like.
They look so good! I love the blended colors for the icing! Red Velvet has become one of my favorite cakes 🙂
Oh my goodness! I love all these red velvet cupcakes recipes I’ve been seeing lately. I know I am not allowed to indulge in sweets but maybe just one cupcake won’t hurt. I’m asking my sister to make some for me. She is so good at baking, I know it won’t be long she’ll start a business with her skills. Sharing this recipe with her.
I have actually never made red velvet cake before. I will have to try these for valentine’s day this year!
These cupcakes look really delicious! I love the two-colored frosting idea! My daughter has been asking constantly to bake something for Valentine’s Day and I think that these Cherry Red Velvet Valentine’s Day Cupcakes would be a perfect fit!
Those are really cute. I am going to see if I can find a tutorial on YouTube to show me how to make my icing look like yours.
These look so delicious and festive too. They would be the perfect sweet treat for Valentine’s.