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[Recipe] Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Posted in Dessert, Joyce, Mr., Recipe, tagged cream cheese, cupcakes, Dessert, frosting, recipe, red velvet cupcakes on November 17, 2010| 3 Comments »

As promised, today we’re sharing with you the recipe we used to make the celebratory red velvet cupcakes on Monday. We found two different recipes online and combined them with a few tweaks. This recipe makes 24 servings so feel free to cut it down by half if you only want to make a dozen of them.

Red velvet cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcake

Ingredients for the cupcake

Ingredients

2 eggs
1.5 cups canola oil
1.5 cups sugar
1 cup plain yogurt
2 tablespoons red food colouring
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2.5 cups flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
a pinch of salt

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350F (180C)
Mix sugar with all wet ingredients (eggs, oil, yoghurt, food colouring, vinegar and vanilla)
Add dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt) and blend until just incorporated
Well-mixed cake batter
Place cupcake paper cups into a muffin pan, divide the batter in the cups to about 2/3 filled. (more…)

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VanFoodies.com is ONE!!

Posted in Joyce, Mr., Special Occasion, tagged anniversary, birthday, red velvet cupcakes on November 15, 2010| 15 Comments »

Exactly one year ago today I announced that we switched to a new domain. Happy birthday to VanFoodies.com – we’re one year old!

VanFoodies is one!

One year old? But you’ve got blog posts dated all the way back in 2006!

Yes, if you had the opportunity to go through my old posts, you would notice that I’ve been blogging since 2006. Back then I was just doing it leisurely and didn’t really consider myself a blogger. The turning point was last year when I felt the warm welcome from the food blogging community and decided to take my blog to the next level. It’s when I got the domain name VanFoodies that this site really started to take off. In addition, I had the privilege of having Mr. and Frank joining me to provide readers with different perspectives of food.

To celebrate this special occasion, I enlisted the help of Mr. to whip up a batch of delicious red velvet cup cakes. I created my recipe from a couple different sources (one for the cake and one for the frosting), with a few of my own touches. I’m not known for my cooking skills or being able to cook at all, but once in awhile I surprise myself and others by making something yummy. This cupcake recipe is fairly easy to follow. Check back on Wednesday for the recipe – it’ll be perfect for Christmas parties!

Even though we are nowhere near rich and famous (hence no contest or party to celebrate our anniversary lol), and we are not blogging everyday like other fellow food bloggers (you know who you are!), we do try to update as much as we can to keep you entertained.