Recipe: Red Velvet Cupcakes {using McCormick Products}

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 bottle (1 ounce) McCormick® Red Food Color
• 2 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
• Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows below)

DIRECTIONS:

Makes 30 cupcakes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Set aside.

2. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sour cream, milk, food color and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until just blended. Do not overbeat. Spoon batter into 30 paper-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full.

3. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cupcake comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely. Frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.

Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting:

Beat 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened, 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened, 2 tablespoons sour cream and 2 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in 16 ounces confectioners’ sugar (powder sugar) until smooth.

Frosting:

Is it wrong that I just wanted to eat the frosting right out of the bowl!?

Recipe taken from McCormick

So I am not a big baker (nor do I cook that much) but when I do I choose super yummy recipes.  Well thanks to McCormick, I received a package of goodies to get me started.  Next I had to narrow down my choices, which I found some awesome baking recipe ideas here: http://bit.ly/HosWp1 and http://bit.ly/HguVOm.  The Red Velvet Cupcakes popped out at me right away!

McCormick also has a Pinterest contest going on right now!  Check out the McCormick Pinterest page for ideas and read more about the Spring Pin-Spiration Contest!  All you have to do is create a McCormick Pin-Spiration board and Pin five spring recipes from McCormick.com!  Pin a picture of your own recipe re-creation and send off your board!

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