My son's school has a Family Fun night tomorrow and a cake walk fundraiser. Even in these trying economic times, I wanted to contribute something! I made red velvet cupcakes from scratch and cream cheese vanilla frosting--also from scratch. You can find the red velvet recipe any where..just google it. Its basically chocolate cake made with cocoa powder and red food coloring. The frosting recipe:
1 8 oz pkg of cream cheese softened
1 stick of sweet cream spread softened
2 cups (and a bit more, depending on the consistency you want) powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
All I had to buy (what wasn't already in my cupboards): Chocolate wafer cookies for the wings, eyes and eyebrows, pretzel rods for the branches, circus peanuts for the talons and beak, jelly rings and junior mints-also for the eyes) I made some baby owls out of the leftover cupcakes!
This is one of the coolest cakes I've ever seen, and it's an owl to boot. What a hoot! (Okay, that rhymed.)
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