Recipe: Perfect Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July

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Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July. While they're perfectly appropriate for Valentine's Day, there's no wrong time to serve these red velvet cupcakes. Stuffed with white chocolate and topped with mascarpone, this red velvet cupcake recipe will take top dollar at the bake sale or disappear first off the dessert spread. Cook and stir over low heat until chocolate is nearly melted.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, red food coloring and vanilla. Red velvet cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese frosting!! They hail from my absolute favorite red velvet recipe. You can have Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July

  1. You need of Batter.
  2. It's 2 box of Red Velvet Cake Mix.
  3. Prepare 1/2 dozen of Eggs.
  4. It's 2 cup of Water.
  5. You need 2/3 cup of Vegetable Oil.
  6. It's of Filling.
  7. Prepare 8 oz of White Chocolate.
  8. It's 8 oz of Cream Cheese.
  9. It's 1/2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup of Milk.
  11. You need of Icing.
  12. You need 2 can of Whipped Cream Cheese Icing.
  13. Prepare 1 box of Food Coloring.
  14. It's of Misc..
  15. It's 1 of Decorating Tips.
  16. You need 4 of Disposable Piping Bags.

I found a red velvet cake recipe a while ago that I LOVED and I've been making it for years in various adaptions ( mini red velvet bundt cakes seen here). Super Moist™ devil's food cake mix can also be used for dark red velvet cupcakes; omit cocoa. If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the. Red velvet, chocolate, and cupcakes (only because they are easy, quick, and cute).

Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Filling & Cream Cheese Icing - 4th of July step by step

  1. Preheat oven to temp as instructed on cake mix box..
  2. In a double broiler, combine milk & white chocolate, over medium heat. Stir often until completely melted & smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature..
  3. Beat cream cheese & vanilla together in a separate bowl..
  4. Once chocolate mixture has cooled, slowly stir it into cream cheese mixture. Place mixture into refrigerator to set for 2 hours..
  5. Prepare cake mix according to box.
  6. Pour batter into cupcake/muffin pan. Bake as directed. *Note* Mix states you can make 48 cupcakes but I've never been able to get more that 40-42 out of it..
  7. Remove from oven & allow them to cool COMPLETELY..
  8. After filling has finished setting, remove from refrigerator & scoop into a piping bag & begin filling cupcakes. (If you've never filled a cupcake YouTube will be your bestfriend.).
  9. Mix up your icing colors & decorate!.

Not to mention this recipe is perfect for Valentine's Day (these cupcakes aren't a hassle to transport). I kind of want to stuff anything and everything with a ball of chocolate ganache now. Forget the artificial coloring - these red velvet cupcakes are colored naturally with beets. But the real star is the white chocolate cream cheese frosting! Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Mousse Filling and Cream Cheese Frosting Makes about a bakers dozen of cupcakes-but a large amount of mousse.