Hello & Smile!

Christmas is here! The most wonderful time of the year! I believe this with all my heart. I love Christmas and all of the super yummy food associated with it, especially cupcakes. So today, i am going to give you a recipe i found on the Internet for Surprise Red Velvet Cupcakes!

These Surprise Red velvet cupcakes are cupcakes filled with a cheesecake filling, with white chocolate chips. You can frost them with cream cheese frosting or eat them as is…I personally don’t even if they have frosting. They are extremely delicious either way!

Surprise Red Velvet Cupcakes makes 2 dozen cupcakes

You can use a boxed Red Velvet Cake mix if you would like…just prepare as normal.

Filling

I like to use more than just a heaping teaspoon of filling…so I normally will double this recipe. 

1 8oz package cream cheese, softened

1 egg

1/3 cup sugar

8-10 ounces of white chocolate chips

In a small bowl, blend cream cheese, egg and sugar. Beat until smooth. Add white

chocolate chips.

Red Velvet Cake

The cake recipe is from Bakerella

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 Tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 oz. red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 24 standard muffin cups with cupcake liners.

Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with a wire whisk. Add remaining liquid ingredients and stir together with whisk until blended. Set aside. Place all the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and stir together really good with another wire whisk. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium-high for about a minute or until completely combined.

Fill prepared pans 2/3 full and top with heaping teaspoon of filling. Bake at 350 for 20 -25 minutes.

If you choose to frost these cupcakes, cool completely before frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

2 8 oz packages cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 pounds confectioners sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream together cream cheese and butter. Beat in vanilla. On low speed, add confectioners sugar a little at a time. Once all sugar has been added increase to medium speed until frosting is creamy.