Blue Velvet Cake

Paula Deen makes this dessert as a cake. Paula Deen also has cake pans, and probably regular size cupcake pans, apparently I don't own a normal size cupcake pan. But I did happen to find out that I have like 4 mini cupcake pans....but only 13 mini cupcake liners. Ugh! I cut the batch down to half the size and I still could only make a half of that with what I had. Which is probably all right because after the Fried Butter Balls, I don't really think I need that many cupcakes.

Mixing up this batter was very interesting. It wasn't difficult at all, just interesting. First off, unless you want to turn your finger blue, I wouldn't recommend testing the batter every 3 seconds for quality control with your finger. Second, if you get some blue food coloring on your hands, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING! In a matter of seconds, I managed to re-decorate parts of my pretty new counters, face, fridge and stove. And last but not least. One of the steps said mix baking soda and vinegar and then put into the batter and mix in. A) I didn't read the mix first and then add, part of the recipe, i just dumped it in, i think it turned out fine.. and B) I am NOT a science person. I did not know that when you introduce the baking soda and vinegar that they would bubble and fizz. Paula Deen, you should of warned me!! This was the last part of the batter recipe and I swore I had just ruined the entire thing. I've never had cake batter bubble and fizzle before.

I used 2 small bottles of blue food coloring. According to my half scaled recipe, I should of put in an ounce and these were thirds of an ounce of coloring in each bottle, so simple math says it should of been blue-r, I'm not quite sure if that's a word. Anyways, the color I achieved was GORGEOUS! I loved it. ]

Around 15-20 minutes later, wasn't paying attention (housewives was on TV), the cupcakes were done. It's a common rule of thumb in my kitchen that you have to eat one right hot out of the oven, and I'm not one to break my own rules. I ate it without icing it and it was magnificent! Not to much of a cocoa taste, it was light and fluffy and ooohhhh soo good!

I mixed up the icing in a full batch size, I never skimp out on the icing. Sorry Paula, but I cannot do coconut, it's a texture thing, and I used the pecans as a topper in case someone didn't like them. The icing is very cream cheesy, kind of heavy. I added half a teaspoon of vanilla to it, but that's just my tastes.

Anywho, below is a picture of my wonderful creation. I promise I will figure out how to turn the images the right way around soon. Have a wonderful day and thanks for checking in on my blog.