Red Velvet Cupcakes

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these cupcakes were awesome. they were very moist and the icing was amazing! the only thing i would change is the icing amount, only make about half of what it calls for because thats all you'll use and i added pecans in the icing but it was just as good without them.

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I don't really understand why some people had a problem, making those. If you follow directions they come out moist and smell and taste great. The only complain I have is the amount of frosting. I have frosting left over to frost about 20 more. Just cut the frosting in half and you'll be fine. My family loves them.

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After watching this episode I had to try making these visually appealing cupcake. After watching the judges reaction, I decided to up the chocolate. This recipe isn't hard, but requires a lot of ingredients and is rather time consuming due to the wonky amounts. The cupcakes are good, and incredibly moist but I felt that the flavor was lacking. It's a good ting I chose to up the cocoa.

The recipe for icing makes a TON so watch out. Even piling the icing on as Terry did, I still had a lot left over. They were a lot of fun to make and decorate.

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Now why couldn't Food Network just convert the flour and sugar to cups? Mine were just like the others, greasy and nasty. In the trash. Added a bunch of flour and cocoa and they were much better. Next time I guess I have to get a scale and weigh the flour! Seems easier for everyone if they would just make it consistent!

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This cake was great. After reading everyones reviews I had to try this cake, to solve the problem of the cake being too oily. Made the cake to the original recipe, no problem with the oily issue, however I felt the cake was too heavy and not enough cocoa. I altered the recipe by substituting the AP for cake flour and increased the cocoa to 2T.. This produced a lighter cake with an increased cocoa flavor. All in all this recipe is fine and one thing I've learned is baking is a science. Exact measuring is a must. Give this cake a try, be precise and I'm sure you will love it as much as me.

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I did not finish watching the show, but I knew I want that cupcakes! So today I made it and used my "regular" cream cheese frosting recipe and WOWWWWW!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE RECIPE.. I am really glad I tried.

I really like it! My two year old ate three (without the frosting. The recipe makes about 30s muffin size cupcakes and they are done in 20 minutes.

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As a professional baker, I am always trying new recipes. I tried this one and I have to say, I can't figure out why it didn't work for some. I found it to be a very moist cake with a tender texture. I used good quality vanilla and cocoa powder. I weighed all of my dry ingredients and had no problems. The taste was very good and I will use this recipe again in the future. It was a big hit with my family, too.

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I made this recipe using mini cupcake pans and just a small dollop of frosting. (I piped a small flower of frosting onto the center of each cupcake using a pastry bag. I found that the cake is delicious by itself - I didn't think it needed the giant scoop of frosting like she added on the show.
(I doubled the cake recipe, but used less than a single frosting recipe. They were perfect bite sized cupcakes for my party. (Double recipe yielded ~150 mini cupcakes.

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I made these cupcakes, ignoring the fact that it calls for "15.5 OUNCES" of flour, rather than 2 cups. I just substituted 2 cups. Well, my cupcakes came out completely disgusting... extremely oily and dense. I checked the conversion and one measuring cup of flour weighs about 4-1/4 ounces. One measuring cup of sugar weighs 7 oz. So unless you weigh these ingredients, you have to convert these two to avoid my disaster. I'll try the again after another trip to the grocery store.

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They looked great on TV. But poor flavor (almost a fried flavor, greasy, this cant be the same recipe used by the baker.