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Dark Red Velvet Cake for Valentine’s Day

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Dark Red Velvet Cake - Chocolate Cake Recipe

Recipe: Dark Red Velvet Cake

Summary: This Red Velvet Cake Recipe lends itself well to using at Valentine’s Day.  Simply buy your cupcake papers, (I bought cupcake papers with red hearts on them), and fill 3/4 of the way. Frost with your favorite cream cheese icing recipe!

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp. baking soda
  • 2- 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp. baking cocoa
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 ounces red food coloring
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup sweet milk, (regular milk)
  • 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

Instructions

  1. Combine cocoa, flour, sugar, salt, food coloring and vanilla with butter.
  2. Beat in buttermilk; add eggs beaten with the sweet milk. Mix ingredients well with an electric mixer.
  3. Add vinegar and baking soda, stir thoroughly.
  4. Place in two greased and floured cake pans or cupcake papers.
  5. Bake at 325 approximately 25-30 minutes, or until cake tests done.
  6. Cool and frost with cream cheese icing.
  7. Top with chocolate chips and/or chopped walnuts.

Preparation time: 20 minute(s)

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes(s)

Number of servings (yield): 8 

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

 

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Wild Maine Blueberry Muffin Recipe

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Wild Maine Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Recipe: Wild Maine Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Summary: Blueberry Season in Maine In the early years of my children’s lives we lived in Maine; my husband and I would go raking wild blueberries to earn extra money while he was going to college. We would get our blueberry rakes, wooden crates, and …Please enjoy this recipe and read the rest of the story!

Ingredients

  • 2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour (reserve 2 tbsp of flour in separate bowl)
  • ½ c. sugar
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 c. fresh wild Maine blueberries or other organic blueberries
  • 1 c. milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/3 c. light olive oil
  • 1 egg, slightly beaten
  • Cinnamon – Sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400° F. In large mixing bowl, combine first five ingredients, mix well.
  2. Combine milk, vanilla, oil and egg; add to batter and beat until moistened; do not over mix.
  3. Take reserved flour and cover wild blueberries thoroughly, fold into batter.
  4. Grease muffin-pan cups with butter and pour batter in using a 1/4 cup measure, sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar on top of each muffin.
  5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until sharp knife inserted in center comes out clean. Rest muffins 2-3 minutes to cool, and then loosen muffins with rubber spatula and pop-out of cup. This recipe makes 12 muffins. Don’t over bake.

Preparation time: 20 minute(s)

Cooking time:

Number of servings (yield): 12

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

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-Virginia Wright

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