I had cream cheese frosting left over from Red Velvet cupcakes I made last week. Every time I saw opened the refrigerator I could here it whispering, “Eat Me. I’m your favorite.” Something had to be done, but what? I couldn’t throw it away. That would be some kind of crime against cupcakes everywhere. Eating it by the spoonful wasn’t an option or was it? I did go cross country skiing this afternoon and I ate a late breakfast and didn’t eat lunch. These thoughts actually went through my head before I was reminded that I’m in the midst of a “biggest loser” competition. Frosting by the spoonful was not going to get me any closer to that $450.
Then I remembered that I had bookmarked a recipe from How Sweet It Is that made 2 vanilla cupcakes. Even better all the mixing is done by hand and only one bowl is used. YAY to not having a lot of dishes to clean. I ended up cutting the batter in half and adding some cherry juice to one portion. I wanted to try out a zebra stripe technique I had read about a while ago and decided this would be a good time.
The stripes in this cupcake aren’t very zebra like. Of course, one of the other two cupcakes had very good “zebra” stripes but I discovered that as it was being eaten (not by me). If you want to try the zebra stripe technique here’s what you do:
Prepare your batter, divide in half and add food color to one half of the batter. Then spoon one tablespoon of the vanilla batter into the cupcake liners & gently shake the pan to even the batter. Add a tablespoon of the colored batter into the center of the vanilla batter & gently shake the pan. Alternating colors keep adding batter by the tablespoon into the center of the liners until about 2/3 full. It will resemble a dart board when done.
Here is the recipe to make 2 cherry vanilla cupcakes in one bowl without the stripes. If you want to do the stripes divide the batter in half and add cherry juice to just one half of the batter.
This recipe is perfect if you want to make a quick treat for 2 people.
Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon cherry juice
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 heaping teaspoon baking powder
- pinch salt
- 1 1/2 Tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl, whisk egg white and sugar together until combined.
- Stir in butter and vanilla until mixed.
- Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Stir until smooth.
- Add milk and stir until combined.
- Divide batter in half.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let cool on wire rack before frosting.
Notes
Recipe adapted from /www.howsweeteats.com/
Hope you enjoy.
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These are too cute! Wow! You were so meticulous with the sprinkles, I won’t know how you did it! I would have messed up my frosting big time putting those on to perfectly! They look gorgeous!
I just wanted to let you know that I host a Friday Weekly Link Party and would love it if you joined!
Ashley
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If there had been more than 3 cupcakes to decorate I may have gone a different route with the sprinkles:) I will definitely join your link party on Friday. Thanks so much for the invite!
What a beautiful Valentine treat & I love portion control!!
Thanks! I’m delighted that you liked them. I’m so glad I found this recipe. Its so easy and really yummy to top it off:)
These cupcakes look sooooooo cute and adorable, and it’s also very romantic
I love it
Glad you liked them. Thanks for stopping by hope you keep come back to check out my sweet treats:)
BEAUTIFUL!!! =)
Thanks so much!
I love the “dessert for two” idea. Because otherwise, it’s dessert for two, and then I eat the leftovers.
Thanks for sharing on Crazy Sweet Tuesday!
Thanks for hosting Cray Sweet Tuesday! Dessert for two is the best thing I’ve come across in a while. As much as i love to bake; it’s probably not the best thing to have a counter stocked with cupcakes & cookies. If you haven’t already you should check out
http://www.dessertfortwo.com. Her site is full of recipes for 2 that look delicious.
These look fantastic! yum, i can already taste the cherry! Not Your Ordinary Agent
Not Your Ordinary Recipes
Thanks so much; glad you like them:)
Perfect cupcake for Valentine’s! I’d love for you to submit this to the M&T Spotlight http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
Thanks for the invite. I just submitted to the spotlight. What a great idea. I will be spending some time checking out the other submissions.
These are so cute, I will put a healthy spin on them. I love the piping and how you did the decorations on top. My husband loves cherry, I will have to make them for our 15th year wedding anniversary on Feb 15.
I hope that you get to enjoy them on your anniversary! I had to use tweezers to add the sprinkles. The hearts were tiny.
Yum! I love cherry! I baked some cherry doughnuts today…so good!
Thanks for sharing on Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
Cherry doughnuts sounds really good right now. Thanks for hosting!
completely delish!!! Thx for sharing at TEa Party Tuesday
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Congrats! These adorable cupcakes for 2 are featured today at Mrs Foxs Sweet Party
How exciting! Thanks so much for featuring and hosting!
Ohh..they look so pretty!! You can share your sweet & romantic recipes with my
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Thanks a lot for sharing these pretty cupcakes with ‘Decorating Challenge’ event….I am going to bookmark the recipe as it is difficult to find the recipe for 2.
I already know I am going to love these BUT so will my 2 sons. Have you figured out how to make this recipe to make a dozen cupcakes?
I havent figured out how to make it into a dozen yet. I really wish I could because I’ve done these with just vanilla and they are REALLY good. I’ve been searching for a good vanilla recipe for a long time with no success.