Description
A dramatic Halloween dessert featuring rich red velvet cupcakes with a hidden raspberry jam center and creepy marshmallow fangs.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp red food coloring
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup raspberry jam or reduced raspberry puree
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 12 mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line a cupcake tin.
- Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
- Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs, vanilla, and red coloring.
- Fold in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk until just combined.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool completely, then core the center of each cupcake.
- Fill the cores with raspberry jam.
- Frost with cream cheese frosting and add cut marshmallow fangs.
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American