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RED VELVET CUPCAKE MURDER
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A Hannah Swensen Mystery
By JOANNE FLUKE
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white
1 and 1/2 cups
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butter, room tem
1/2 cup salted
oil
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1/2 cup vege
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1 teaspoon sal
king powder
1 teaspoon ba
king soda
1 teaspoon ba
coa powder
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(pack it do
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1 cup butterm
lk)
thinned with mi
(or sour cream
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar (or white vinegar)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the
middle position. Place 24 paper cupcake liners in
two 12-cup cupcake pans.
Using an electronic mixer, combine the first 10
ingredients. Beat until smooth. Add the flour in
increments, alternating with the buttermilk. Then
mix in the vinegar (the batter will foam up a bit).
Fill the cupcake papers 1/3 full of batter. Then place
one Chocolate Apricot Surprise in the center of
each cup and press it down slightly. Add more
batter until the cups are three-quarters full.
(these cupcakes don’t rise much).
Bake for 20 to 23 minutes. Take them from the oven
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their pans
and let the cupcakes cool in
ly before
on a wire rack. Cool complete
frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
ned
4 ounces cream cheese, softe
1/4 cup salted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
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red decorators sugar (optiona
ther in a
Mix the first 3 ingredients toge
powdered
medium-sized bowl. Then add
ading
sugar until the frosting is of spre
consistency.
your
Work from the center to frost
way to the
cupcakes and don’t go all the
cupcake
edges. Leave some pretty red
the
showing at the edges. To make
the
cupcakes even prettier, sprinkle
r
tops with red decorators suga
before the frosting dries.
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