Green Velvet Cupcakes & {Doctored Store-Bought Icing}

St. Patrick's Day Green Velvet Cupcakes

I had so much fun during this cupcake photo shoot! I'm so happy with the way these photos turned out I posted a ton of them! I was inspired by these cute mint M & M's that I bought.

I adapted The Cake Doctor's

Quick Red Velvet Cake recipe for these cupcakes.

Ingredients:

1 box white cake with pudding in the mix

1 cup sour cream

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup canola oil

1/2 {or less} of a 1-ounce bottle green food coloring

3 eggs

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

1 tbls. cocoa powder

Preheat oven to 350. Line 2 muffin pans with cupcake liners. Add all ingredients to a mixer. Mix on low for one minute and medium for 2-3 minutes more, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally. Fill liners with batter with an ice cream scoop. One scoop per liner. Bake for 17 minutes. Cool. Frost. 

For the frosting....oh the frosting! Besides the fact that I HATE making icing it didn't matter. I didn't have any powdered sugar, but I did have a ton of canned frosting. So I doctored it. I had 1 and 1/2 cans of vanilla frosting and 1 and 1/2 chocolate frosting.  I also had a cube of cream cheese. I started by adding the chilled vanilla frosting to to the mixer along with the cream cheese. I mixed it thoroughly. Then I removed and set aside half of that frosting to frost half of my cupcakes. To the rest of the vanilla frosting in the mixer, I added the chilled 1 and 1/2 tubs of chocolate frosting and mixed it thoroughly. I frosted the other half of the cupcakes with the chocolate frosting and topped them all with chopped mint M & M's.

I loved the contrast here with the green, blue, and brown.

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