Christmas is less than a week away! Oh joy! I get a full two weeks off from work this year, so I’m now officially on vacation. I’m going home for the Holidays, but my sister is staying here, so we decided to spend some Christmassy time together today, a sisters Christmas you could say. We watched classic Christmas cartoons like Rudolf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas. We ate some good food. We made some cupcakes. It was so much fun!
The cupcakes we made were classic red velvet. I took the recipe from the Cupcakes book once again. They paired the red chocolate and vanilla cake with a white chocolate ganache instead of cream cheese icing, but since another cake in the book had cream cheese icing I just swapped it. In my mind, red velvet needs cream cheese icing. It was my first time trying to make icing with cream cheese. It turned out really well. I loved the texture, it’s subtly different from butter icing. Cream cheese icing is definitely not my favorite kind of icing, but I can still appreciate a good one. The recipe I used from this book was a very good one indeed.
I hope the lucky people who will eat these tomorrow will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to enjoy more vacation fun! Have awesome, happy Holidays and I’ll see you in 2011!
