"That is the sexiest cupcake I've ever eaten!"

This week is the University of Minnesota's spring break. A couple of days ago, my brother sent me a link on Facebook for a recipe for red velvet cupcakes. Yesterday he came home for a few days. Today, we got to work.

Look at those beautiful cupcakes!

 

Possibly the hardest part is waiting for them to cool.

 The recipe says to serve the cupcakes with raspberries or strawberries, so we decided to take it one step further and filled the cupcakes with raspberry preserves (cupcake filling tip can be found here). In the end, we both agreed this had been a great idea.

A batch of frosting and a few sprinkles later, we stepped back to admire our work.

Who needs a cupcake bakery when you can make these beauties?

At this point, we could wait no longer. We both picked up a cupcake, unwrapped it, and dug in. Delicious!! Moist, still just a tiny bit warm, perfect amount of raspberry filling, beautiful creamy frosting (I'll take my brother's word that the frosting is good, I don't like cream cheese frosting and had mine plain.) When finished, my brother declared with feeling, "That is the sexiest cupcake I've ever eaten!!"