For my second Cupcakes for a Cure endeavor, I was asked to make birthday cupcakes for a coworker’s sister’s birthday party. We decided on Red Velvet + Cream Cheese Frosting and Devil’s Food + Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate Frosting. (All courtesy of the Martha Stewart Cupcakes Cookbook, of course.)

I’m told the birthday girl, Kirby, likes all things girly (my kinda girl!), so I made cutesy fondant flowers to top the Devil’s Food Cupcakes and white chocolate stilettos and tiarras to top the Red Velvet cupcakes.

This was my first time concocting Martha’s recipe for Red Velvet. It was fairly easy, and even included somewhat of a science experiment (baking soda + vinegar = foamy fun.)

The recipe for Devil’s Food cupcakes is quite similar to the one I used for the Iron Cupcake competition back in February. So needless to say, I had some practice whipping that up.

Happy Birthday, Kirby!! I hope you enjoy them.

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