Cake mix: Red Velvet Cake Party

By aohmc

With one of my favorite Red Velvet Cake recipe, I made 4 different ways:
24 cupcakes - take to a birthday party
12 minis cupcakes and 6 poppers - take to work to share with my co-workers
1 parfait - just for me after dinner :)
Take a little more time to put them together, but it's easy!

Ingredients

• For the Cake batter:
• 1 box Red Velvet cake mix
• 1 small box chocolate pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup cooking oil
• 1 cup warm water
• Mix all above ingredients together in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer or stand mixer. Whisk until well blend and fluffy.
• For Vanilla Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting:
• 2 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, at room temperature
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 (6 oz.) vanilla yogurt
• 1 cup whipped cream
• Whisk all topping ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl until well blend and smooth. Set in the refrigerator until ready to use.

Details

Adapted from aohomc.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

For cupcakes:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 cupcake liners in muffin pans and lightly spray with no-stick cooking oil. Fill each cupcake liners with the cake batter 1/2 full. Bake for 18 minutes. Remove from oven and cool in the pans.
Top with Vanilla Yogurt Cream Cheese frosting and decorate with your favorite cake decor.

For mini cupcakes, popper and parfait:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray a 24-counts mini muffin pan with no-stick cooking oil. Fill each cup with 1 Tbsp. of cake batter. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely.
Assemble each popper by using 2 mini cupcakes: cut tops off each cupcakes horizontally, spread or pipe about 1 Tbsp. frosting on the cut side of 1 cupcake top. Form a sandwich by placing cut side of second cupcake top on the frosting. Press lightly.
Assemble Parfait by using the bottom of each min cupcakes left from popper, layer with yogurt, nuts, cookie crumbs, and frosting top. Place a mini red velvet cake on the top to decorate.