Cherry Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet seemed to be on everyone’s lips, so I set myself a tasty challenge on a trip to New York—to hit up every bakery we passed and find out what all the fuss was about. Oh, what a variety…but not all of it good unfortunately! Some bakeries were serving dry, red-colored vanilla cupcakes with buttercream. Thankfully others had a beautiful, unique flavor with rich cream cheese frosting that left me keen to get home and start experimenting. It wasn’t easy but finally, after many disappoin