RED VELVET CUPCAKE MARTINI COCKTAIL RECIPE

Red Velvet cake is a very popular Southern dessert (remember the Red Velvet Armadillo Groom's Cake in Steele Magnolias?) and it is, technically, a chocolate cake recipe where the red coloring comes from added food coloring. However, the original recipes used cocoa that was not "Dutch Processed" and the natural red coloring of the cocoa powder, reacting to the acid of the vinegar and buttermilk, would have been more pronounced, possibly this was the source for the name "Red Velvet". 
During World War II and the food rationing bakers often used boiled beets to enhance the color of their cakes and this would have given the cake a very rich, deep red color as well.
Most recipes these days use food coloring, and I have done the same in my martini recipe simply because there is no liqueur I like with the deep red color that would have enhanced the true Red Velvet Cake flavor of this martini and I'm not overly fond of beet juice. (Big Understatement!)
Of course, no respectable Red Velvet Cake these days is complete without the requisite cream cheese frosting so I have used this as part of my garnish and rimming ingredient.

THERED VELVETCUPCAKEMARTINIBetter than a poke in the eye with a stick.Much better than beet juice.

INGREDIENTS

1 Oz. Cake Vodka

1 Oz. Dark Crème de Cacao

1 Oz. Half & Half

5 Drops Red Food Coloring

Garnish

Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet Cake Crumbs

DIRECTIONS

Pipe cream cheese frosting on the glass rim then dip into cake crumbs, chill in freezer.

Shake ingredients with ice, pour into your rimmed glass and serve.

VOICEOVER VIDEO WITH INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS:

Here's an easy little tip for piping on the cream cheese without piping bags & tips: Grab yourself a small baggie, spoon in softened cream cheese frosting, cut a tiny little tip off the corner and simply pipe it on the rim of your glass in a wiggly line.
Updated 9-2021PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY