Green Velvet

I thought I was being sooo tricky. If Red Velvet is the new hot thang, why couldn't I make a cute little treat for St. Paddy's day and come up with... GREEN VELVET?

I used a normal, red velvet recipe, but instead of the red food coloring I thought I would just add green instead.

Things were going just fine and dandy until I got to the part where it said how much red food coloring went into this so called Red Velvet cake mix. AN ENTIRE JUG OF FOOD COLORING.

I reread it and reread it. and thought NO WAY! First of all, it just seemed gross and so artificial. Plus, I thought that had to be a mistake. A little food coloring goes a loonnnnggg way.

I figured it must have been wrong so I went on, just putting in a normal amount of food coloring. It was a lovely, DARK green. Velvety, if you will. So I thought to myself, BINGO. I am so smart. Who needs stupid old recipes anyways to tell you to put AN ENTIRE LITTLE JUG OF FOOD COLORING? I'll show them.

So I put my beautiful green velvet cupcakes in the oven.

And the timer went off...

They were BARELY GREEN AT ALL. :(

My "green velvet" cupcakes were light, seafoam green. :( Like pukey, moldy green.

Advice: follow the recipe.

and PS. that awesome Red Velvet cake from Costco? I'm not sure if I will be able to ever enjoy it again, because it probably does have a cup of food coloring... :)

So apparently I wasn't the only one who ever thought of green velvet, either.

What they are supposed to look like...

Notice the velvety, DARK, rich color...

My beauties?

And this makes them look WAY more green then they really were. They were so light you could even see the brown crispy burn marks!

FAIL! Oh well.

I guess I have to stick to my Yoplait Red Velvet Cake Yogurt...