Props to my Aunt Janie for finding this recipe for me (originally from Something Swanky). What can I say? She's known me since I was born and somethings just don't change. :-)Aside About Cade: My family loves desserts. At Thanksgiving and Christmas We devote an entire table to them. Growing up, Mom always made a different dessert each week and our house always smelled delicious. Let's face it, some of Sister and my worst fights were over who got to lick the cake batter bowl. Woe unto Thee that washes the bowl before We get our spatulas out! (And Woe unto anyone else with a spatula aimed at Our bowl!)
Well Sister, AJ went and done it. We don't have to wait for the bowl scraps anymore. Just dip it and eat it!
The Concept: Red velvet cake batter dip. Seems pretty self-explanatory.
The Ingredients: (adapted according to the WIdTOTs below)
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. red velvet cake mix
1 c. powdered sugar
2-3 tbsp. milk
Strawberries for dipping
The Process:
1. Cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add the vanilla.
2. Beat in the red velvet cake mix 1 cup at a time, alternating with 1 tbsp of milk if You're having trouble incorporating the cake mix (I did).
3. Beat in the powdered sugar.
4. Spoon some of the dip on a strawberry and enjoy!
WIdTOTs:
- Original recipe needs vanilla - The vanilla really helped sweeten and deepen the existing flavors when I added some to dip.
- Less powdered sugar - The original recipe calls for 2-3 cups, but after the first cup, the only thing the extra sugar did in this recipe was make the dip look slimey. The first cup did give the batter a slightly sweeter taste and really brought the mixture together; so I kept the first cup.
- The Kicker - The dip is actually better with strawberries than cookies - I made a batch of the sugar cookies suggested, but trust Me: try the dip on a strawberry. It's heavenly!
The Finished Product:
I was disappointed that the dip didn't pair better with cookies. BUT, the dip was amazing with strawberries.
Come on! It's cake batter as a dip!! How could that not be heavenly?
Enjoy!
-Cade
Do you have some nutrition information? :-)
ReplyDeleteI just worked this up using a calculator here: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
DeleteBy my estimation, there's enough dip to go on about 30 strawberries/cookies, or roughly about a tablespoon per.
Nutrition Facts 30 Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 75.9
Total Fat 5.9 g
Saturated Fat 3.6 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2 g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.6 g
Cholesterol 16.8 mg
Sodium 32.3 mg
Potassium 12.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate 5.4 g
Dietary Fiber 0.0 g
Sugars 4.7 g
Protein 0.7 g
Vitamin A 4.5 %
Vitamin B-12 0.7 %
Vitamin B-6 0.2 %
Vitamin C 0.0 %
Vitamin D 0.2 %
Vitamin E 0.7 %
Calcium 1.1 %
Copper 0.1 %
Folate 0.3 %
Iron 0.5 %
Magnesium 0.2 %
Manganese 0.0 %
Niacin 0.1 %
Pantothenic Acid 0.3 %
Phosphorus 1.0 %
Riboflavin 1.2 %
Selenium 0.4 %
Thiamin 0.1 %
Zinc 0.3 %