Sweetings

February 14th . . . it's the placeholder for all things pink, red, and oh-so-very fluffy. As in, it's so fluffy I'm gonna die; as in, it's so fluffy my little heart might actually explode. It does go pitter-patter in the midst of all of the red and pink happiness, but I haven't actually had the opportunity to find myself standing in Target, or Paper Source (be still my heart), overwhelmed by all of the fluffiness this year. In fact, I haven't even gotten my husband a card for our very first married Valentines Day together. I was going to make him a card, but even that hasn't happened as yet (there's still time!). But, somewhere in this maelstrom of daily activity, my brain started to think in sweetings again. Cupcakes, cookies, and pies, oh my! And somewhere I decided that red velvet cupcakes were very, very necessary.

Specifically, red velvet cupcakes with fluffy frosting and dainty little cookies adorning the top. This is definitely red and pink fluffiness, dontcha think? And do you know, my valentine didn't even get to taste one, but that's ok, I know the way to his heart:  Mexican food.  That's what we're having for dinner tonight. I dithered and dithered about what to make my very anti-Valentine's Day husband:  should we have heart shaped pizza? But we've had a lot of pizza lately. An all red and white dinner? I didn't know about that -- it's kind of limiting, especially when tomatoes are seriously out of season. And then it hit me:  Mexican food. It's his favorite and it's spicy and perfect and I haven't made any in ages. So here's to Valentines Day and Mexican food and fluffy red velvet cupcakes with dainty cookies. I hope your hearts and hugs day is filled to the brim with pink and red fluffiness in whatever shape blows your proverbial skirt up. 

This is the red velvet recipe I used. It got rave reviews (red velvet isn't my thing -- I just don't understand the point of one measly tablespoon of cocoa powder -- so I'm not a good judge). If you want super fluffy mounds of icing, you'd best double the icing recipe.