Green Velvet Cupcakes in a Mason Jar

Sorry this is late! I have some visitors this week so my schedule has been a little messed up but better late than never!


Are you ready for St Patrick's Day?? This year I decided to try a recipe I found off of Pinterest, and let me tell you most of the sweet/baked items I have found on Pinterest have not turned out well.  This one is a partial exception; the cake portion turned out well (I did change the recipe too so I am not sure how it would have turned out without me changing it) but the frosting was a disaster!


I decided I didn't want to bake the cupcakes in the mason jars themselves because I felt that would be too much cake and not enough frosting so I made the cupcakes and layered them in the mason jars.


The Green Velvet Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all purpose flour 
• 1 1/2 cups wheat flour 
• 2 cups sugar 
• 1 tablespoon cocoa 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 2 eggs 
• 1 cup oil 
• 1 cup buttermilk 
• 1 tablespoon vinegar 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 1 oz green food coloring 
• 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips

Directions:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. 
• Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with whisk.  
• Add in remaining liquid ingredients.   
• Whisk until blended and sit aside.   
• Pour your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients and mix on medium-high for about a minute or two until well combined
• Put the white chocolate chips in a small bowl and add 1/4 cup of flour and mix until the chips are well coated
• Fold the chocolate chips into the batter
• Pour the batter into cupcake pans.  
• Let cook for 10-15 minutes and than remove from pans. 

Cream Cheese Frosting (Should be called a glaze!-- DON'T USE THIS RECIPE!):
Ingredients: 

• 2 (8 oz) packages of softened cream cheese 
• 1/4 cup softened butter 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 1 bag powdered sugar (2 lb bag) 
• Milk as needed

Directions:

• Cream together cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a bowl until smooth 
• Gradually add in powdered sugar and continue mixing
• I added in milk as needed to get to a better consistency 

Putting them in jars!

It took me three cupcakes for each jar.  I unwrapped them and then put on at the bottom of each jar added a layer of frosting then repeat until it is full!  You can add some fun sprinkles on too!