Red Velvet Peppermint Roll and GIVEAWAY!
This morning I woke up and was smacked with Christmas spirit. I chose not to partake in the bruise inducing chaotic Black Friday mania, staying home instead to bake and canoodle with the mutt. Of course, I shouldn’t forget that Michael Buble made a brief appearance singing Christmas music into my ear and and straight to my soul. Seriously, is there anything that man can’t do? Modern Bing Crosby he is, with a rendition of White Christmas that will turn any girl into a puddle of her former self.
But that’s all beside the point. It’s the day after Thanksgiving and we can officially start to get into the Christmas spirit. So, I did so with a Red Velvet and Peppermint Roll.
Every family seems to have a traditional cake roll of somekind. Mine included. My step-madre’s Fogg Logg is legend.
I figured I could put a more wintery twist on this classic treat.
With a box of Red Velvet mix generously given to me by Duncan Hines as part of the FoodBuzz Tastemakers program, and some chilled wintery air I went to work.
For your grocery list include:
~ 1 box Duncan Hines Red Velvet Cake Mix*
~ 3 eggs
~ 1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
~ 1 1/4 cup Water
~ 1 brick Cream Cheese, room temp
~ 6 Tbsp. Butter, room temp
~ 1 cup Powdered Sugar
~ 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
~ 3/4 tsp Peppermint Extract
~ Extra Powered sugar for dusting.
Extra Supplies:
~ 2 lint free towels,
(or old clean pillow cases work great!)
For starters, I laid out the tea towels and gave them a hefty dusting of powdered sugar that would act as a releasing agent when the rolls are well, rolled.
After preheating my predictably unpredictable oven to 325F, two jelly roll pans were sprayed with Pam, and lined with parchment. After they were stuck to their respective pans, they were sprayed again and then floured. It’s all essential for getting a crack free roll.
After the batter was mixed according to directions, it was divvied up between the two pans and spread evenly.
Into the oven they both went, being rotated half way through to ensure they were cooked evenly. Here’s a little truthiness for ya’ – the back of your oven if notoriously hotter than the front, so always rotate your baking half way through to ensure it’s cooked well all the way around.
Once they are out of the oven, lay the sugared towels sugar side down over the pan.
Here is where it gets a tad tricky and an extra pair of hands help. Flip the pan over, cake and all allowing it to fall onto the towels with the parchment side up.
After removing the parchment, roll the towel tightly and allow the cool while all snug as a bug in the towel. In the mean time resource yourself a mixer, combing all the remaining ingredients, sugar, cream cheese, extracts and butter, until they are smooth and combined.
Gently unroll the cake from it’s caccoon and slather on the deliciously creamy filling and roll ‘er back up. It’s best to let it chill for at least an hour before serving. But then slice away and try not to hoover too much yourself.
Nothing like a slightly chocolately and teensy pepperminty dessert fit for the holidays!
Now – for the GIVEAWAY!
With Christmas spirit in full swing, and TONS of baking to be done, it seemed appropriate to outfit two lucky people with a few necessary accoutrements to make a few wicked batches of holiday cookies.
And two mini loaf pans a piece never hurt anybody.
Each includes a dainty little snowflake cutter, statuesque pine tree, perfectly candy colored candy cane, and of course a ginger-dude.
To Enter (Mandatory):
Tell me, what is your favorite holiday tradition?
Are you Christmas Eve gift openers, or Charlie Brown Christmas watchers?
Leave a comment below and you’re entered to wine!
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The winners will be chosen by Random.org and notified on Friday, December 2nd.
Good luck and Happy Holidays!
*Obligatory Author’s Notes* The giveaway prizes are furnished by yours truly, because who are we kidding? I love shopping and anything bakeware. The Duncan Hines cake was provided by Duncan Hines and FoodBuzz as part of their Tastemakers Program. But the recipe – is mine all mine. Over and out.
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Yum … I am thinking I should be your neighbor 🙂 this would be incredible with a hot steamy cup of joe. My fav holiday tradition was when all my kids were still at home and we'd exchange Christmas ornaments.
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My favorite holiday tradition starts with corn chowder on Christmas Eve when we open one gift. Then, it's stockings the next morning and sausage casserole for breakfast. Followed by present opening, a big dinner and 24-hours of "The Christmas Story."
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Wowsa I'm so making this..it looks so easy it might even become a tradition…My favorite tradition is letting the kids open their stocking gifts before we all get up out of bed they all come in on our bed and look thru their stockings..I also follow you on Facebook and have liked Duncan Hines. I have no twitter I think you have to have a cell phone and I don't have service here…Thank You and Merry Christmas
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THIS. IS. BEAUTIFUL, Megan! I may just begin another tradition by making these every Christmas. 🙂 oxox
My favorite Christmas tradition is my mom's beef tenderloin and crab leg Christmas dinner…so so good!
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Megan this red velvet roll is STUNNING!!! I cannot wait to try it! As for a favorite Christmas tradition….making sugar cookie cutouts and letting my kids decorate them 🙂
Def a Christmas Eve gift watcher!
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Holiday tradition is to spend Christmas Eve with inlaws so everyone on husband's side of family can be together on Christmas morning.
Everything about a Christmas tree is my favorite part. The last couple of years we've spent Christmas in LA with Tim's family so I've missed that pine scent, the glow of the tree lights from down the hall, the decorating, the re-teaching the cat to not play with it or drink from it, etc. This year we're staying home and getting one! So excited!
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My favorite memory would be the birthday cake we make for Jesus. I make the cake the night before and in the morning we have a birthday party for Jesus. Cake and presents. Jesus gives us presents, because that is the kind of Jesus he is. The cake is Red Velvet cake with White frosting. red represent the blood of Jesus that he paid for our sins with. The white frosting represents purity, white as snow. This Giveaway would be perfect for that. Thank you for the chance:)
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the house for Christmas. We always do it late at night with the lights down low and a glass of champagne or hot cocoa in hand. I usually fall asleep on the couch next to the Christmas tree. 🙂
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oh my this looks good. i wonder if i could make it heart shaped for valentine's day. pics are gorgeous, as usual.
my fave holiday tradition is opening 1 gift christmas eve.
Ginger DUDE! haha… I love just a quiet day in front of the warm heater cuz fireplaces are rare, scooping a container full of tiramisu with a loved one. Still the best out of the best. (During christmas eve)
My favorite Christmas tradition is to open gifts with my parents (both in their 80s, God bless 'em!) and my hubby, on Christmas Eve, over a big steaming bowl of my homemade clam chowder, and lots of little munchie finger foods!
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I hope you and your family have a safe and blessed holiday season!
It's not Christmas at my house until I watch "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve while drinking hot cocoa with extra marshmallows. Flannel holiday print PJ pants are also essential.
PS – your peppermint roll is gorgeous, and your giveaway is too cute!
Fav tradition is picking out my 3 kids ornaments with them. I just love it!
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For our Christmas tradition, my husband and I get our Christmas tree on the first Wednesday of December, watch "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and eat Chinese food! Seems like a weird thing to do, but we've done it ever since we lived together. 🙂
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my favorite christmas tradition is baking cookies on christmas eve with my mom. when i was little we started out just doing cookies for santa but now that i am 27 the list has grown and grown to include over a dozen different cookies. after baking all day, we are always so exhausted that we just order chines take out. i love christmas 🙂
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What a great holiday recipe! It looks delicious! I love making and decorating holiday cookies this time of year!
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My favorite tradition is my family's Christmas Eve ritual. We go to church and then come home and have an all hors d'oeuvres dinner followed by a Christmas movie. I love it!
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This Peppermint Roll looks so delicious; I really have to try this! We are definitely Charlie Brown watchers. We started a new tradition about 8-10 years ago…we always have Christmas Eve dinner at our favorite Chinese buffet. Started out totally on a whim and has continued since. Even my brother and sister-in-law have started joining us now!!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is watching A Christmas Story while enjoying some freshly baked sugar cookies!
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What a wonderful combination. This really sounds delicious. I really have to give this a try. Have a wonderful day. Blessings…Mary
I love decorating cookies for Christmas!
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This peppermint roll is EPIC. I am a sucker for anything rolled:)
My favorite holiday tradition is ordering Pizza Hut pizza for Christmas Eve dinner. We have done it every year since I was 5 years old!
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Hey there, thanks for coming by my blog! I just subscribed to your purely by first impressions – anything with red velvet peppermint rolls has to be good (great!) Starbucks did a seasonal Christmas drink a couple years ago here in France with peppermint in it… it was a sad day in January when they stopped that!
I'd feel bad entering your giveaway when I only just arrived, but I'll share my favourite holiday tradition anyway – decorating the tree has gotta be it. Making Mince Pies, putting on some mulled wine, playing the cheesiest possible christmas songs and draping that fantastic smelling tree with all the baubles… that's what it's all about 🙂
What a beautiful red velvet peppermint roll! I just love those cake rolls 🙂 I love Christmas traditions… we usually have a lovely breakfast with mimosas and croissants, and open gifts afterward.
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oh wow this looks sooo delicious! our favorite christmas tradition is opening presents at my dad's house on christmas eve and then my dad will come over to our house on christmas morning and eat breakfast with us and spend christmas with us over at our house…Christmas is really hard on my dad and i both…we lost my mom on jan 1,1994 and christmas was her holiday…she used to decorate everything in the house and make it so beautiful…she even went through the trouble of decorating the fish tank for christmas….i am slowly but surely getting into the whole decorating thing like she did =)
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I'd love to make a red velvet roll or a pumpkin roll or just about any kind of rolled up baked good, but I'm terrified the dough won't roll and I'll get all sad. I do think your dessert looks fab, though. 🙂
Oh, our Christmas tradition? We have to listen to The Band's "Christmas Must Be Tonight" VERY loud Christmas Eve. It doesn't matter if we're in the kitchen or the car, it must be played loudly and no one talks. You can sing, but that's it.
I am a cookie making machine around Christmas. We love to give them away. This is a perfect giveaway!
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My favorite tradition is spending Christmas Eve cooking up a storm with my dad for our annual smörgåsbord, which includes his oyster stew. Even years that I can't go home for the holidays, I make the stew while I have my dad on the phone.
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mmmmm looks delicious Megs!
Tell me, what is your favorite holiday tradition?
Hmmm, well Megs now that you ask…and I'm sure you may well already know…I have a couple that I usually partake in. One is baking cookies from scratch, including the icing. One year I even made them anatomically correct ;D And two, baking baking baking. My family used to make baskets of food for friends and family for Christmas gifts. There's nothing like a gift that not only is one you can eat but is cost effective (especially from us poor college kids) and from the heart 🙂
Are you Christmas Eve gift openers, or Charlie Brown Christmas watchers?
When I was a kid we did everything. Christmas Eve gift opening and watch all the classic movies (i.e., Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, Santa Clause is coming to Town, White Christmas, Christmas story *you'll shoot your eye out; ehhem a little note for us logger girls*, and one of my new favs–Holiday Inn.–Can't go wrong with a little Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire on christmas!)
But my most favorite thing is to watch people open the gifts that I get them. I usually try my best to find them something that they will like or reminds me of them. Especially when it comes to my nieces.
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P.S., love that this says wine!!! lol Too bad I wasn't closer to you this time of year. I'd make you have some of that with me!! Love ya!
Our favorite family tradition is watching the Polar Express while sipping hot cocoa and eating popcorn with only the christmas lights on inside the home. So much fun!
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thank you for sharing your recipe… I’m just about to bake and realized after re-reading over again that there is NO time specified to bake these rolls. please advise? I know these are rolls so they are thinner than baking a regular cake. am I suppose to follow the cake time on the box? I can’t wait to devour this! thank you in advance.
That cake looks amazing.
Christmas tradition: decorating the Chrstmas tree and house from top to bottom with holy, tinsel and all manner of decorations.
Decorating the tree is the highlight of my holiday 🙂
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