Red Velvet Cupcakes...again! But went for a new decoration at least!

First a comment about the photos...I know they are really similar, but I wanted to show the flower 1st, and then the cupcake...then I would like to add the following...this blog is a story about disaster, cursing, complete annoyance and somehow, somehow, an ok finish! I am starting to think that's just me-I will always destroy my kitchen entirely in the baking process, want to kill Martha Stewart, have a nervous breakdown, and still something pretty may come out of it!
Andy took Lily out tonight, which gave me the evening to myself...considering the amount of yelling, cursing and foot stomping, and well general baby whining I did, it's a good thing he did. First, the red velvet-well, I still think it just tastes like chocolate. Could someone in America go out and buy a red velvet cupcake, wipe the frosting off and just tell me what it tastes like? If it just tastes like chocolate, than I will stop killing myself, just add LOADS of red colouring and be done with it! Anyway, this cupcake at least tastes good-but although the batter was red red, it just came out cocoa brown. No one could possibly recognize this as a red velvet.
Because I was tired of making cream cheese frosting-and honestly people, it just tastes like powdered sugar anyway, not like cream cheese...I made swiss meringue white chocolate buttercream. Again following Martha's instructions. Well she is starting to lose her appeal I say...she said to leave the chocolate to cool for 30 minutes while stirring once in awhile, and although that is what I did, in the last few minutes, it got hard. I tried to pick out the big pieces, but you guessed it, while piping, all the chocolate got stuck in the tip. *********************************************** that was a long explicit as I tried to squeeze it out to use another tip (didn't have a coupler for the big tip-so had to empty the bag to change it-you ask why not get rid of the cream by the top of the bag? Well, I didn't want to have big piece getting clogged in the second tip, did I now.
The only thing that worked out surprisingly good was the flowers. So there you go-hands full of butter, yelling, cursing, decorating and tadaaaaaa! My lovely flower red velvet white chocolate buttercream cupcakes! What do you say, eh? By the way, thank god for Bailey's...