I am making Red Velvet cupcakes for a friend for her birthday. I have never even had red velvet! So I have no clue what a good combo of frosting and filling would be. We talked about cream cheese because that seems to be standard, but she also wants rose swirls and I am afraid that cream cheese frosting will not pipe well and will just kinda mush the rose swirl design.

So, would it work to do a small amount of filling in cream cheese frosting and then pipe the swirls on top with buttercream?? Or would that taste funny? Ugh Help!!!

http://cakecentral.com/recipe/heirloom-frosting

The cream cheese as a filling would be good, and I think the Heirloom Frosting is the frosting that originally was paired with RV. Have you tried your cream cheese frosting as a "rose" because It may hold up, I have tried a few and done a rose bouquet and was fine.

Thank you for the reply!

That heirloom frosting sounds good! I think it would be a good filling. I am leery to try the swirls with cream cheese, but I did find a crusting cream cheese frosting recipe that seemed to have good reviews.... Ugh I am just very indecisive and don't want to end up wasting a ton of money. But I like hearing that you have done this before and that they held up! Gives me some confidence that it will work

This recipe will definitely hold rose swirls. It held vertical ribbons on the sides of a cake for me:

http://cakecentral.com/recipe/decorators-cream-cheese-frosting

It tastes great too!