Red Velvet Woes

This past mother's day I made a batch of Red Velvet Cupcakes with a Cream Cheese Buttercream frosting. I've made this recipe before and turned out really fabulous. Unfortunately, this batch was less than yummy :( I think I know what happened. I was really tired when making these and I didn't mix the ingredients correctly. The cupcakes ended up really, really dry. The frosting too had a mishap. As I was about to put the sugar in the cream cheese and butter mixture, all the family started coming and I grabbed the granulated sugar instead of the confectioner's sugar. So the frosting ended up being gritty. The taste was there but the texture was all wrong! So...lesson learned...when baking be alert, awake and set out the ingredients ahead of time (if you can)! I didn't even bother taking a picture of it. It was just wrong.