Recipe: Appetizing Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Recipe: Appetizing Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 19 min
Cook time: 1 h
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Sponge; 60 gramsunsalted butter; 140 gramscaster sugar; 1 largeegg; 1/4 tspvanilla extract; 4 tbspred food colouring; 1 pinchsalt; 30 gramsunsweetened cocoa powder; 225 gramsall purpose/plain flour; 120 mlbuttermilk; 1/2 tspcider vinegar; 1/2 tspbaking soda; Frosting; 25 gramssalted butter; 125 gramscream cheese; 1/4 tspvanilla extract; 125 gramsconfectioners/icing sugar

Isabella Bennett

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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Top these classic red velvet cupcakes with a tangy cream cheese frosting and serve them at your next birthday party or backyard potluck. Frosted Cupcakes: You can store the frosted cupcakes at room temperature for a few days. Ha - apparently, my friends and I cannot. :) I ended up making two batches of red velvet cupcakes to take to a handful of events with friends this And then for those like me, hearing anything having to do with "cream cheese frosting" just seals the deal.

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A gorgeous red color, moist and fluffy, and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.

Really, really good red velvet cupcakes can be totally elusive, right?

You can have Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

You need of Sponge.
Prepare 60 grams of unsalted butter.
Prepare 140 grams of caster sugar.
You need 1 large of egg.
You need 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need 4 tbsp of red food colouring.
You need 1 pinch of salt.
It’s 30 grams of unsweetened cocoa powder.
You need 225 grams of all purpose/plain flour.
You need 120 ml of buttermilk.
It’s 1/2 tsp of cider vinegar.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
Prepare of Frosting.
You need 25 grams of salted butter.
You need 125 grams of cream cheese.
It’s 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract.
Prepare 125 grams of confectioners/icing sugar.

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He gave me a little lesson in what made a good red velvet cupcake - to him at least.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting step by step

Makes 12 cakes.
Preheat oven to 180°c/350°f/gas 4.
Line a 12 hole cupcake pan with paper cases.
Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until pale. Slowly add the egg until well incorporated.
In a seperste bowl beat the vanilla, colouring, salt and cocoa into a thick paste and beat into the butter mixture.
With the mixer on a slow speed, add the flour and buttermilk alternating each and begining and ending with the flour.
Stir the vinegar into the baking soda and fold into the mixture.
Leave to stand for 3 minutes.
Spoon the pan into the paper cases to 3/4 full.
Bake for 15 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack.
To make the frosting: beat the butter and cream cheese together until there are no lumps.
Add the vanilla and gradually add the sugar.
Either use a piping bag or a spoon to decorate your cakes once cool.

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