Red Velvet Cupcakes
12 delicious cupcakes, baked in 15 minutes
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Whitworths Sugar
6
25 minutes
15 minutes
Cupcakes
Buttery and soft red velvet cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 150 g of Plain Flour
- 1 tbsp of Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp of Baking Soda
- 50 g of Softened Butter
- 150 g of Whitworths Caster Sugar
- 1 Large Beaten Eggs
- 1 tsp of Vanilla Paste
- 100 ml of Buttermilk
- 50 ml of Vegetable Oil
- 1 tsp of White Wine Vinegar
- 1 tbsp of Red Gel Food Colouring
Cream Cheese Icing
- 100 g of Softened Salted Butter
- 225 g of Whitworths Icing Sugar
- 100 g Full Fat Cream Cheese, Stirred
Directions
Line a cupcake tin with 12 cupcakes cases
Preheat your oven to 160c/Gas 4
Sieve the flour, coca, baking soda and a pinch of salt into a bowl and mix
Beat together the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy
Then add the egg, vanilla, buttermilk, oil and vinegar until combined. Gradually mix the wet ingredients into the dried
Once combined, add the red food colouring until you have a deep red mixture
Pour the batter into the cupcake cases and bake for 15 minutes
While the cupcakes are cooling, make the icing. Beat together the butter and icing sugar until fluffy. Then beat in the cream cheese until well combined
Once the cakes are cool, using a piping bag (use a star nozzle) cover the cupcakes with the cream cheese icing