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Red Velvet Cupcakes

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I love anything red velvet and these are sooo yummy! There’s nothing quite like a red velvet cupcake is there? Mmm…so decadent and delicious! This recipe makes a lot of batter – I could actually make 2 cake layers and 6 cupcakes with this mixture. If you just want to make cupcakes it will make +- 24 cupcakes. If you just want to make a cake, it will make 3 layers in a round cake tin.

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Red Velvet Cupcakes and cream Cheese Icing Recipe

Red Velvet Cupcakes

  • Author: Louise
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 24 cupcakes or 3 layer round cake 1x
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Description

Decadent and delicious, this red velvet recipe will make 24 cupcakes or a 3 layered cake.

Ingredients

Red Velvet Cake

  • 2 ¼ cups cake flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/3  cups oil
  • 1 ½ cups castor sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon red gel food colouring (or 4 tablespoons liquid food colouring)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Cream Cheese Icing

  • 1 tub cream cheese (230g)
  • 2 tablespoons warm water
  • 4 cups icing sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease cupcake pans with butter or Spray & Cook.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the oil, sugar and eggs until well blended
  3. Now add the flour and buttermilk alternately and mix well.
  4. Add the baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt and mix until well combined.
  5. Add the vanilla essence and colouring and mix well.
  6. Fill the cupcake tins or liners 2/3 full.
  7. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cupcake comes out clean.
  8. Allow to cool for 25-30 minutes before icing the cupcakes.
Cream Cheese Icing
  1. Beat the cream cheese (I used my KitchenAid Blender on medium) until smooth and then add the icing sugar cup by cup and mix well after each addition.
  2. Add the water and mix well.

Red Velvet Cupcakes and cream Cheese Icing Recipe

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  1. sethu

    It is a quite easy and fun recipe to make…..I really enjoyed it,.

    ..please inform me for more easy recipes….

  3. Nurshafiah

    What can i use to substitute buttermilk? As i’ve been searching its out of stock. Any recommendations? With measures. Thanka a lot! 🙂

  4. Queen

    I can’t explain the mess I made out of this recipe. It’s been weeks since I made this and I can only open up and talk about it today. The measurement gave me a massive headache and there wasn’t anything velvety or red about the cupcakes I made. Something along the color of maroon. I’ve never seen anything like it. Feeling defeated, deflated and without an ounce of confidence