Recipe: Red Velvet Cupcakes

I have heard about this cupcake a gazillion times. Everyone says it is super good. I have never tasted it nor tried to bake it. Suddenly a friend of mine told me about this and asked me to bake it. Immediately, I felt inspired. Hahahahaha! So I went on to get the recipe from a friend and tried it. It is really super good. The way to make this cake seems a little different to me and it turned out very nice. Here is the recipe.


Ingredients for cupcake
1. 290g of cake flour (not plain flour, CAKE flour)
2. 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
3. 1 teaspoon of salt
4. 300g of sugar
5. 1 and a half cup of vegetable oil
6. 2 large eggs at room temperature
7. 1 teaspoon of red colouring (only if you want, you don't have to actually)
8. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
9. 1 cup of buttermilk
10. 1 and half teaspoons of bicarbonate soda
11. 2 teaspoons of vinegar


Instructions for cupcake
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Sift the flour, cocoa and salt and set it aside.

2. With a mixer, mix the sugar and oil till it is blended. The add in the eggs one at a time and blend till it is pale yellow, like a paste. Then mix in the vanilla essence and colouring.

3. Reduce the speed of the mixer and add in the flour/cocoa/salt mixture in 3 batches, alternating with 2 batches of buttrmilk. So basically is adding in part of the flour mixture, and blend. Then buttermilk and blend and vice versa till everything is well incorporated.

4. Now mix the bicarbonate soda and vinegar in a separate bowl, it will bubble. Then add it into the mixture and blend it for only 10 seconds.

5. Pour the mixture to about half of your cupcake cups and bake for about 25-30mins. When you pierce the middle of the cake all the way through, it should come out almost clean, then it is ready.


Then let the cake cool and prepare the cream cheese frosting.


Ingredients for cream cheese frosting
1. 500g of cream cheese
2. 250g of butter
3. 200g of ICING sugar
4. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract


Instructions for cream cheese frosting

1. With a blender, cream the cheese till it is soft and fluffy. Then place it aside.

2. Now, in the same blending bowl which you just blended you cream cheese in, cream the butter. Let it blend till it is soft and creamy and pale yellow.

3. Then add in the creamed cream cheese and allow both the ingredients to be well blended.

4. Sift the icing sugar twice.

5. Once the cream cheese and butter is well blended, add in the icing sugar and blend well.

6. Then add in the vanilla extract and blend well. Then it id READY!


Spread over your cooled cupcakes and enjoy!


Here are some bad quality pictures.

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