Recipe: Delicious Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes.

You can have Red Velvet Cupcakes using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes

1. You need of Cake mixture.
2. You need 1 large of egg.
3. It's 120 ml of buttermilk.
4. It's 1 tbsp of white wine vinegar.
5. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of red food colouring (liquid).
6. It's 180 ml of sunflower oil.
7. You need 200 grams of self raising flour.
8. Prepare 225 grams of caster sugar.
9. It's 1 tsp of heaped cocoa powder.
10. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
11. You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
12. It's of Frosting.
13. It's 100 grams of cream cheese.
14. Prepare 50 grams of butter.
15. It's 200 grams of icing sugar(confectioners sugar).
16. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.

Red Velvet Cupcakes step by step

1. preheat oven to 180°C..
2. whisk the egg in a bowl for a minute..
3. add buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla, and sunflower oil..
4. dump the flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and food colouring into the bowl an d mix together..
5. whisk for a few minutes until combined and smooth..
6. spoon into cupcake cases sat in a muffin tray so they are ¾ full..
7. bake in the oven for 25 minutes until risen and cooked - test with a knife and it should come out clean..
8. cool the cupcakes in their cases..
9. slice a little off of the top of the cupcakes to make it flat and keep the trimmings to one side..
10. for frosting.
11. beat the cream cheese and butter in a bowl until light and fluffy with the vanilla..
12. add icing sugar and stir until combined..
13. spread a little icing on top of the cupcake and crumble some sponge off-cuts on top to decorate..