Easiest Way to Make Tasty Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes.

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

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes

1. Prepare of Cake mixture.
2. It's 1 large of egg.
3. Prepare 120 ml of buttermilk.
4. You need 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. You need 1 pinch of salt.
11. It's 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
12. You need of Frosting.
13. Prepare 100 grams of cream cheese.
14. Prepare 50 grams of butter.
15. You need 200 grams of icing sugar(confectioners sugar).
16. You need 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..