How to Make Appetizing Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Classic red velvet cupcakes with a luscious cream cheese frosting. Red velvet cake is classic Americana cooking with its roots in the south. Deliciously festive, rich, flavorful, red velvet is like yellow cake but with a little kiss on the cheek of chocolate.

I should know because I used to be one. From red velvet brownies and red velvet cookies and red velvet cupcakes, I've had a lot of fun getting to know red velvet. In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla together until smooth. You can cook Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

1. You need of Sponge.
2. Prepare 60 grams of unsalted butter.
3. You need 140 grams of caster sugar.
4. Prepare 1 large of egg.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 4 tbsp of red food colouring.
7. You need 1 pinch of salt.
8. You need 30 grams of unsweetened cocoa powder.
9. It's 225 grams of all purpose/plain flour.
10. It's 120 ml of buttermilk.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of cider vinegar.
12. It's 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
13. You need of Frosting.
14. It's 25 grams of salted butter.
15. It's 125 grams of cream cheese.
16. It's 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract.
17. You need 125 grams of confectioners/icing sugar.

Add the sugar and on low speed, beat until incorporated. Garnish with chopped pecans and a fresh raspberry or strawberry. Cook's Note. *Frost the cupcakes with a butter knife or pipe it on with a big star tip. Sharing an amazing and easy recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting step by step

1. Makes 12 cakes.
2. Preheat oven to 180°c/350°f/gas 4.
3. Line a 12 hole cupcake pan with paper cases.
4. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until pale. Slowly add the egg until well incorporated.
5. In a seperste bowl beat the vanilla, colouring, salt and cocoa into a thick paste and beat into the butter mixture.
6. With the mixer on a slow speed, add the flour and buttermilk alternating each and begining and ending with the flour.
7. Stir the vinegar into the baking soda and fold into the mixture.
8. Leave to stand for 3 minutes.
9. Spoon the pan into the paper cases to 3/4 full.
10. Bake for 15 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
11. Cool on a wire rack.
12. To make the frosting: beat the butter and cream cheese together until there are no lumps.
13. Add the vanilla and gradually add the sugar.
14. Either use a piping bag or a spoon to decorate your cakes once cool.

These cupcakes are super-moist and fluffy and guaranteed to be your. This recipe for red velvet cupcakes includes an easy cream cheese frosting. The beautiful cupcakes are topped with a creamy cream cheese frosting. I prefer my cream cheese frosting to have more butter than cream cheese, but if you like a super strong cream cheese flavor, you can double the cream cheese and cut the amount of butter called for in half. This has been my go-to red velvet cupcake recipe for years and years and I'm sure it will.