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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing Recipe
Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe
Yield: 12 cupcakes
Recipe Credit: Kathryne over at www.foodmusings.ca
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 375 mL
2 Tbsp cocoa powder 30 mL
1/2 tsp baking soda 2 mL
1 tsp baking powder 5 mL
¼ tsp salt 1 mL
1 cup sugar 250 mL
½ cup canola oil 125 mL
2 eggs 2
2 tsp vanilla 10 mL
3/4 cup buttermilk 175 mL
¼ tsp concentrated red gel colouring 1 mL
2 tsp vinegar 10 mL
Directions:
- Line one muffin pan with paper liners. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir to combine. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar and canola oil and egg until thickened, about 2-3 minutes. Slowly add in buttermilk and vanilla. Beat until combined, about 1 minute. Stir in red gel colouring and vinegar until combined, about 20 strokes. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
- Divide cupcake batter into the paper lined muffin pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely on wire rack. Once cupcakes are cooled completely.
- Frost with Cream Cheese Icing. Recipe follows.
Cream Cheese Icing Recipe
Ingredients:
1 (8 oz/227 g) pkg cream cheese
¼ cup canola margarine 60 mL
3 ½ – 4 cups confectioner’s sugar 875 mL – 1 L
1 tsp vanilla extract 5 mL
Directions:
- In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and canola margarine until very smooth. Add confectioner’s sugar and beat well.
- Add vanilla and beat to combine ingredients.
Recipe notes: You can experiment with natural food colourings like beet juice (reduce liquid as you increase juice) but it will never produce the redness of using food colouring.