Recipe: Perfect Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. Line a muffin tin with paper liners and spray with cooking spray; set aside. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing.

Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Parchment paper helps the cakes seamlessly release from the pans. Make the cake: Whisk the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, and salt together in a large bowl. You can have Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

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

Using a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together on. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking powder, cocoa and salt to a large mixer bowl and combine. In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. These homemade red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are soft, tender, springy, and moist.

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.

There's just enough chocolate flavor to satisfy your chocolate cravings, without being overdone. The smooth, rich homemade cream cheese frosting is the perfect complement to the cupcakes, and adds the right amount of zip and tang. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sour cream, milk, food color and vanilla. These red velvet cupcakes are the perfect serving size of sweet treat for any occasion.