Easy Red Velvet Cupcakes
By: cully_c
Published: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:26am

Ingredients




60 grams butter at room temperature
1 egg
150 grams caster sugar
10 grams cocoa
10 milliliters red food colouring
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
120 milliliters buttermilk
150 grams plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
85 grams butter
375 grams Icing sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Preparation

1 Preheat the oven to 180C. 2 Cream the butter, egg and sugar together until light and fluffy. 3 Combine the cocoa powder, red food colouring and vanilla extract and once mixed add to the creamed butter mixture.  Mix well. 4 Mix the flour and baking powder together. 5 Add half the buttermilk and half the flour mix. 6 Combine well before adding the remainder of the buttermilk and flour and mixing further. 7 Add the bicarbonate of soda and salt and white wine vinegar (in that order), mix thoroughly for at least 5 mins. 8 Spoon the mixture into the  cases of your choice.  I used cupcake cases and my mixture made 15 cakes. 9 Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 mins or until the cupcakes spring back slightly when touched. 10 Allow the cupcakes to cool slightly before turning out onto a wire cooling rack. 11 The Frosting 12 Cream together the butter and the icing sugar. 13 Add the vanilla extract. 14 Slowly add the milk 1 teaspoon at a time until you reach the consistency you wish.  I ended up using 2 teaspoons. 15 Spread or pipe the frosting onto the cakes and get ready to munch!