Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cup cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red velvet cup cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Red velvet cup cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
My mom (who is an amazing baker) and aunt told me these were the BESTred velvet cupcakes they had ever eaten & wanted the recipe. It is a light and fluffy cake; some red velvet cakes are much more dense, but if you prefer a spongier cupcake, this one is for you. I overfilled the cups and many rose too high (although they made yummy muffin tops) - filling your cup half full makes a cake even with the paper edge. The BEST Red Velvet Cupcakes are a light cake with a beautiful red color and a slight chocolate flavor with a little tang from the buttermilk.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cup cake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cup cake:
- Get 2 1/4 Cup flour
- Get 1/2 Cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. salt
- Prepare 1 1/4 Cup butter
- Get 2 Cup sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Take 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Get 1 Cup sour cream
- Make ready 1/2 Cup milk or buttermilk
- Take 1 tbsp red food coloring liquid not gel
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. In another large bowl, whisk together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla. Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid.
Steps to make Red velvet cup cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
- In a large bowl, sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together.
- In a stand mixer, beat butter and sugar for 2 minutes.
- Scrape down bowl and beat again.On low, add eggs one at a time and add vanilla.
- Add sour cream.Add dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt…) alternating while adding the milk.
- Stir in red food coloring.Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 17-22 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
- Let cool and frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.
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