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Red velvet cupcakes

Chocolate cupcake with a nice red color topped with an onctuous cream cheese frosting.

Note There are different variety of natural red coloring including beet and cochineal.

Ingredients

Recipe for 24 cupcakes

For the cupcakes

510 Gr

Flour

465 Gr

Sugar

9 Gr

Baking powder

18 Gr

Baking soda

255 Gr

Salted butter

255 Ml

Buttermilk

6 Unit(s)

Egg

1.50 Tsp

Red food coloring

45 Gr

Cocoa powder

For the cream cheese frosting

240 Gr

Cream cheese

240 Gr

Butter

800 Gr

Icing sugar

2 Tsp

Vanilla extract

Preparation time: 60 min

Preheat your four at 350 °F

Cupcake Preparation
Mix all dry ingredients: flour, colorant, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl, then sift the mix. Cream butter and sugar until the mixture is light and creamy. Stir in 1/4 of the dry ingredients alternately with of the buttermilk until everything is mixed. Incorporate the eggs.Fill cupcake molds half way and cook in oven about 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.Cool cupcakes 5 to 10 minutes in pans then remove cupcakes from pans to cool completely.
Cream Cheese Frosting Preparation
In a bowl, cream the butter with the cream cheese with electric mixer. Stir in powdered sugar gradually until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in vanilla extract.
To serve
Once the cupcakes have cooled, transfer the frosting to a pastry bag with a fluted tip and garnish the cup cakes. Decorate them with a few sugar beads.