Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

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In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. How to Serve Red Velvet Cupcakes. Here I've adapted red velvet cake into little red cupcakes and topped with a dollop of cream cheese frosting, they make for a colorful and tasty dessert for late winter picnics and are especially sweet for Valentine's Day or for the Fourth of July if adorned with some blueberries. Stick a toothpick in the middle of one to see if it comes out clean for doneness.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting:

1. Get Cupcakes
2. Take 4 tbsp unsalted butter
3. Make ready 3/4 cup granulated sugar
4. Take 1 large egg
5. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
6. Get 2 tbsp Red Food Coloring
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
8. Take 1/2 cup buttermilk
9. Make ready 1 cup AP flour
10. Take 2 tbsp AP flour
11. Get 1/2 tsp salt
12. Take 1 1/2 tsp distilled white vinegar
13. Take 1/2 tsp baking soda
14. Make ready Cream Cheese Frosting
15. Prepare 8 oz Cream Cheese
16. Get 5 tbsp unsalted butter
17. Take 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
18. Take 2 cup powdered sugar

Remember, these red velvet cupcakes will continue to cook as they cool. The best, classic, light and fluffy, soft and moist red velvet cupcakes recipe from scratch, topped with tangy cream cheese frosting, homemade with simple ingredients. Just in time for Valentine's Day, these cupcakes will be a wonderful treat for loved ones. With its rich and moist taste and texture, they are just as delicious as my Red Velvet Truffles as well as Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies and.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cupcake pan with liners.
2. On medium-high seed, cream the butter and sugar for about 3 mins, until light and fluffy. Add the egg and turn the mixture to high. Scrape the sides of the bowl and beat until well incorporated.
3. In a different small bowl, mix together the cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and red food coloring to make a thick paste. (The amount of Red Food Coloring you use is up to you, if you like a bright red use less, if you like a deeper earthy color use 3 tablespoons, but no more.) Add to the batter and mix on medium speed until completely combined. Scrape the bottom of bowl if necessary to ensure all the batter gets color.
4. Reduce the mixer speed to low and slowly add half of the buttermilk. Add half of the flour and mix until combined. Scrape the bowl and repeat process. Beat on high till smooth.
5. Reduce the mixer to low and add salt, baking soda, and vinegar. Turn to high and beat for no more than 15 seconds just so that everything is completely combined and smooth, but don't over mix!
6. Divide the batter evenly into cupcake liners and bake for about 20 mins, or until a toothpick is inserted into the center of the largest cupcake comes out clean.
7. Cool for 10 minutes and then remove cupcakes from pan and place them on cooling rack to cool completely for about an hour before frosting.
8. For the frosting: Take the room temperature butter and cool cream cheese and mix them on medium-high speed for about 2 minutes. Add vanilla extract and continue to beat till well combined. Scrape the bowl when necessary. Reduce the speed to low and add the powdered sugar in 4 additions, so as not to have it fly everywhere. Beat until frosting is smooth yet not overly beaten and runny. This makes plenty of frosting to pipe both into the cupcake to give it a filing as well as on top. So since there will no doubt be left over frosting, you can freeze it in an airtight container and save it for another use. Or if you would like you could just halve the frosting recipe to make less.
9. Can be stored in fridge for up to 3 days. However, it would be best to let them sit out for about 20 minutes so that they taste moist and fluffy, yet still slightly chilled.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, these cupcakes will be a wonderful treat for loved ones. With its rich and moist taste and texture, they are just as delicious as my Red Velvet Truffles as well as Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies and. Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are Delicious and sweet with a hint of tangy cream cheese. These red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are amazingly good. They aren't hard to make from scratch and they are well worth the little bit of effort.

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