Red Velvet Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Topping. Fluffy and moist, these buttery red velvet cupcakes are my favorite. The tangy cream cheese frosting puts them over the top! Over the past year, the most requested recipe on my blog is… red velvet.

These Red Velvet Cupcakes are soft, light, moist, and topped with an easy cream cheese frosting. These cupcakes are buttery, moist, soft, and taste just like a classic red velvet cupcake. The Best Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting. You can have Red Velvet Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Topping using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Topping

1. It’s of Cupcakes.
2. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of cake flour.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1 tbsp of cocoa.
5. It’s 1 1/2 cup of oil.
6. You need 1 cup of buttermilk.
7. Prepare 4 of eggs.
8. Prepare 3 tbsp of red food colouring.
9. You need 1 tsp of white vinegar.
10. It’s 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
12. You need 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda).
13. Prepare of Cream Cheese Topping.
14. You need 100 grams of soft butter.
15. It’s 1 of low fat plain cream cheese (tubs usually come in 250ml).
16. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of icing sugar.
17. It’s 1 tsp of lemon juice.
18. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

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Red Velvet Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Topping step by step

1. Beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla extract and food colouring until combined..
2. Add sifted flour, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa, as well as salt and sugar..
3. Spoon mixture into cupcake holders. (Tip: use a measuring cup in order to get the cupcakes to be equal sizes, I use a 1/4 cup).
4. Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes. (However every oven works slightly differently so I suggest checking on them after 15 minutes as you don't want to dry them out and 5 minutes can make a big difference).
5. Remove cupcakes from the oven and leave to cool completely before putting topping on..
6. Place all ingredients for the cream cheese topping in an electric mixer and mix until well combined. It should be an off white colour with a light and fluffy texture..
7. Put topping on cooled cupcakes and enjoy.

Everyone seems to enjoy Red Velvet Cupcakes covered with lovely swirls of Cream Cheese Frosting. Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, red-brown, crimson or scarlet-colored chocolate layer cake, layered with ermine icing. Traditional recipes do not use food coloring, with the red color due to non-Dutched, anthocyanin-rich cocoa. What you'll need to make Red Velvet Cupcakes. You should know right off the bat that these cupcakes are made with a lot of food coloring.