Cup Cake Red Velvet

With its distinct look the popular red velvet cupcake is a top contender for favorite flavor.

Cup cake red velvet. Lightly oil and flour three 9 by 1 1 2 inch round cake pans. Sieve the flour cocoa bicarb and a pinch of fine salt into a medium bowl and mix to combine. These red velvet cupcakes are easy to whip up for your next get together. These red velvet cupcakes are easy to whip up for your next get together.

Red velvet cake is traditionally a red red brown crimson or scarlet colored chocolate layer cake layered with ermine icing. In a large bowl sift together the flour sugar baking soda salt and cocoa powder. 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. Some red velvet cakes are much more dense but if you prefer a spongier cupcake this one is for you.

Top them off with a cream cheese frosting that s just as tasty as the red velvet cupcake itself. It is a light and fluffy cake. However i am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy.

The icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Red velvet is definitely one of our biggest sellers at. Common ingredients include buttermilk butter cocoa vinegar and flour. In our family no one thinks it s christmas without this red velvet cake recipe.

Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting cooked the old fashioned way. Mix in sour cream milk food color and vanilla. Traditional recipes do not use food coloring with the red color due to non dutched anthocyanin rich cocoa. Historically red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder not from food coloring.

Overall the cake was nothing special. I baked the first one for christmas in 1963 when i found the recipe in the newspaper and my mother kept the tradition going into the 80s. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f. Heat oven to 180c 160c fan gas 4.

Ok you guys have been asking for it for ages and here it is the perfect red velvet cupcake recipe. Beetroot or red food coloring may be used for the color. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized as in stripped of acid. It s different than other red velvet cakes i ve tasted over the years since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow.

Look for a non alkalized one for this old fashioned recipe. It could be that i have no experience with red velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy.