I have been on a cupcake baking frenzy lately. I am not a baker because it requires being precise which totally is not me. I tried this cupcake recipe for chocolate cupcakes a few weeks ago and they were awesome. So I decided to switch it up and try another from scratch cupcake recipe, Red Velvet Cupcakes.
These were really good, but I will admit my frosting needs some work. In my defense, I couldn’t find a recipe I was totally happy with so I combined some and tried to make my own. It tasted great, but the consistency was a little soft and it started sliding off the cupcakes. As a reinvent the frosting I will share it with you! Hopefully I will have it perfect by the time I post a recipe again.
But seriously, don’t these look like heaven in a little read cupcake?!
- ½ C shortening
- 1½ C sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 heaping Tbsp cocoa
- 2 bottles red food coloring
- 2¼ C flour
- 1 C buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 Tbsp vinegar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 package of cream cheese (8 oz)
- 1 stick of softened butter
- 4 C powdered sugar
- 4 Tbsp milk
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla
- Cream shortening, sugar and eggs.
- Mix cocoa and food coloring in separate bowl to create a paste.
- Add food coloring mixture to sugar mixture and blend.
- Add flour and buttermilk alternately, mixing as you go.
- Add vanilla.
- Hold vinegar over the bowl and add the baking soda to it. (It will fizz and bubble.)
- Gently stir this into the cake batter.
- Pour into muffin tins lined with cupcake papers.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 18 minutes.
- Top with cream cheese frosting.
- Mix all of these ingredients together until smooth. Add more powdered sugar if it’s too runny or more milk if it is too thick. Put this in a plastic bag and snip off the corner, then pipe it onto your cupcakes.
- Like I said above, as of right now my frosting is not the right consistency yet, but I am working on it. I couldn't find a recipe exactly as I wanted it because Red Velvet is a bitter (is that the right word) cake so I feel it needs a sweet frosting but I love the kick a cream cheese frosting has. But I also hate it when it tastes like you're biting into a brick of cream cheese on top of the cake. So I combined a couple recipes and saw what I got. I promise I will work on it and share the recipe when I get it perfect!
