The famous bakeries in New York whip these up in the hundreds its such a good experience to queue up for one these cupcakes with all the other cakes lovers looking for their daily sweet fix.
They are quiet easy to make but it's vital all your ingredients are weighed up correctly, and you have everything you need before you start.
If you don't like using artificial food colouring by all means use natural or omit it completely.
The recipe calls for white wine vinegar don't be put off by this. Adding the vinegar to the bicarbonate of soda causes a chemical reaction and it will foam up thus making the cupcakes deep red , light and fluffy.
Makes 12 (I used a smaller case so I got 18 baby cupcakes )
Pre-heat oven 180oc
Use a 12 hole muffin tray line with paper cases.
Ingredients :
50g soft butter
150g caster sugar
1 large free range egg
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons of red food colouring
2 heaped tablespoons of cocoa powder
150g plain flour
125ml buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
Icing ingredients
150g cream cheese
50g soft butter
100g icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method for cupcakes
Cream the soft butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs,pinch of salt, vanilla extract and red food colouring.
In another bowl add mix together the cocoa powder and plain flour.
Fold half the flour mix in to the butter mix.
Followed by half the buttermilk
Then repeat with the remaining flour and buttermilk.
Until the cake batter looks silky and smooth.
In a smaller bowl add the bicarbonate of soda to the vinegar mix until it fizzes up.
Add this to the cake batter stir well.
Divide the cake batter between all the cup cake cases.
Bake in the pre- heated oven cook for 20-25 minutes.
Check the centre of one with a skewer if it comes out clean they are done place on a wire rack to cool.
While the cakes are cooking make your icing.
Make sure the butter is soft and at room temperature.
Method for icing :
Mix the butter ,icing sugar and cream cheese together until smooth and creamy.
You can use a food processor or cake mixer with whisk attachment or by hand works fine too.
Top the cupcakes with icing you can pipe the icing or just smooth it on with a palette knife.
For decoration I have crumbed up one cupcake and sprinkled the red crumbs on top.
I also used some hundreds and thousands.
You can also leave them plain and will still look great.
Enjoy !
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