Looking for cupcake recipe from scratch? Try these moist red velvet cupcake recipe. The gorgeous red color makes it a treat for eyes and a perfect cupcake for your romantic dates during Valentine.
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These eggless homemade red velvet cupcakes are my favorite. This super moist red velvet cupcake recipe is topped with cream cheese frosting. The slight hint of chocolate creates a buzz for kids of all ages.
Make these homemade red velvet cupcake recipe with cream cheese frosting and become a superstar in your next get-together. Game?
Let’s make the delicious red velvet cupcake
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To make Cupcake
Preheat the oven to 180 °C for 10 minutes.
In a large mixing bowl, sieve All-purpose flour, powdered sugar, Cocoa powder, salt, Baking powder, and baking soda together. This helps in even mixing of all the ingredients.
In another bowl take milk. Add vinegar to it and keep it aside for 5 minutes. The milk will curdle during this resting time and results in buttermilk. Add the good quality of food grade edible color to the buttermilk.
Whisk buttermilk, melted butter, and vanilla essence well. Now start adding dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
You can use a spatula or electric whisker to mix the ingredients.
Prepare a smooth and lumps free batter. Pour the batter into muffin molds.
Bake these muffins at 180 °C for 15 minutes in a preheated oven or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Once baked, take these muffins out and let them cool.
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For Cream Cheese Frosting
In an electric mixer beat the cream cheese until smooth. Start adding powdered sugar and cream it after every addition of sugar. Add vanilla extract and cream again. Continue to add sugar and creaming it until you get pearly sheen and gooey but separable consistency.
Fill it into a piping bag and use any nozzle for the frosting.
Your Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are ready to serve.
Buy Tools and Ingredients used in this recipe
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Homemade Red Velvet Cupcake
The moist red velvet cupcake recipe is always a show stopper for any get-together. The classic red color and the velvety feel makes this cupcake recipe as one of the most demanded homemade cupcake recipes. Learn how to make homemade red velvet cupcake recipe from scratch.
Ingredients
For CupCake
- 1-1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 tbs Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Red Color (Tomato Red)
- 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 cup Milk Lukewarm
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 1/3 cup Butter
- 1-1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1/4 tsp Salt (a pinch)
For Cream Cheese Frosting
- 200 gm Cream Cheese
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract (Pure)
- 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 2/3 cup Whipping Cream (Cold and heavy)
Instructions
For Cupcake
- Preheat the oven at 180 °C for 10 minutes.
- In a mixing bowl sieve all the dry ingredients together – all-purpose flour (maida), sugar, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Mix them well.
- Mix the milk with vinegar and keep aside for 5 minutes. The milk will curdle to form buttermilk. Now add color to this mix.
- Separately whisk the wet ingredients - prepared buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla essence.
- Add it to the dry ingredients and mix well with a spatula or with electric beater till there are no lumps.
- Now pour the batter in a cupcake mould and bake at 180 °C for about 15 minutes or until done.
- Remove and cool.
For Cream Cheese Frosting
- In an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Begin adding powdered sugar, creaming thoroughly after each addition.
- Mix Vanilla extract in the cream.
- Continue adding powdered sugar until frosting has a pearly sheen and thick, gooey yet spreadable consistency.
Notes
- Red food colouring will stain your hands, clothes and mouth, so use caution when handling.
- You must use a brand of heavy cream that whips very easily to stiff peaks.
- If the cream you are using don’t form the stiff peaks easily, whip the cream separately till it forms the stiff peaks and then fold with cream cheese.
Can this recipe be used to bake red velvet cake ?
Yes you can bake a cake using same recipe.
Hi Ma’am, Can we use vegetable oil instead of butter?
Yes you can try.
Hello mam instead of powdered sugar can we use castor sugar? And if yes will the quantity change ?
Yes, the same quantity.
can i use the same recipe for red velvet cake?
Yes, Neeta.
What is the cup size in all ur recipes ma’am…200ml red cup or 240ml black measuring cup??
Hi Shruti
I always prefer using weighing scale or 240 ml cup size.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
Mam here in recipe 1and 1/2 cup flour is their if we convert in to grams it’s 360 grams?
1 cup flour means 125 gm so 1 and 1/2 cup can never be 360 gm.
The cream cheese frosting would need non doary whipping cream or regular amul fresh cream?
Nina, in general we use non-dairy whipping cream for frosting.
Can i use curd or buttermilk instead of milk and veniger here? Pls suggest
I do not have veneger with me.
yes you can Vani
Hi
How can I replace the red colour with natural colouring? Will beetroot help?
Hi Prema,
Yes you can use beet here.Add 3/4cup of beet puree.wash and boil the beetroot and puree it in a mixer and you are good to go to make your red velvet cupcakes using beet. Hope this helps.
Thanks so much for the super quick response. Should I reduce the milk quantity so as to prevent a watery batter?
Hi
If you feel the batter is too runny you can reduce the quantity of milk to 1/2 cup.But for me this is perfect.
Mam I have beetroot powder (dry) if you have any idea how many tsp should I use to get the desired color?
Dear Nithya,
Using beetroot will not be a great idea as it will impact the taste and the color will not be that bright.
Thanks
Hi Shalini
I am using Philips and it just works fine for all my baking needs.About cream cheese I would suggest the best quality and thats philadelphia.Have not tried any other brand.Its easiky availabke on amazon and in super markets.Please dont compromise on the quality of ingredients.
Thanks
Hey Shalini, I prefer philadelphia.Its available in amazon as well as gourmet stores. Do try out and let me kbowbhow it turned out for you.
Paarul
hello,
Very nice! can you please guide me which cheese cream I should purchase?
Shalini
Dear Shalini, I will recommend the following from Amazon
http://amzn.to/2HFUzk7
Regards
Sonia
Hello Sonia,
Thanks so much. But I am cooking for my family only so I think this quantity will be too much. Is there any cream easily available in a bit less quantity. Also for home purpose can you suggest a whisker. I need to make cream and for the dough of bread.
Shalini
Hello Shalini,
I have been using Orpat Whisker from last 2 years and am absolutely happy with it. You can check the whisker from this link: http://amzn.to/2u5xXrk
About the cheese cream, the red velvet cupcake needs rich quality of cheese cream and Philadelphia is a tried and tested cream. Parul who is the owner of this recipe might be able to suggest something more.
Sonia