Red velvet cupcakes

A dozen Red velvet cup cakes!

It is a relief to get this one right. We have read a dozen or more recipes, half a dozen attempts and now finally! A few recipes combined we have our yum dozen of red velvet cup cakes.


Yield - 1 dozen


Ingredients


Sugar - 1 cup
Vegetable oil - 100 ml (slightly less than 1/2 cup)
Egg, room temperature - 1
Buttermilk, room temperature - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Red food coloring - 1 tbsp
Hot water - 1/4 cup
White vinegar - 1/2 tsp
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Unsweetened cocoa powder - 1 1/2 tbsp

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 180C 
2. In a large bowl mix together sugar and oil until well combined 
3. Beat in eggs until mixture is uniform in color 
4. Add in buttermilk, vanilla extract and food coloring 
5. Next add the hot water and distilled vinegar 
6. In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder. Mix well. 
7. Now combine the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients 
8. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners 
9. Pour batter a little more than half 
10. Bake to 18-20 minutes or do the clean tooth pick test (tooth pick will cause lesser damage than a fork!) 
11. Allow cupcakes sit in pan for 5 minutes 
12. Place cupcakes on a cooling rack to cool completely