Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I just love a frilly, festive and colorful dessert. They’re just much more fun to eat, don’t you think? Like savoring an absolutely delicious work of art… Not that these are art, but boy are they delicious!

Rich Red Velvet Cupcakes

To celebrate the just-passed Christmas season, and looking forward to the New Year ahead, I give you one of my favorite colorful and simply mouthwatering cakes. Red velvet. The name just oozes decadence and softness, everything that embodies this tasty, heavenly treat.

The cake itself is very moist thanks to a generous dose of buttermilk, and the cocoa powder (use one of good quality; I prefer Valrhona) sends each bite right over the scale of good and into amazing!

Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe

Combined with a bit of frilly, fluffy cream cheese frosting, the flavor of these red velvet cupcakes is a bit of melt-in-your-mouth heaven on earth.

As a gift for someone special, a delicious accessory to your New Year’s party dessert table, or simply a kitchen experiment, these cupcakes will definitely please. Until recently, my favorite cake flavor was boring old vanilla, but now that this red velvet recipe has come into my life, that has all changed. Try them for yourself and I think you’ll agree!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Yield: 10 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon red food coloring
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 10 cups in a muffin pan or line with 10 paper baking cups.
  2. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, red food coloring and vanilla. Stir in the baking soda and vinegar. Combine the flour, cocoa powder and salt; stir into the batter just until blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly.*
  3. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 15 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter and frost with desired frosting (I used my basic cream cheese frosting recipe).
  4. Enjoy!

Notes

Tip: For cupcakes that rise right to the top with no spill-over, fill the liners 3/4 full; a large cookie scoop helps

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  1. These cupcakes look so good and pretty.

    Best wishes for 2012, Georgia!

  2. These are gorgeous! One of my all time favorites.

  3. Beautiful cupcakes! Red velvet is one of my favorites!

  4. They look like a work of art to me! Love Red Velvet, so perfect for this time of year. Happy New Year!

  5. These cupcakes look so moist and delicious. I love red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Yum Yum

    Sending you Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year

  6. So cute! I love what you did with the frosting, perfectly festive! I want to eat one and it isn’t even 7:30 am :)

  7. Happy New Year, Georgia! Red velvet is my BIL’s most favorite cake, so I’m always on the lookout for a good one to make for him.

  8. Beautiful looking cupcakes!

  9. Lovely cupcakes! Have a happy new year!

  10. Oh dear these look sinful:)) and would love one right this moment after my lunch!:)))
    Wish you very Happy New Year!!!!!

  11. Gorgeous cupcakes :-). Happy and delicious 2012 to you, Georgia!

  12. beautiful cupcakes! look scrumptious!

  13. I always love a good red velvet recipe. Great post, look forward to reading more!

  14. This cupcake batter is divine! Such a simple recipe and quite easy to make.

  15. I have been wanting to make some red velvet cupcakes but using beets. Yours look really moist and yummy. I hope my experiment turns out good :-)

  16. Just finished making these cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting to take to a friend’s house for dessert tonight. Of course we had to try one first! So so good:)

  17. These cupcakes are beautiful and scrumptious!!

  18. what kind of tip did you use to frost!? I love them!

  19. Thanks! Wilton 2D.

  20. Do you use the same amount of food coloring when using the gel kind?

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