Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Moist, fluffy succulent red velvet cupcakes with tangy cream cheese frosting
Ingredients
For Cupcakes
- Maida (flour) – 160 gm
- Cocoa powder – 10 gm
- Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Cornflour – 30 gm
- Unsalted butter – 60 gm (at room temperature)
- Granulated sugar – 200 gm
- Eggs – 2 nos. (separate egg whites and yolks)
- Vegetable oil – 120 ml
- White vinegar – 1/2 tsp
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Buttermilk – 120 ml
- Food color red – 1 tsp (or as required to get the color)
- Paper or Silicone cupcake molds – 14 nos
- Fresh / Canned Red Cherries – 14 nos
For Frosting
- Cream cheese – 200 gm
- Unsalted butter – 115 gm (at room temperature)
- Powdered sugar – 300 gm
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Directions
- Pre-heat oven at 175ºC
- Sift maida, corn flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside
- In a medium bowl, whisk egg whites on high speed until soft peaks are formed. Keep it aside
- In a separate bowl, beat butter and sugar using hand mixer on high speed till butter looks light and fluffy
- Add oil and beat for another 2-3 minutes
- Add 2 eggs, vanilla essence and beat on medium / high speed until combined
- Beat in vinegar and food color, mix well
- Add maida mixture to butter-sugar mixture in three additions alternating with buttermilk. Mix with hand mixer after each addition just until combined
- Fold in whipped egg whites in the above batter with spatula. Don’t overmix
- Spoon the cup cake batter in the molds upto 2/3 full
- Bake cupcakes for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted at the center of the cupcake comes out clean
- Once baked, allow the cupcakes to cool completely on wire rack before frosting
For Cream Cheese Frosting
- While cupcakes are getting baked and cooled, prepare cream cheese frosting
- In a separate bowl beat cream cheese and butter together on high speed until fluffy and smooth
- Add sugar and beat again on medium-high speed (if frosting is no thick enough, you may want to add little more sugar so that it becomes thicker)
- Fit the piping bag with N2 nozzle, fill the piping bag with frosting
- Decorate the cupcakes with big swirl of cream cheese frosting
- Top it with fresh cherry
