{"id":441,"date":"2012-12-14T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2012\/12\/14\/festive-food-train-red-velvet-cuppies\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:20:21","slug":"festive-food-train-red-velvet-cuppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2012\/12\/festive-food-train-red-velvet-cuppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Food Train: Red Velvet Cuppies"},"content":{"rendered":"
I never knew what’s the big deal behind the Red Velvet Cupcake until I baked and tasted it myself. It’s chocolatey rich, with a velvety-smooth cream cheese frosting which produces an irresistibly delicious combination. I always receive many compliments and requests to bake these cuppies at parties. When Jennifer of We are Dino Family<\/a> started this blog train to compile our favourite festive recipes, I knew I had to share this.<\/div>\n
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The secret to a good Red Velvet Cupcake lies in its quality ingredients – the best Valrhona Cocoa Powder and only the ORIGINAL Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The use of buttermilk reacts with the cocoa powder to give the cupcakes a distinctive texture.  Here’s a recipe which I personally use:<\/p>\n

For the Red Velvet Sponge Cake<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 Eggs
170g Castor Sugar
110g Unsalted Butter
180g Cake Flour (sifted)
1\/2 tsp Baking Soda (add into the flour)
1\/2 tsp Salt (add into the flour)
30g Valrhona Cocoa Powder
165g Buttermilk
1tbsp Wilton Red Food Colouring (mixed into the milk)
2tsp Nielsen-Massey Pure Vanilla Extract <\/p>\n

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Steps:<\/b>
1. Preheat oven to 180C. Line a muffin tray with 16 cupcake casings.
2. Sift the Cake Flour, Baking Soda, Cocoa Powder and Salt.
3. In a mixer, cream the Butter, Castor Sugar and Vanilla Extract on medium speed.
4. Add in the Eggs one at a time.
5. Alternate adding in the Flour mixture and the Buttermilk mixture (with red colouring). Whisk till the whole mixture is well-combined.
6. Scoop the batter into the cupcake casing about 2\/3 full.
7. Bake in the oven for about 18-20mins.
8. Remove from oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.<\/p>\n

For the Cream Cheese Frosting<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

250g Philly Cream Cheese (softened at room temp)
80g Unsalted Butter
2tsp Nielsen-Massey Pure Vanilla Extract
80g Icing Sugar (sifted)<\/p>\n

Steps:
1.  Combine all ingredients in a mixer and cream until light and fluffy at medium speed.<\/p>\n

To assemble the cupcakes:<\/b>
1. Fill the piping bag with a piping tip.
2. Fill the piping bag with the Cream Cheese Frosting.
3. Pipe the frosting onto the Red Velvet Cupcake as desired. Decorate with festive toppers and serve.<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas and enjoy your Red Velvet Cupcakes!<\/div>\n
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Chugging along to Dinomama\u2019s Festive Fare <\/a>blogtrain<\/div>\n

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Tomorrow is Baby Hiroshi<\/a> Mommy Irene’s turn to contribute a festive recipe. Irene laments it is amazing how much time & motherhood could change someone. She remember telling her hubby that she can neither do housework nor cook. Well, ten years later, she can do both and still handle 3 kids! Let this experimental chef who believes that all things are possible through a persevering heart (and google & youtube of course!) share with us how to cook a mean Roast Rack of Lamb<\/b>. Yummy!<\/p>\n

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I never knew what’s the big deal behind the Red Velvet Cupcake until I baked and tasted it myself. It’s chocolatey rich, with a velvety-smooth cream cheese frosting which produces an irresistibly delicious combination. I always receive many compliments and requests to bake these cuppies at parties. When Jennifer of We are Dino Family started this blog train […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,35,36],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59hHF-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}