Red Velvet Cupcakes

Who doesn't like Red Velvet Cupcakes? ...I'm not going to even go into who doesn't like them, because that is just blasphemy, trust me. I've had failures with red velvet and successes. This one is most successful one to date! There's a random ingredient too...coffee?! Yep, even if you don't like coffee, add it anyway. It makes the cake that much more moist and you don't even taste the coffee, mhm.

What you need:

1 1/4 cup of plain flour
3/4 cup of sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/2 tsp white vinegar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup of coffee
red food colouring

Cream Cheese Icing:
125 g cream cheese, room temperature
125 g butter, room temperature
2 1/2 cups of icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Ya Ready?

Preheat oven to 350 F/ 180 C

1. Put the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cocoa powder into a bowl and mix it all up!

2. In a separate bowl mix the buttermilk, oil, egg, and vinegar all together and then add the dry ingredients to it.

3. Add a few drops of red food colouring to the batter....my food colouring was terrible, but normal, not cheap-as food colouring will do the job! Go on and make it properly red, unlike I did.

4. At this point, chuck in that coffee. Mhm it does make sense in the end! Mix it beautifully.

5. Pour into a lined 12-count cupcake tin (of if you're me, put it into 4 mini cupcake trays) and bake for 20 minutes or until fully cooked (poke it with toothpick, make sure it comes out clean!)

6. While those bad boys are baking, make that icing! Simply combine the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract until it's nice and creamy! Easy!

7. When the cupcakes are fully baked, let them sit until they are cool enough to ice and go wild!

Serve em up. I put red sprinkles on miiiine!

Now eat the food!