Red Velvet Cupcakes With Almond Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes

RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line muffin tins with paper liners.
• In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a large measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed for 1 minute, until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until combined. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients alternately in 3 parts, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, and mix until combined. Stir with a rubber spatula to be sure the batter is mixed.
• Scoop the batter into the muffin cups with a 2 1/4-inch ice cream scoop or large spoon. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean. Cool completely in the pans and frost the cupcakes with Red Velvet Frosting.
• Place the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on medium speed just until combined. Don't whip! Add the sugar and mix until smooth.

RED VELVET CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING (VEGAN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pans with liners.
• Whisk together the soy milk and vinegar and set aside to curdle.
• Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl and mix.
• Add the oil, food coloring, chocolate extract, Vanilla extract and almond extract to the curdled soy milk. Whisk well to combine.
• Make well in center of dry ingredients and gently fold wet ingredients into dry, mixing until large lumps disappear.
• Do not over mix, oryour cupcakes will turn out gummy - small lumps are okay.
• Fill cupcake liners about three-quarters full as these cupcakes will rise fairly high.
• Place in hot oven and bake 18-20 minutes until done, or until toothpick inserted in cetner comes out clean.
• Cool cupcakes in the pan for five mintues, and then transfer to a cooling rack or surface to cool completely.
• For frosting:.
• Using a hand mixer, cream together margarine and cream cheese until just combined, then whip in the powdered sugar in 1/2 cup batches.
• Scrape down the sides and mix until smooth and creamy.
• Mix in the vanilla.
• Keep tightly covered and refrigerated until ready to use.

RED VELVET CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• NOTE: Before starting to make these cupcakes, it helps if all the ingredients are at room temperature. Also, if you don't have a stand mixer, just use a hand mixer. I don't recommend mixing this by hand.
• Cream cheese frosting:
• In a large mixing bowl, mix together butter, cream cheese and vanilla.
• Slowly add powdered sugar. Mix until smooth.
• Refrigerate until it will hold its shape.
• Red Velvet Cupcakes:.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line cupcake pan(s) with liners.
• In a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, mix the butter and sugar until well creamed together, about 5-10 minutes.
• Add eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated. Add oil.
• Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
• Mix together vinegar and red food coloring.
• Slowly add flour mixture, red food coloring mixture and buttermilk mixture, alternating between all three and ending on the buttermilk mixture. DO NOT OVER MIX!
• Scoop dough into lined cupcake pans. Or fill until about 2/3s full.
• Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of cupcake comes out clean.
• As soon as cupcakes come out of the oven, put one cupcake in the freezer.
• Allow cupcakes to cool (about 1 hour) and either using a star-tip filled pastry bag or an ice cream scooper, frost cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
• Take the frozen cupcake and grate or food process until you get fine crumbs. Sprinkle over cream cheese frosting as a garnish.
• ***NOTE: If you can wait, these taste even better after being refrigerated overnight!

MOIST RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 12 cup muffin pans or line with 20 paper baking cups.
• 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.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter and frost with desired frosting.

RED VELVET CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with 20 paper liners. Whisk together cake flour, cocoa, and salt.
• With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, whisk together sugar and butter until combined. Mix in food color and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl as needed.
• Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two additions of buttermilk, and whisking well after each. Stir together the baking soda and vinegar in a small bowl (it will foam); add mixture to the batter, and mix on medium speed for 10 seconds.
• Divide batter evenly among lined cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer tins to wire racks to cool completely before removing cupcakes. Cupcakes can be stored overnight at room temperature, or frozen up to 2 months, in airtight containers.
• To finish, use a small offset spatula to spread cupcakes with frosting. Chill before serving.

VEGAN RED VELVET CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
• Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line with paper liners.
• In a liquid measuring cup or small bowl, combine the almond milk and lemon juice, stir with a fork, and set aside for 5-8 minutes until it appears curdled.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and coconut oil with an electric hand mixer until smooth.
• Add the the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, vanilla, apple cider vinegar, red food coloring, applesauce, and almond milk mixture, and stir with a rubber spatula until well combined.
• Use an ice cream scoop to fill each muffin cup about ¾ of the way.
• Bake for 20- 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean
• Make the frosting: In a large bowl, cream the vegan butter with an electric hand mixer until smooth. Add the vegan cream cheese. Sift in half the powdered sugar and beat to combine. Sift in the rest of the powdered sugar and beat again.
• Fold in the vanilla and lemon zest with a rubber spatula until well combined.
• Scoop about 2 tablespoons of frosting onto each cupcake and smooth out with a butter knife. Use a wooden skewer and more red food coloring to decorate to your liking.
• Enjoy!

RUSTIC RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place paper baking cups in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
• Make Filling - Place cream cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla and lemon juice in medium bowl. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Set aside.
• Make Batter - Prepare cake mix as described on box using the water, oil and eggs. Fill each muffin cup about 2/3 full with batter. Drop about 2 tablespoons of filling in center of batter.
• Bake in center of oven 22 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Place on wire rack; cool completely.
• Store covered in refrigerator.
• Garnish with powdered sugar, if desired.

RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 muffin pans with paper liners.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. In another large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar and vanilla.
• Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix on low speed until just combined and a smooth batter is formed. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Scoop batter into muffin cups until they are about three-fourths of the way full, making sure not to overfill. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the oven. Let cool completely.
• As cupcakes cool, prepare the cream cheese frosting: In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or using a large bowl and a handheld electric mixer, mix the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and butter on low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to high, and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula halfway through.
• Reduce mixer speed to low. Add the vanilla, increase the speed to high and mix briefly, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until fluffy.
• Once cupcakes are cool, frost, using a pastry bag with a large tip, or an offset spatula.