Red velvet cupcakes

Okay, so i know my cupcakes is not that red velvety. Well that's because i've ran out of red food colouring. Nonetheless, i think the cupcake is quite good and moist and perfectly a good combo with cream cheese frosting. I got the recipe from here.

Ingredients

• 300g (2 cups) plain flour
• 30g (1/4 cup) cocoa powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 315g (1 1/2 cups) caster sugar
• 250ml (1 cup) buttermilk
• 200g unsalted butter, melted
• 2 eggs, lightly whisked
• 1 tbs white vinegar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2 tsp red food colouring (in the comments they say it's not enough. try use 5-6 tsp)

Topping: even though i filled my cupcakes, there's still some leftover. Try make half the recipe if you don't want to fill your cupcakes or 75% if u wanna do like i did.

• 2 x 250g pkts cream cheese, at room temperature
• 300g (2 cups) pure icing sugar
• 120g butter, extra, at room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla essence, extra

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Line eighteen 80ml (1/3 cup) capacity muffin pans with paper cases. Sift flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Stir through the sugar. Whisk the buttermilk, butter, eggs, vinegar and vanilla in a large jug until combined. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture. Add the buttermilk mixture. Stir until just combined. Stir in the food colouring.

2. Divide the mixture among the lined pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

3. Use an electric beater to beat the cream cheese, icing sugar, extra butter and extra vanilla until smooth. Spread over cupcakes.

I did some tricks with my cupcakes.

First, make an indentation to your cupcake to help you cut a small round. I used my measuring spoon.

Then carefully cut a small round using a sharp knife.

Fill your cupcake with filling of your wish.

So, the cut out part look like this right?

Cut the cut out part to look like this.

Then put the cupcake cover back like this.

Put the frosting and decorate as u desire.

And then, when you cut/eat the cupcake, tada! it will look like this.

Pfft, ignore the out-of-focus pictures. Really should practice more.