Assalamualaikum,
guys!
Frankly
speaking, I never bought red velvet cake whenever I went to a bakery. I would
order something else like Crème Brulee Cheese or Chocolate Indulgence. I like
the taste of the red velvet cake but still it is not my favorite dessert.
But still. I
do find red velvet cake sounds luxurious. LOL. I don’t know why. Maybe because
of the red colour. Or the velvety texture of the cake. I started to search for
the right recipe (right for me means familiar ingredients and I can easily get
them). I was still studying medicine at that time. Final year if I was not
mistaken.
Instead of
baking the whole cake, I put them into small cute cupcakes. I like cute things.
LOL. It was a success! Yeay! And I love the taste of the cream cheese melted
together with the cupcake. Yummy! I baked about 25 of them and I brought some
for my housemates. They love it! And since that day I continued baking red
velvet cupcakes for them every time I went home for holidays.
So, this is
the recipe that I got from Youtube. I can’t remember whose channel I was
watching. Sorry.
Red
Velvet Cupcakes!
Ingredients
for cupcakes:
250 gram
self-rising flour (250 gram all-purpose flour + 1 teaspoon baking powder)
1 teaspoon
salt
15 gram
cocoa powder (2 tablespoon) – make sure to level the cocoa powder
113 gram unsalted
butter (½ of 250 gram butter)
2 eggs
(grade A or B)
1 teaspoon
vanilla essence
1 cup of
plain yogurt
2 tablespoon
of red liquid food coloring
1 teaspoon
of white vinegar
1 teaspoon
of soda bicarbonate
Ingredients
for cream cheese frosting:
250 gram
Cream cheese
125 gram
unsalted butter
2 tablespoon
lemon juice ( or soursop juice)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoon
fresh milk ( or full cream milk)
60 gram of
sifted icing sugar
Step for cupcakes:
Pre heat oven at 175 degree Celsius. (IMPORTANT!)
Mix butter and castor sugar until butter become fluffy. It is done when the butter become pale in colour.
Put in the eggs one by one. Continue mixing the batter.
Meanwhile or after that, mix the red food coloring and yogurt together in another bowl. Mix them until the yogurt is no longer lumpy.
In another bowl,
sift the self-raising flour and cocoa powder. Put aside.
Alternately put
the flour and yogurt mixture into the batter. Mix them well.
In a small bowl,
mix the white vinegar and soda bicarbonate until they become foamy. Then
immediately mix them into the batter.
Continue mixing
the batter using spatula. Do not use electric mixer at this point.
Prepare the
cupcake papers.
Fill in the cupcake papers with batter until 2/3 full.
Bake the
cupcakes for 20 minutes in 175 degree Celsius oven.
Check whether the cupcakes are cooked or not by using cake tester or toothpick. It they are cooked, the toothpick will be clean.
Cream cheese
frosting steps:
Take cream cheese. Beat the cream cheese together with butter butter using mixer until soft.
Put in vanilla extract together with lemon juice or sour sop juice. Continue mixing.
Then, add in fresh/ full cream milk.
Finally, mix the icing sugar together.
Pipe the cream cheese on the top of cupcakes. Decorate with some cupcake's crumble on top.
