I don't know why but I've been craving for a bite of delicious red velvet cupcake since er, last week. No time to drop by bakeries to get em' so I decided okay, I can do this. I can bake for myself one! (All these thoughts running through my head while I was in the library doing my assignment sigh the thoughts of a foodie haha!) Halfway through my work, I combed the shelves of the Food section and grabbed Nigella's book. Made a quick dash to Cold Storage to get some of the ingredients and started baking as soon as I reached home heheh. Made some changes here and there to the recipe too. Happy trying! (:

Recipe:
Dry Ingredients
1 1/4 cups sifted plain flour
2 huge tablespoon cocoa powder (cos I like them more chocolatey!)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup fine sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla essence
2 eggs
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1/2 cup buttermilk (got mine from Cold Storage but another substitute is 1/2 tspn distilled white vinegar mix with 1/2 cup milk)
1 tablespoon liquid red food coloring
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1/2 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Heat oven to 180 degrees.
- Place butter and sugar in bowl and beat until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add vanilla.
- Make a paste of the food colouring & buttermilk.
- Dissolve baking soda in vinegar, add to buttermilk. (It will make a fizzy science project-ish sound hehe)
- Sift flour & cocoa powder & salt.
- Gradually add in the flour mixture, buttermilk and baking soda into the batter.
- Mix until smooth.
- Pour into cupcake cups!
- Bake 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven, cool 10 minutes, then invert cakes onto cooling rack and to cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Recipe:
1 cup of cream cheese (at room temperature)
1/4 cup of unsalted butter
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/4 cup milk (didn't really followed this cos I didn't want my frosting to be too runny)
- Beat the cream cheese till creamy.
- Add butter.
- Gradually add the sugar into the batter.
- Add the milk bit by bit, stopping when it has reached the desired consistency.
I piped the frosting using Wilson 2D tip! (:
Love, Nadia!
Looks so yummy.You're so talented!
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