Sunday 8 February 2009

red velvet cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese frosting

I blooming love these cakes, and this was my first time of making them into cupcakes, and most pleasing was the result. I ended up making two batches in one week, and did eat quite a few myself, whoops! I used the recipe here for the batter and the frosting....this time I beat the frosting LOADS and I added some vanilla seeds scraped from 1/2 a pod to the mix as well, and lo I had a nice thick pipe-able frosting! Happy days. The first batch, for the team meeting... The second, for an order....and my tum....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had one of these puppies over at you know who's house - she will confirm that I went so far as to scrape the case to get every last bit of red velvety goodness.
Cream cheese is a substance that I do not understand, and perhaps fear a little. Cheese is savoury and to find it in desserts is a little bit wrong. But I must admit the topping was lovely.
Helen x

Anonymous said...

Hallo there just wondering, how long did you cook cupcakes for and what size cases did you use? Muffin or the standard cupcake cases please. by the way, these look delicious.

elle archer said...

Hi - they will bake in 20-25 minutes at 180C, rotate halfway through. I used muffin cases, are you in the UK? If so then you want muffin cases, not fairy cases...if you are in the US this may be different. I have measured the cases I use and they are 2" across the bottom and about 1.5" high - hope that helps! Elle x