Hello Readers!This is my first post in the space and I would like to share the recipe with something sweet .I love baking and I tried my hands on red velvet cake .My first attempt gave me Orange colored velvet cupcake.But I did not give up and I tried few attempts until I got the right colour.
Red velvet is a fancy cake where a person will fall in love at the very first sight.It is often frosted with cream cheese.But here,in Mangalore we do not get good quality cream cheese though I tried twice using Britannia cream cheese ,it did not give me the desired result.So currently I frost with buttercream.
Always remember one important thing, anytime while baking or cooking keep all your ingredients ready before hand so that you don't have to run around, mess up and panic. I was first inspired to bake this cup cake from a member of a food group (Vandana Pai Badal) .
Recipe adapted from : Joy of baking
Ingredients:
Self
raising flour or maida-1 ¼ cup
Baking
powder-1/4tsp
Salt- ¼
tsp
Cocoa
powder-1tbsp
Unsalted
butter-1/2 cup (room temperature)
Sugar-3/4
cup
Egg-1
large
Vanilla
essense-1/2 tsp
Buttermilk-1/2
cup
Red liquid food colour-1 tbsp
Mixture:
White
vinegar-1/2 tsp
Baking
powder-1/2 tsp
Method:
1)In a
bowl mix all the dry ingredients like flour,salt,baking powder and cocoa
powder.
2)In
another bowl whisk butter for few seconds and then add egg and whisk it again.
3)Then
add sugar,essence and whisk till smooth.
4)In
another bowl mix buttermilk and colour.
5)Add
flour and buttermilk mixture into parts into the butter batter whisking all the
time.
6)See
that lumps are not formed and scrape down everything from the sides and whisk
until you a get smooth mixture.
7)Lastly
add baking powder in the vinegar and add in the batter to get a frothy batter.
8)Grease
the muffin tray and fill the batter in the muffin cups until half.
9)Preheat
the oven and bake for 20 -30 mts at 150F.
10)Check
it with a toothpick if its done.
11)Take
it out and let it cool.
Cream
Frost:
Ingredients:
Cream
cheese-227g
Icing sugar - 11/2 cup
Whipping cream - 116ml / 2/3 cup
Method:
1)Whisk cream cheese and then add whipping cream.
2)Whisk
until creamy .
3)Refrigerate
it until until u use it.
4)Decorate
it on the top of the muffins either by using a nozzle or with the spoon.
