Cakes

Eggless Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

These deep red spongy cupcakes are super easy to whip up and extremely scrumptious. The delicious and tangy cream cheese frosting on these put them over the top and surely make them irresistible. I baked these magical beauties for my son's Halloween Party. However they are sure to charm any occasion.

By Your Cooking Pal Published October 31, 2015

Prep: 20 min
Cook: 20 min
Serves: 20 cup cakes
Total: 40 min

Ingredients

Dry ingredients
1 cup ( approx 225 gms)All purpose flour (maida)
1 tbspCocoa Powder
1 tbspIcing Sugar /powdered sugar
1/2 tbspMilk Powder
1/2 tspBaking Powder
1/2 tspSoda Bi Carb / Baking Soda
Wet Ingredients
2 tbsp ( at room temperature)Butter
200 gmsCondensed Milk
1 and 1/2 tsp ( can change depend on the type of color used)Red liquid food colour
180 mlButter Milk
1 tspVanilla Essence
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
150 gmCream Cheese
1 and 1/2 cupsIcing Sugar
1/4 cupUnsalted Butter
1 tspVanilla Essence

Method

Step 1
For the Red Velvet cup cakes
Step 2
Line the cupcake baking tray with paper cups or aluminium tart cups.
Step 3
Preheat the oven at 250 deg C for 10 minutes.
Step 4
Measure all the ingredients and keep them ready.
Step 5
Also keep the Hand blender ready.
Step 6
Sieve the all-purpose flour atleast 2-3 times.
Step 7
Sieve the other dry ingredients once, cocoa powder, icing sugar and Milk powder.
Step 8
Mix all these ingredients in a bowl and keep aside.
Step 9
In another bowl except the butter milk, add all the other wet ingredients like the butter, condensed milk,vanilla essence and red food colour and blend well.
Step 10
Add the dry ingredients in batches, alternatively along with the butter milk.(do not add the dry ingredients and butter milk all at once).
Step 11
Keep blending after each addition.( however do not over blend them)
Step 12
Add the baking powder and baking soda and blend again and the batter is ready.
Step 13
With an ice-cream scooper fill in the batter in each cup.( Do not overfill them, only 3/4th full )
Step 14
Reduce the temperature of the oven to 180 deg C.
Step 15
Bake the cupcakes for 15 minutes at 180 deg C.
Step 16
Check with a skewer if it comes out clean, that indicates its done (if it doesn’t again bake them for another 5 mins).
Step 17
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
Step 18
In a bowl add butter and blend well with a hand mixer.
Step 19
Add the cream cheese and butter and blend together.
Step 20
Add vanilla essence and blend again.
Step 21
Then gradually add the icing sugar in batches , beating the mixture after each addition for 4-5 mins until the frosting is stiff enough.
Step 22
It is extremely important to allow the cupcakes to completely cool before you add the frosting on them or else the frosting on them will melt away.
Step 23
Add the frosting in a piping bag and make swirls on the cup cakes.
Step 24
You may further decorate them by adding sprinkles on them .
Step 25
These yummy beauties are ready to serve. Happy Baking :)