For the cupcakes :
Ingredients:
1 & 1/3 cups of cake flour
3 tbsp of cocoa powder
1 &1/2 tsp of baking powder
Pinch of salt
60 g of softened butter
2/3 cup of white sugar
2 large eggs
1/3 cup of vegetable oil (not to the brink)
1/2 cup of buttermilk
1 tbsp of vanilla
1/2 tsp of white vinegar
1 tbsp of red food colouring
Instructions :
1. Cream the butter then add the sugar and cream together.
2. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. Add the rest of the wet ingredients (vinegar, oil, buttermilk, vanilla, red food colouring).
4. Sift in the dry ingredients. Be careful to not overmix !
Bake at 160 for 18 min.
Makes 16 cupcakes (fill to 2/3 of the tins)
For the cream cheese frosting :
Ingredients :
80 g of softened butter
170 g of softened cream cheese
Splash of vanilla
1/8 tsp of salt
2 and 1/2 cups of icing sugar
6 tbsp of cornstarch (or 3 Tbsp of arrowroot and 3 Tbsp of cornstarch)
Instructions :
1. Cream the butter then add the cream cheese.
2. Sift in the icing sugar in 5 times.
3. Add the wet ingredients.
4. Let cool in the fridge for about an hour.
5. Add the cornstarch until you find a good consistency.
Frost the cupcakes when they have cooled down. Keep refrigerated (otherwise the icing will melt)
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