Valentine's Day 2015, Cake #169 - Giant Red Velvet Cupcake and Small Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Dark Chocolate and Strawberry Hearts.
Red Velvet Cupcakes
makes 12 cupcakes and 1 giant cupcake ( Ø 15cm)
350 g self-raising flour
250 g granulated sugar
300 g soft butter
4 eggs
2 tbsp drinking chocolate
2 tbsp dark cocoa powder
100 ml water
2 tbsp red food colouring
1. Pre-heat the oven to 175C.
2. Beat butter and sugar until creamy.
3. Beat in eggs.
4. Mix together all dry ingredients and add to the batter together with water and food colouring.
5. Spoon half of the batter into a greased and floured Ø 15 cm cake pan and divide the other half equally into 12 paper cups placed in a muffin tin.
6. Bake the cupcakes for about 20 minutes and the giant cupcake about 30 minutes.
7. Let cool before icing and decorating the cakes.
Chocolate Hearts
Melt 100 g dark chocolate and pipe hearts on a silicone mat. Let set in the fridge for at least 15 minutes.
Strawberry Hearts
Cut strawberries in half and using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out hearts. You need either huge strawberries or a tiny cookie cutter! I was lucky to have both.
Vanilla Icing
150 g butter
300 g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Beat butter and icing sugar in a bowl until soft and creamy.
2. Add vanilla extract and then cream drop by drop to make sure the mixture does not become too loose.
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