Red Velvet Cake always remind me of Valentines Day and of course, cupcakes are easy to share!
(I found those cute little silicone tea cup holders at the local Wal-mart… they’ll look just as cute in regular cupcake liners though too.)
Yield: 24
Red Velvet Cupcakes...
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Total Time
45 minutes
Ingredients
- Red Velvet Cupcakes:
- 2 1/2 C flour
- 1/2 C unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 C butter, softened
- 4 oz neufatchel cream cheese
- 2 C sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 C lowfat sour cream
- 1 bottle, 1 oz red food coloring
- 2 tsp vanilla
- Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 8oz neufatchel cream cheese
- 4 Tbsp butter, softened
- 2 Tbsp lowfat sour cream
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 4 C powdered sugar
- desired sprinkles
Instructions
- Cup Cakes:
- Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, in a medium sized mixing bowl; mix well. In a large mixing bowl combine butter, cream cheese and sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time; beating well with each addition.
- Add sour cream, food coloring, vanilla; mix well.
- Add dry ingredients 1 C at a time; mixing well with each addition.
- Mix just until incorporated.
- Bake 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove to cooling rack.
- Cool completely.
- Frosting:
- In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese and butter; mix well.
- Add sour cream and vanilla; mix well.
- Add powdered sugar 1 C at a time; mixing until incorporated with each addition. Using a 1M Wilton Star tip and a large piping bag; begin piping at the outer edge and circle frosting into the center.
- Garnish with desired sprinkles.
While we are thinking of yummy Valentine’s Treats- here a couple more from my blog for you to enjoy…
Valentines (no bake) Cookie Pops
Chocolate Valentine Whoopie Pies
Bake up some Red Velvet Cupcakes this year and I hope you enjoy all of these fun Valentines Baking ideas 🙂
Oh and…. Thanks for being patient while my site has been transferring over to a new server… it should be lickity-split quicker now! (Look for more improvements over the next few weeks!)
Yay! It’s Friday… let the weekend begin!!
xoxo~ Ruthie
Jackie says
February 9, 2013 at 10:57 pmThese loo great. And maybe I missed it, but how many cupcakes does this recipe normally yield?
Ruth says
February 10, 2013 at 9:40 amHi Jackie… This recipe is delicious and it yields 22-24 cupcakes. I hope you have a wonderful day 🙂 Stop by again soon xoxo~ Ruthie
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Winnie says
February 11, 2013 at 4:50 pmOMG – these are mouth watering photos!!
The cupcakes look GREAT
Ruth says
February 11, 2013 at 5:23 pmYou’re so sweet Winnie… Thank You for the fun comment! Have a fabulous day 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie
andi winslow says
February 12, 2013 at 2:01 pmYour cupcakes are very pretty. Wonderful idea for Valentines Day. I made red velvet a while ago and the recipe I followed used light brown sugar and I really liked but I am always drawn when I see red velvet and have not seen the recipe that I used. I have nothing to compare it with, have never made with regular white sugar. Guess I will have to try them both again. Very nice andi
Amanda says
February 13, 2013 at 5:52 pmJust made these and they came out absolutely wonderful! The frosting is perfect!
Ruth says
February 13, 2013 at 7:10 pmYay!! I’m SO glad to hear they turned out well… that makes me happy! Thank you for the fun comment 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie
Candace says
February 15, 2013 at 9:58 pmWhere did you get those adorable mugs for yor Red Velvet Cupcakes? Too cute!!
Ruth says
February 15, 2013 at 10:39 pmI just found them at the local Wal-mart… in the valentines section SO, maybe they’d be on sale now 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie
Cristina @ Just My Crazy Kitchen says
February 17, 2013 at 1:28 pmI just wanted to stop by and tell you that your pictures are beautiful and I love those silicone tea cups! Who doesn’t love red velvet on Valentine’s Day?
Ruth says
February 17, 2013 at 3:30 pmThanks so much, Cristina! You’re so sweet… I’m so glad you stopped by and please come back again soon! xoxo~ Ruthie