Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

• FOR THE CUPCAKES:
• 2-½ cups All-purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Cocoa
• 1-½ cup Sugar
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1-½ cup Canola Oil
• 1 teaspoon Vinegar
• 1 teaspoon Red Gel Food Coloring Dissolved In 6 Tablespoons Water
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Buttermilk
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• FOR THE FROSTING:
• ½ cups Butter
• 1 package (8 Oz. Package) Cream Cheese
• 1 pound Confectioners Sugar
• ½ teaspoons Vanilla

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare muffin tins with 24 liners.

Mix the flour, baking soda, and cocoa in one bowl, sugar and eggs in another, and oil, vinegar, food coloring, vanilla, and buttermilk in yet another.

Add the oil mixture to the egg mixture and beat until well combined. Add the flour mixture in small intervals, mixing well with each addition.

Fill 24 liners with batter 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 25 minutes and let completely cool before frosting.

For the frosting, cream together the butter and cream cheese, and add the sugar in small intervals until well mixed. Mix in the vanilla and frost the cupcakes!