I had never heard of Red Velvet cake until recently. Firstly, I tried some in the cafe at my work, then Crumbs and Doilies had it as their flavour of the month, then I saw them everywhere on all my favourite cupcake blogs. This was something I only tried this week and it's been a while since I've shared a recipe, so here goes:
Ingredients
- 1x large egg
- 100g baking margarine
- 100g caster sugar
- 75g self raising flour
- 25g cocoa (Green & Blacks fairtrade is my favourite!)
- 1 bottle of red food colouring (Silver spoon cake craft is the best for colour)
- Preheat your oven to 180ºC or Gas mark 4 or 350ºF
- In your mixing bowl beat together the margarine and sugar with a spatula until smooth.
- Break the egg and add to the mixing bowl, fold into the mixture.
- Add the flour and cocoa, mix together until you have a smooth batter. If you want to make it more chocolate-y just add more cocoa here but take out an equal amount of flour - make sure that whatever ratio you use, the flour and cocoa should equal 100g.
- Pour in the entire bottle of red food colouring (yes, the entire bottle! If you added more cocoa you will need more food colouring to make them just as red)
- Put the batter into a zip lock bag and pipe equally into cupcake cases.
- Put in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes. Once you think they are cooked press down on one of the cakes, if it springs back then the cakes are done!
- Frost with lots of cream cheese frosting and sprinkle with chocolate flakes or curls.
