A friend at work gave me a recipe from “The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook” A bit of quick research found that they are a Bakery from the UK that specialises in American favourites – Go figure..
A quick flick through the book and I came across a recipe for “Red Velvet Cupcakes” ah ha! something new to try, a stop via Coles on the way home from work to pick up the different things needed… Have only just discovered there really is a thing called Buttermilk and it is different from normal milk…
The recipe.. (well part of it anyway)
Actual Cupcakes…
- unsalted butter, at room temperature
- caster sugar
- egg
- cocoa powder
- red food colouring
- vanilla extract
- buttermilk
- plain flour
- salt
- bicarbonate of soda
- white wine vinegar
Cream Cheese Icing
- Icing sugar, sifted
- Unsalted butter, at room temperature
- cream cheese, cold
This is how their cupcakes look....
I don’t actually think mine came out all that bad… Miekea tasted the first batch and after working out that the “red” colour was pretty strong… enough that both our tongues were red after having a cupcake the second attempt I reduced the amount of colouring 
and Miekea assisted with the icing
Cream Cheese icing always sounds pretty strange to me but apparently works pretty well..
My Attempt
My Attempt
Next recipe to attempt will be the marshmallow cupcakes…
