These cupcakes are light, tender, super-moist with a hint of chocolate and so delicious!
Ingredients
- Cake flour – 1 & 1/3 cup
- Unsweetened cocoa powder – 2 tablespoons
- Baking powder – 1/4 teaspoon
- Baking soda – 1/2 teaspoon
- Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
- Buttermilk – 3/4 cup
- Liquid red food colour – 1 to 2 tablespoons
- Unsalted butter – 1/4 cup
- Sugar – 3/4 cup
- Egg – 1
- Vegetable oil – 1/4 cup
- Vanilla – 1 teaspoon
- White vinegar – 1/2 teaspoon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350° F.
- Line a cupcake tray with paper liners and set aside.
- Measure out the cake flour into a bowl.Add the unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Mix to combine and set aside.
- Mix the red food colour with the buttermilk and set aside.
- The quantity you use depends on how deep the colour is. You can also use gel food colouring. Mix it in, in little quantities until the desired result.
- Note: If you cannot get buttermilk, make sour milk.
- Put 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar in a measuring cup. Fill it up with milk till you get to the 1 cup mark. Mix to combine and set aside until it thickens. About 10 minutes. Use as needed. You only need 3/4 cup for this recipe.
- Put the butter into a mixing bowl and mix until creamy.
- Add the sugar and mix until combined. Mixture would be grainy because of the butter to sugar ratio. That’s fine!
- Add the egg and mix to combine.
- Add the vegetable oil and mix to combine.Note: You can use only oil for this recipe. Leave out the butter and use 1/2 cup of oil instead.
- Add half of the flour mixture and mix until it’s combined.
- Add the buttermilk and mix it in.
- Add the rest of the flour and mix just until it’s combined. Do not over mix.
- Add the vinegar and stir it in.
- Distribute batter into the lined cupcake tray filling about 1/2 way full. This recipe makes 14 to 16 cupcakes.Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
