Cupid’s arrow cupcakes recipe

Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

This recipe is a combination of Buddy Valastro recipes. I absolutely love the Cake Boss, so in all my crazy research these recipes that I combined made the best sense. So please bake these and let me know what you think, I certainly loved it…for my first time!

Cupcakes (24 medium sized)

Ingredients:

375g butter

2 cups sugar

2 tbsp cocoa

20/40 ml red food colouring

3 cups flour (sifted)

¼ tsp fine salt

1 ¼ tsp vanilla extract

1 ¼ tsp baking soda

1 ¼ tsp vinegar

3 large eggs

1 ¼ cups buttermilk

Pre heat oven to 176 °C.

Mix together the butter, sugar, cocoa, food colouring, flour, salt, vanilla extract, baking soda and vinegar in a bowl. Mix together at low speed then on medium speed for 1 minute until well mixed. Add eggs one at a time, mixing through well after each addition. Add the buttermilk in 2 portions. Mix well after additions. Fill each cupcake liner ¾ full with the batter.

Frosting:

500g cream cheese

125g butter

2 ½ cups icing sugar (sifted)

1 tsp vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed until smooth. Add the icing sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Mix well until fluffy.

Decorations:

Heart paper print outs.

Straws

100’s & 1000’s

Red fondant

Cut the straw ¾ of the way. Clamp one end between players and heat with a lighter. The end will see. Fill with 100’s and 1000’s. Close the other end same way as before. Push straw through the baked cupcake which has cooled. Stick heart shaped print cut outs on either end of the straw.

Cut out heart shapes from red fondant. Place on top of frosting