Red Velvet Cupcakes with Orange Buttercream

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Orange Buttercream
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Orange Buttercream might be just the American recipe you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 539 calories. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your valentin day event. If you have butter, cake flour, vanillan extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

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Make cupcakes: Preheat oven to 35
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Wrap each beet in foil, put on a rimmed baking sheet, and roast until tender when pierced, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
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Let cool. Peel, cut into chunks, and pure in a food processor. Measure 1 1/4 cups pure.
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Line a 12-cup muffin pan (1/2-cup size) with paper liners. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Set aside.
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Whisk together beet pure, granulated sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla in a large bowl. With a plastic spatula, stir in flour mixture one-third at a time just until smooth.
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Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each almost to the top of the liner.
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Bake until cupcakes spring back when gently pressed and a toothpick inserted in center of one comes out with a couple of moist crumbs clinging, 25 to 30 minutes.
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Let cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes.
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Transfer to rack to cool completely.
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Make buttercream: Beat butter with a mixer on high speed until very smooth.
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Add powdered sugar, orange oil, and vanilla; beat on low speed to blend, then on medium until fluffy and smooth.
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Spread a thick layer of buttercream on cupcakes, swirling it decoratively. Or pipe frosting from a pastry bag, using a star tip.
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Make ahead: Up to 1 day, chilled.
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*Find pure orange oil, an essential oil pressed from orange rind (and different from orange extract), at surlatable.com
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In2 hrs, 30 m.
Servings12
Health Score3
CuisinesAmerican
Dish TypesSide Dish
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