Ingredients
CUPCAKES:
2-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cocoa
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups canola oil
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp red gel food coloring dissolved in 6 tbsp water (or 1 1 oz bottle)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
FROSTING:
1/2 cup butter
1 (8oz) package cream cheese
1 box confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare muffin tins with 24 liners
- Mix the flour, baking soda, and cocoa in one bowl, sugar and eggs in another, and oil, vinegar, food coloring, vanilla, and buttermilk in yet another.
- Add the oil mixture to the egg mixture and beat until well combined
- Add the flour mixture in small intervals, mixing well witah each addition
- Fill 24 liners up with batter 3/4 of the way full
- Bake for 25 minutes and let completely cool before frosting
- For the frosting, cream together the butter and cream cheese and add the sugar in small intervals until well mixed.
- Mix in the vanilla and frost the cupcakes!
