♥Red Velvet Cupcakes♥

Has been more than 2 weeks DD n DS' great grandma staying at hospital. I really don't know what the best thing to take with you when you go and see someone at hospital. Someone told me that I couldn't bring flowers, so finally decided to bake cupcakes for great grandma. Well, she loved them and said that they were like real ones.. well.. like the ones you get from the bakery, she meant.

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• 5oz/140g self-raising flour
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• Half tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 4floz/110ml buttermilk
• 1 tsp vinegar
• Half tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp red food colouring
• 2oz/60g butter at room temperature
• 6oz/170g caster sugar
• 1 large egg

• Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/gas mark 3. Line a 12-hole cup cake tin with cases.
  In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, bicarb and a pinch of salt. In a mug, mix the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and red food colouring.
• Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg a little at a time. Mix in a third of the flour mixture, followed by half the buttermilk mixture, then another third of the flour, the rest of the buttermilk and finally the last of the flour mixture.
• Divide the mixture between the paper cases. Bake for 20 minutes, until risen and springy - don't
  
  
  Decorate them with buttercream.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/3343601/Recipes-cupcakes-Sex-and-the-City-style.html