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These Small Batch Red Velvet Cupcakes are delicious. They are fluffy and moist cupcakes that you do not want to miss – and this recipe makes a perfect 4 cupcakes!
Makes 4 Red Velvet Cupcakes
I love this red velvet recipe because they are small batch! If you don’t know, a small batch means that this recipe makes a smaller amount than usual. This recipe makes 4! It is so good because if you have a small group, you do not need to make an excessive amount of cupcakes!
Red velvet is always so fun because of how pretty they are. And they taste great too. They are so versatile and great for any event you have coming up! I’ve done all the math for you so you can make a small batch of cupcakes without having to divide or do fractions!
Ingredients Needed
- Cocoa powder – Red velvet isn’t chocolate, but there is just a touch of cocoa in it.
- Baking soda – This is how the cupcakes rise and get nice and fluffy.
- Vegetable oil – Keeps the cupcakes super moist.
- White Vinegar – The vinegar in red velvet cupcakes gives that signature flavor, helps activate the baking soda, and helps the red coloring pop.
- Food coloring: Red for the amazing coloring, but this works with any color! You can use gel food coloring or regular.
- Frosting: Cream Cheese Frosting is a classic pairing with red velvet.
How to make Small Batch Cupcakes
- Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
- Mix together oil, vanilla, egg, and vinegar.
- Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
- Add food coloring and stir.
- Divide evenly 4 cupcake liners. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean on the side (not necessarily in the center). Cool completely before frosting.
- To make the frosting, beat cream cheese and butter with a hand mixer until creamy. Slowly beat in powdered sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Frost as desired.
Expert Tips
- Cream cheese frosting is of course the classic frosting to go with small batch red velvet cupcakes, but you can use whatever frosting you’d like (vanilla buttercream is fantastic).
- Make sure you let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting so the frosting can stay on the cupcakes correctly.
- You can also bake these in 2 (8-ounce) wide mouth mason jars. Baking time will be 20-25 minutes.
FAQs
Yes you can! Store them in an airtight container to keep them fresh!
For sure! Just use a different food coloring–blue velvet sounds great!
Small Batch Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons (52g) all-purpose flour
- 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon (66g) granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon (1g) cocoa powder
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 4 tablespoons (60ml) vegetable oil
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon white wine vinegar
- ¼ – 1 teaspoon food coloring
- 4 tablespoons (57g) unsalted butter , softened
- 4 ounces (113g) cream cheese , softened
- 2 cups (226g) powdered sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a cupcake pan with liners.
- Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Stir in oil, vanilla, egg, and vinegar. Add food coloring.
- Divide evenly into muffin liners. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean on the side (not necessarily in the center). Cool completely before frosting.
- To make the frosting, beat cream cheese and butter with a hand mixer until creamy. Slowly beat in powdered sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Frost as desired.
Recipe Notes
- You can also make this in 2 (8-ounce) wide mouth jars. Spray two half-pint wide mouth jars with cooking spray. Set on a small cookie sheet.
- If you’re using gel food coloring you’ll only need a few drops.
- Use pink or red or any color you want for these cupcakes!
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Last Updated on October 6, 2023
Fantastic recipe! I love recipes that only make two portions – that way we can enjoy a greater variety of yummy treats. And good job on avoiding the urge to decorate the cupcakes following the BCA theme! I don’t think I could have been as grown-up about it, hehe.
Such a great idea to make pink velvet for pink week!!! You are so funny:-) Definitely crack me up all the time!!! And you know how I feel about treats in jars, so you know how much I love these!!!!
It comes as no surprise that pink is a favorite color of mine. And I’m so glad you’re spreading the awareness, Dorothy! What adorable cupcakes. Love the spin on red velvet. 🙂
I absolutely love that this is a 2-cupcake recipe! I’ve seen a ton of single-serving cookie recipes, but this is the first cupcake one I’ve come across. (Yes, I count two cupcakes as a single serving!) Can’t wait for my next cupcake craving! I’m totally prepared now. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful!!! In EVERY way! Thanks for sharing these cupcakes with us at Cast Party Wednesday! I hope you’re having a GREAT week! ~Sheryl~
I LOVE these, Dorothy! Such great pics, too–are they with the new camera? I’m really enjoying seeing all of the great posts for Pink Week–such a great cause.
Well, who doesn’t love boobs, haha!
These are so pretty. Love them!
OMG you cracked me up!! I love seeing a bumper sticker on a man’s pickup truck (yes, man’s truck…with a man driver) that says “Save the Ta-Tas.”
These cupcake jars are adorable. Glad you got to work some math in this post too 🙂
Well, there ARE two of these… where’s my invite? We should have a girl-date with some cupcakes and boob lovin’. After all, your own child was so excited about your boobs, she offered to show me yours! Lol. I STILL find that hilarious, despite the fact that you were straight-up humiliated (sorry). These are too cute and oh my god, I love your pictures, too!
I just LOVE these pink velvet cupcakes for 2… which, not to negate Breast Cancer Awareness or the word “TaTa’s” used in a food blog…. but these would also be perfect for Valentines Day! (which is also a breast holiday if ya catch my drift…) Raising awareness for such an important cause, there’s no better way than with food. Just love it!
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