Red Velvet Iced Cupcakes

Once again we went away from our usual ‘The Bottled Baking Co.’ recipes for this bake, choosing a Sainsbury’s red velvet cupcake mix instead for a change!

James carefully added the dry mix into the mixing bowl, followed by the milk, and egg, before giving everything a thoroughly good stir with the wooden spoon.

James then placed 6 muffin/cupcake cases on the baking tray, making sure they were all sat properly in their places. We then spooned equal measures of the cake mixture into each muffin/cupcake case. James checked they were all about the same.

James then send Dad out to the kitchen with the red velvet cupcakes to put them in the oven, which was a Dad job anyway as the oven is ‘Hot! Hot! Hot!’

We then had the hard job of waiting for about 15 minutes until the cupcakes were ready to take out of the over to cool on the wire rack!

Once they had cooled, we whisked up the butter cream topping, and James added the red sugar crunch sprinkles before we spooned a dollop of topping on all of the cakes. Lots for tasty leftovers for James to lick and enjoy!

Sainsbury’s Red Velvet Iced Cupcakes Instructions

You will need:

Sainsbury’s Red Velvet Iced Cupcake mix
30ml Milk
1 Large Eggs
50g soft butter
6 Deep Fill Muffin Cases or Cupcake Cases.

Method:

Preheat oven to Fan 160, Conventional 180, Gas 4.

Place the cupcake cases in a baking tray

Empty sponge mix into a large bowl and add 1 egg and 30ml semi-skimmed milk

Mix well or whisk on medium speed for 2 minutes

Divide the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases

Bake in the centre of the over for approximately 15 minutes until risen

Remove from the oven, leave to cool in the tray for 5 minutes before transferring the cakes to a wire cooling rack.

Using an electric whisk, cream together the icing mix with 60g of soft butter until light and fluffy.

Once the cakes have completely cooled, top with the buttercream icing using a piping bag or palette knife. Decorate with the sugar crunch sprinkles.

These cupcakes were great fun to make, with the different stages all giving us plenty of things to do! Lots of things for James to lick clean too! Yummy!

All text and images © Mark and James Arnold / The Additional Needs Bake Father, except the recipe instructions and image of the Red Velvet Cupcake Kit, © Sainsbury’s