Mungkinkah saya ini meroyan RVC? Ha ha ha. Tak taula.. tapi I think RVC tastes like heaven!! I can just eat them and make them again and again and again. It's until I am creating excuses in order to bake these babies. I invited some friends over to have lunch at our place, and so I have to bake RVCs. A close friend at work's birthday is coming next week, and so I have to bake RVCs. Haishh parah dah ni :p
Some time during puasa I tried a new recipe, which is from Pi0neer W0man website. I love love love her website and the way she writes. Damn hilarious. Anyways, this recipe is slightly simpler than that of Joy0fbaking's. It always makes me cemas whenever I see steps like 'Combine and quickly pour in.. ' or 'Working quickly, add the ingredients....' because I always study my recipe and try things slow and steady :p so I dun want the word 'quick' to be in any of the steps I should follow hehe.
And one more thing that I found out, when I use real vanilla bean instead of the RM1.90 star-brand vanilla immitation essence, all my baked goods taste so so so so much better. In fact, I think that is the thing that's making all my cupcakes taste damn nice now. Well I'm gonna post all about the vanilla bean real soon (Arina and Lia, I hope you girls are using yours, kalau tak reti nanti I ajaq).
So here is the current RVC recipe that I'm using (the creamcheese frosting I still follow the recipe from Joy0fbaking/my previous RVC post, so I won't post again here).
Ingredients (yields 12 cupcakes) :
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1-1/4 cups Cake Flour
- slightly less than 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 whole grade-A egg
- 1/2 cup Buttermilk
- scrape 5cm Vanilla Bean
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Vinegar
- nearly 1 tbsp Star brand Cochineal Food Coloring
- 1 teaspoon Cocoa Powder
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line paper liners in cupcake pan.
- Sift together cake flour and salt. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, stir together buttermilk, egg, vanilla, and baking soda. Add vinegar and red food coloring and stir. Set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk/egg mixture until all combined.
- Add in the cocoa powder and beat until combined.
- Pour batter into prepared liners.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove pan from oven and allow cake to cool in the pan for 20 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool completely before frosting.
Selamat mencuba~~!
