Hello friends, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, happy New Year and a lovely Pongal! I know that I went missing again but back with a decadent vegan red velvet cake recipe! As I have mentioned before I'm trying to cut back on baking to get back on a healthy lifestyle. I have to do this because I completely lack self-control when it comes to sweets. So I have decided to cut it at the source itself!
During Christmastime I got an order to bake some cupcakes. Initially, I was requested to make egg free red velvet cupcakes but I told them that I haven't tried it so far and will stick to vanilla and chocolate itself. Actually, I have been avoiding the red velvet cupcakes all these days because I'm not comfortable using food colors and that too this particular recipe uses so much of it.
Also, it is quite difficult to find a vegetarian red food color. But being the baking enthusiast that I am, I did not want to miss the opportunity to try something new. So I started searching the web for a vegan red velvet cupcake recipe and found this in Food.com.
The recipe is all over the internet and supposedly has featured in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World too. This recipe is quite similar to the vegan chocolate cake recipe I have posted earlier, except that it does not use as much cocoa powder. These vegan red velvet cupcakes were crimson in color instead of bright red and looked more like beet cupcakes. When I try this recipe the next time for my family I'm going to use pureed beets instead of the food color.
This red velvet vegan cupcake recipe can also be used to make vegan red velvet cake. You can bake two layered cake. The recipe should be good enough to bake two 8 or 9 inch round cakes. What special way than to celebrate your special occasion with a vegan red velvet cake with vegan cream cheese frosting! Another interesting idea is to bake them in a mini muffin tin to make cute little red velvet vegan cupcakes. This size will be perfect if you are baking it for small children especially.
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Recipe
Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup Almond Milk (Non Dairy milk)
- 1 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 ¼ cups All-purpose Flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 tablespoons Cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ⅓ cup Oil
- 2 tablespoons Red Food Coloring (make sure that it's vegan)
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- ¼ teaspoon Almond Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners and grease it lightly.
- In a medium size bowl, mix together the milk and vinegar allowing it to curdle. This will take about 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile in a large bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in the sugar too.
- Once the milk has curdled, stir in the oil, food color and the extracts. Whisk it well to combine.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and slowly add the wet ingredients to it, stirring it until all the ingredients come together. Small lumps are okay. Take care to see that you do not over mix it otherwise you will not get fluffy cupcakes.
- Fill each muffin tin ¾ths full of the batter.
- Bake it for about 16-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cupcake comes out clean or with very little crumbs is okay too. Mine were done after 17 minutes.
- Transfer the pan to a wire rack and let it remain there for 5 minutes. After that remove the cupcakes from the pan and let it cool completely before you can frost it.
My Notes
Taste & Texture
Nutrition
Karuna Nair says
If I were to make this recipe in an 8 in cake tin how long should I bake it for?
Madhuram says
I'm thinking 23-25 minutes.
T. Hill says
Can you make the recipe without almond extract?
Madhuram says
Yes, of course.
Archana Pradeep says
Hi Madhu,
Earlier while i stayed in Germany, i was trying all ur recipes and enjoyed eating them. also posted comments too. now that we have moved to india, my baking has come down alot.. also noticed that my email id has not listed in ur website. however now wish to again retry this red velvet cake. could u please let me know the amount of beets to be substituted and in what form to be added?
thank you.
Madhuram says
Yes, your name sounds familiar Archana. Thank you very much. Maybe you can try this vegan beet chocolate cake instead.
Subasri says
Can I use butter instead of oil?
Madhuram says
Yes, you can.
Lauren says
This recipe looks wonderful but what oil is best to use?
Madhuram says
Any neutral flavor oil of your choice, Lauren. Vegetable oil, sunflower oil, canola oil or avocado oil which is my choice.
Shanah says
Was the all purpose flour bleached or unbleached and will it make a difference?
Madhuram says
It won't make any difference Shanah.
manu says
Can I substitute flour with whole wheat flour? Also how much will it take 2 bake it as a cake?
Madhuram says
You can try it with whole wheat pastry flour instead. Use the same quantity as the cupcakes but you will have to bake it as two 8/9 inch cakes or one 9x13 inch cake.
Janhavi Deshpande says
I tried your recipe. I used regular milk though. It didn't curdle, so I whisked yogurt and half of milk+vinegar mix. Still it came out pretty good. Thank you so much for wonderful recipe.
Madhuram says
You're welcome Janhavi 🙂
Ashley says
I make this recipe over and over! My friends and family love it!
Madhuram says
Thanks Ashley.
Allison K says
What kind of food colouring did you use? Gel or the drop stuff? (yes I know, vegan/vegetarian)
Madhuram says
The drop one Allison.
Ami says
How big a cake pan do you need to use the exact same recipe and get no left over or no need to make more?
PS, I tried beet juice, but it didn't work. How do you juice a beet to get the juice?
Madhuram says
A 9x13 inch pan or two 8-inch pans should work if my guess is correct. I once tried buying canned beets and blended it and used the puree. It doesn't get red though. More like a dark violet cake.
Monica says
You have to purée it in a magic bullet or a juicer. If you juice it you'll need to watch the liquid you add to the batter and trade out some of the water for it.
Kiran says
Used the exact measurements and they came out perfect, thanks for the recipe !
Madhuram says
You're very welcome Kiran.
Ina Shah says
Can I use cow milk? If yes, with fat or without fat? And can I bake cupcakes in air fryer in silicon cups?
Madhuram says
Yes you can use dairy milk, fat or non-fat. What is air fryer? I have only baked in an electric oven. So not sure how it will turn out.
Sheetal says
It's been 10min my milk did not curdle so I added one more teaspoon apple cider vinegar still it did not curdle...
Madhuram says
Weren't you able to see a different texture in the milk? It's quite strange then.
Spela says
My milk never curdled either, and I have used this recipe a few times already (I tried cow milk, lactose-free milk and soy milk, one at a time of course). I asked my grandma what could be wrong and she told me that you have to heat up the milk and then add vinegar. I tried and it worked (with lactose-free milk), I just had to cool it to a room temperature after.
Off topic: I LOVE THIS RECIPE, I just leave the red colouring out and make delicious brownies/cupcakes.
Madhuram says
That's great to know Spela. Thanks for the tip too. But either way it should work because of the vinegar. 🙂
Sheetal Totloorker says
Yes you are right Spela, that is exactly what I did and it worked. Thanks
Sheetal says
Can I use white distilled vinegar instead of Apple cider vinegar?
Madhuram says
Yes you may Sheetal.
Jaya says
I have rice vinegar. Can I use it instead of apple cider?? Also can you suggest a replacement for Egg replacer powder. It's not available here.
Madhuram says
I haven't used rice vinegar before so not able to guess. The replacement depends upon the recipe and will vary accordingly.
jacqueline bobcombe says
Awesome it comes out light and fluffy I did not believe there were no eggs, I tried one with eggs and this came out lighter, thanks
Madhuram says
Thanks Jacqueline.
Marta says
Can I use normal dairy milk in the recipe? I only need it egg free for birthday party. The rest is fine.
Madhuram says
Yes you can Marta.
gayathri says
As a cake what will be the baking timings?
Madhuram says
I'm thinking about 25-35 minutes. Test it as you go.