Route test: Red Velvet Cupcakes!

Last friday the 12th of July, the NOSH team decided to go down to Mandy's house to bake red velvet cupcakes, according to a recipe Mandy got online. As this was the first time baking for some of us, we were all very excited!

After being greeted by Mandy's super cute dog (who was just as excited as us, if not more) and getting the ingredients, it was time to get down to work!

Our dear editor Scott, who was so enthusiastic to bake that he was so happy to just sift the flour

Wei Sze and Dewi concentrating on sifting the sugar (it's really very tiring!)

Our sub-editor Pamela, who is trying to be funny with the eggs

She finally cracks the eggs into the bowl!

A mixture of egg, red food coloring, and a lot of oil (it doesn't look appetizing now but wait!)

The mixing begins

Wei Sze slowly adding the flour into the mixture while Dewi watches amusedly

Final mixture!

And into the oven they go! (You can see how excited Scott is)

Waiting for these babies to bake!


In the meantime, we got started on the cream cheese...

This is Mandy, hard at work creaming the cheese together

It's starting to look realllyy yummy!

And 20 minutes later... YAY THEY ARE DONE!!

Scott and Claudia putting the cream cheese into the piping tube

Mandy concentrating very hard on perfecting the cream cheese topping


THE FINAL PRODUCT

Much to our delight, our red velvet cupcakes tasted fine! In fact, they tasted really good. The inside was moist, but not too wet unlike some cupcakes which taste really soggy. However, we added abit too little red food dye, as our cupcakes turned out a very deep shade of red, and not the bright red color we were aiming for.

We were really proud of our cupcakes, and we couldn't have done it without Mandy. She kindly offered to lend us her kitchen to bake in, and as she often bakes as a hobby, she guided us patiently through the steps to make these cupcakes. We couldn't have done it without her expertise!

It had been a really fun day, and the NOSH team had a great time of baking together and spending time in each other's company. Definitely looking forward to the next time we get together to route test yet another recipe :)