These gluten free Red Velvet Cupcakes are moist and delicious! Topped with Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing they are a dessert that is hard to beat!
It is a Monday that doesn’t feel like Monday! Halleluiah!
I have spent the entire weekend covered in paint. When I cracked open the first can of paint I was 100% sure I was going to regret my decision to spend ALL WEEKEND painting by myself. Surprisingly enough, I have loved it. Mr. Maebell has been away on a hunting trip and he took the dogs with him so the house has been quite in the most fantastic way. Just me, a paint brush, and netflix.
We I have converted one of the spare rooms into an office. You heard me right, an office! Maebells is legit now! 🙂 It is getting a nice coat of mossy/light green paint and a gallery wall so I can finally hang some wedding pictures. It is so refreshing to change things up. While I was out it I repainted a bathroom too!
If there is one thing I am sure of it is that any type of home improvement should be rewarded. Which is exactly why I made these Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Icing. They seemed like just the way to treat myself after a weekend of spackle, sand paper, and paint!
Yields 12
20 minPrep Time
20 minCook Time
40 minTotal Time
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Ingredients
- For the cupcakes:
- 1 1/2 cups gluten free bisquick
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons dark chocolate cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup cold coffee
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup canola or coconut oil
- 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
- For the icing:
- 8 ounces of cream cheese (I used reduced fat)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla bean*
- *If you don't have vanilla bean just use 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract total
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder in a large mixing bowl until well combined.
- Add the coffee, milk, beaten eggs, oil and food coloring. Stir until mixture is completely incorporated and smooth.
- Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray, and carefully scoop the cupcake batter into the molds. (I used an ice cream scoop, it helps to give them nice round tops)
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until set and a tooth pick comes out clean.
- Remove cupcakes from tin and let them cool on a wire rack.
- While cupcakes are cooling combine the cream cheese and butter in a large mixing bowl. This is easiest if you use a stand or hand mixer. Beat the cream cheese and butter for 30-45 seconds or until they are fluffy. Add the sugar and vanilla extract and continue to beat the mixture until all the sugar is incorporated and the mixture begins to thicken.
- Cut open the vanilla bean and scrape or squeeze out the inside seeds. Beat the frosting about 30 more seconds so the vanilla is distributed evenly.
- Store icing in the fridge until the cupcakes are completely cool.
- Frost cupcakes and enjoy.
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They look delicious, red velvet cupcakes are one of my favorite food! I don’t know if I should try the recipe because I will end up eating all of them! 🙂
Wow- your photos look amazing Annie! Never really tried red velvet before, so will definitely be bookmarking your recipe! The icing looks lush! 😀
These cupcakes look so delish girl! That frosting is everything!
Sounds like you’ve had a great weekend, Annie! And how exciting that you now have an office with wedding pictures to hang! 🙂 And I agree, you definitely need these cupcakes to help celebrate. I’m a huge red velvet fan, so these look amazing! Love the vanilla cream cheese frosting, too. Pinned!
Those vanilla flecks in the icing are melting my heart away! Loving these cupcakes and that frosting,,,,, Oh I could eat that by the spoonful! <3
Absolutely have to reward yourself for all the hard work. Love it! And good to paint while others are out of the house. My parents were doing a painting project and their golden retriever decided to rub up against the walls (I guess he liked the smell?). So you can imagine the mess there!
Oh my! Our Husky got a little carried away with his tail once and paint was everywhere! I learned my lesson! 🙂
Uh oh, now you’re going to want to paint the rest of your house 😉 I have done 4 rooms now, procrastinating on the bedroom because there’s so much furniture in it! These cupcakes look amazing, and I would never guess that they are gluten-free! And i love those little specks of vanilla bean…yum!
I am so in the zone now! I have two half gallons left and I am itching to repaint other rooms! I can’t wait for my husband to leave again! hahaha!
Yay for Mondays that do not feel like Monday! How exciting that you’re getting an office now too. I have to say I love red velvet cupcakes, these look perfect! The icing on these looks beautiful 🙂
Thank you so much Danielle! This is the only way I know how to frost anything! ha!
Congrats on your not-a-Monday! I woke up feeling well rested for the first time in a while, so it’s been a good one for both of us 🙂 The frosting job on these babies is seriously flawless, kudos!
Thank you Medha!!
These red velvet cupcakes look incredible… Oh and that frosting .. YUMM!! I am drooling.. 🙂
Isn’t frosting the best part?! I love it!
These GF red velvet cupcakes are gorgeous Annie and that frosting is so pretty and perfect! The photos are stunning – I love that I can see the vanilla bean specks on the frosting 🙂 Yay for a new office too – you totally deserve a special reward like these cupcakes after all that painting and hard work! <3 these!
I think so too Kelly! 🙂 I really didn’t have plans to make a dessert but I thought why not?!
These cupcakes look like a wonderful reward for painting! I hate painting, but I’d do some to get one of these cupcakes 🙂
Love that you added coffee. I haven’t added coffee to red velvet before. Must try!
I was just kind of in the zone this weekend! ha! But these cupcakes were a great reward!
When we first bought our house, my husband went away for the weekend and I spent two entire days painting the whole house and when he returned he absolutely hated it! He has finally warmed up to it, but I still hate painting and definately won’t spend time painting the house unless I have the colors approved! These cupcakes sound like the perfect reward! Can I have them even though I didn’t just spend the weekend painting?!
Oh my gosh I would have died! Clayton is used to coming back with projects done…I have repainted walls and cabinets, tiled backsplashes, and ripped our floors when he has been gone! ha! Luckily I think he has liked everything I have done. At least he sure didn’t let me know if he didn’t! 😉
I love red velvet cake, and I love that this is a gluten free option! Your frosting swirls are so beautiful…love those flecks of vanilla bean!
Thank you Marcie! Vanilla beans are so good!