Christmas Cupcakes & Moscow Mule Recipe

Today I have been very festive and decided to give Christmas cupcakes a go and also learnt how to make a Moscow Mule cocktail. Here are the recipe’s for you to try too!

I chose red velvet cupcakes, simply because I felt the red was very festive plus I fancied a change from your normal vanilla cupcakes.

For the red velvet cupcakes
60g unsalted butter, at room temperature
150g caster sugar
1 egg
10g cocoa powder
20ml red food colouring (I used Dr. Oetker’s or you can use a paste colouring as
red food colourings vary in strength)
½tsp vanilla extract
120ml buttermilk
150g plain flour
½tsp salt
½tsp bicarbonate of soda
1½tsp white wine vinegar

Once you have made your cupcakes and let them completely cool down, it’s time to ice them! I used conventional butter icing as I don’t like creme cheese icing!

For the icing:

80g unsalted butter, at room temperature

250g of icing sugar

When mixing add a few tablespoons of milk gradually to get the thick creamy texture, and then you can decorate!..

When you want to tuck into your Christmas cupcakes make sure to make yourself a Moscow Mule, I found out about this when purchasing a copper mug from Urban Outfitters so I had to try this winter cocktail. Copper mug is optional but looks very Pinterest worthy 😉

I hope you enjoy these recipe’s and tweet me your photos if you make any of these! (@couponqueenemma)