Cupcaking- Red Velvet Cupcakes

Thank you to my facebook friends and family for the inspiration, I was entirely out of ideas for this weeks baking so please keep any suggestions coming. 
So anyway this is one very nice recipe, the batter was smooth and creamy and the cakes rose beautifully.

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups plain flour

• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 1/2 cups caster sugar
• 1 cup buttermilk
• (Just a hint if you don't usually keep buttermilk around your house just add 1tsp of tartar powder to your milk and let it sit for a minute before adding it to your recipe. I never keep buttermilk I always use this method.)
• 250g unsalted butter, melted
• 2 eggs, lightly whisked
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2 tsp red food colouring
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• Frosting
• 250g cream cheese, at room temperature
• 300g (2 cups) pure icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence, extra
• 1/2 cup thickened cream
• (You can use 1/4 cup of milk if you don't have cream I just like the texture cream gives in the end result)

To Make

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Line muffin pans with paper cases. Sift flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Stir through the sugar. Whisk the buttermilk, butter, eggs and vanilla in a large jug until combined. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture. Add the buttermilk mixture. Stir until just combined. Stir in the food colouring.
2. Divide the mixture among the lined pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
3. Use an electric beater to beat the cream cheese, icing sugar, cream and extra vanilla until smooth. Pipe onto cupcakes.

I sprinkled each with a little bit of coloured sugar just for the added effect.