We love cupcakes in our home and this recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes is easy and moist. I love these little droppers  filled with red velvet syrup that I picked up on Amazon  for my dessert.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

 

I love the dense, moist flavor of adding pudding to the cupcakes. Now I know this not a traditional red velvet cupcake because I did not add red food coloring to the actual batter. I thought by adding Torani red velvet syrup into the actual cupcake after it has been baked gives that delicious red velvet cake taste.

 

Easy Red Velvet Cupcakes

 

 

Makes 24 cupcakes

 

Ingredients

 

1 pkg chocolate cake mix

1 large box instant chocolate pudding

1 tsp cocoa powder

3 eggs

1/4 cup oil

1-1/4 cup water

cupcake liners

vanilla frosting

½ cup red velvet syrup

Directions

Preheat oven to 350.

Line mini cupcake pans with muffin liners.

In a large bowl combine the cake mix, pudding, water, cocoa, eggs and oil and mix well. About 50 strokes.

Pour batter into each of the prepared cupcake pans ¾ full.

Bake 18-20 minutes.

Cool completely

Pipe the frosting onto each cupcake.

Top with a crumbled cupcake.

Fill a small plastic dropper with red velvet syrup.

Insert into cupcake.

I love making these cupcakes and they are such a huge hit because you are allowing your guests to get involved and play with their food by injecting the syrup. These can easily be altered for a gory Halloween cupcake but to me they just look plain cute and delicious!

I love creating new recipes and Red Velvet is one of my favorites. Have a look at these recipes for brownies, donuts and cookies too. They are bound to quickly become recipes that you will make all the time.

Happy baking!

Honestly these cupcakes will be a family favorite! If you liked this red velvet recipes be sure to have a look at these other red velvet recipes too: red velvet cheesecake, red velvet cookies, red velvet brownies, red velvet black and white cookies, and pink velvet cookies.