The wait is over! Indulge in the luxurious taste of our Crimson Velvet Muffins, a moist muffin that packs the iconic red velvet taste. And don’t forget about the delectable cream cheese filling! These muffins are “crimson” instead of ‘red’ because their too great for such a simple, colored name. There’s many red velvet treats. There’s very few Crimson Velvet Muffins.
Why We Love Red Velvet
Sometime a craving for red velvet anything will hit, and it’s instant. You crave and want it. Now, with Crimson Velvet Muffins, you have an opportunity for the perfect morning breakfast. It does just enough to satisfy your craving, without feeling like you’ve cheated or overate.
With our love for red velvet, the history is still being debated, but what we know is this dessert emerged within the U.S. in the early 20th Century. What is aptly clear is the popularity this flavor of dessert has gained worldwide, starting from the 1920s on — after being featured in a recipe at the famous Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
When we think of red velvet muffins, we think sweetness, with a creamy cream cheese anything added. The muffin must be bright red or crimson, with a hint of a chocolate taste. Red velvet isn’t a chocolate cake; red velvet must have its own unique flavor, which Crimson Velvet Muffins offers.
Making Muffins Right
Muffin making is easy when done right. It’s the opposite of cake baking, muffins require strategy and patience. Many recipes say you must separate the wet and dry ingredients, but you mostly don’t need to — especially when you know how to bake and mix ingredients well. With baking, separating the ingredients are basically a requirement in order to create the perfect texture.
Muffin Texture
Crimson Velvet Muffins have a distinct texture compared to cakes and cupcakes, being more bread-like yet retaining a sweet flavor, and featuring a soft cream cheese center. To achieve such texture, you must separate the wet and dry ingredients, then combine both and mix for a short period time.
To Start
As stated previously, to start baking our Crimson Velvet Muffins, you must separate your ingredients. First, add all your dry ingredients, including: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. In a separate container or measuring cup, add your melted butter, milk, vinegar, vanilla extract, oil and red food coloring. Gel food coloring is best to not disrupt the texture of your muffin. Mix both set of ingredients well.
After both ingredients become well mixed, add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix for only a short. Short can mean a lot of things, but it truly means to be mixed for only when you stop seeing the flour apparent. That should take only 10-15 whips or stirs at most. The batter will be lumpy, but that helps with the bread-like texture. That’s what you want not a smooth, cakey batter so stop mixing! It’s best to use a ice cream scooper, when placing the batter into the cupcake/muffin inserts. The scooper allows for even distribution of the batter. This batter makes 8 standard-sized muffins.
Now Let’s Make It
Crimson Velvet Muffins
Ingredients
Crimson Velvet Muffins
- 155 g AP Flour
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- â…“ cup milk room temp.
- 30 ml canola oil vegetable oil, or any neutral oil
- 28 g unsalted butter melted
- 1 egg room temp.
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. white vinegar
- red gel food coloring
Cream Cheese Filling
- 4 oz. cream cheese room temp.
- 30 g granulated sugar
- ½ tsp. clear vanilla extract optional
Instructions
Velvet Muffins
- Preheat oven to 350 ℉.
- In a mixing bowl add all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking soda and powder, salt and cocoa powder.
- In another mixing bowl or measuring cup, add the egg, melted butter, milk, vinegar, vanilla extract and red food coloring. Mix altogether well.
- Add your wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix for a short period of time, about 10-15 stirs, or until flour isn't very visible. The batter will be lumpy, that's perfect!
- Sort the batter evenly between the muffin inserts.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, or until toothpick returns clean after punctured with muffin.
- Let rest for at least 30 minutes before adding the cream cheese filling.
Cream Cheese Filling
- In a mixing bowl, add very soft cream cheese, along with the sugar and whip well. Then add the clear vanilla and whip again.
- Place filling in a piping bag.
- Puncture a centered whole into the cooled muffins. Remove the excess muffin to open the whole. Then add the cream cheese filling from the cut end of the piping bag into the whole of the muffin.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Why We Love These Muffin!
Crimson Velvet Muffins will be one of your favorite muffins you’ve ever tasted, not just made. It inhibits the best of both red velvet and muffins. It has the bread-like goodness of a traditional muffin, along with the greatness of red velvet desserts. Who could resist the cake/cream cheese combo? Crimson Velvet Muffins will be your next go-to breakfast meal for the future starting now!
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