Dessert: Red Velvet Cupcakes with Buttery Cream-Cheese Frosting

These little beauties didn't turn out as red as we hoped... actually barely red at all as we didn't have ANY red food dye or as Nigella calls it 'Christmas-red paste food colouring' so these supposed to be red velvet cupcakes turned into sunny caramel cupcakes as I added yellow food colouring to replace the red. A mistake I made when I was whipping together the butter and the sugar was that I didn't melt the butter for long enough, so I made some sand like stuff. I pulled the cubes of butter that hadn't combined yet, out and put them back in the microwave. The cream-cheese frosting was amazing, it made the perfect texture, so when you bit through both the cake and the frosting you got this mouth full of flavour, it was perfect. I would defiantly make these cupcakes again, but I wouldn't leave them in the oven for as long as I did.

Don't ask why I put grapes in this photo, I thought it looked good :)