- Or until a toothpake that's, truth pake, toothpick.
Toothpick, not toothpake, we bake
cupcakes,
we pick with a toothpick,
alright.
Today on the Edgy Veg I'm going to show you how to make
pink cupcakes using an all natural food coloring.
(jazz music)
Valentine's Day is just a couple days away
and James is out of town, he gets back tonight.
So I thought it might be fun to cook him some
Valentine's Day cupcakes and show you guys how I make them.
I'm calling these pink velvet cupcakes
but they're really just basic vanilla golden cupcakes
with some homemade food coloring.
They're perfect for Valentine's Day if you're looking
to bake someone for your loved one or your girlfriends
for Galentine's day or whoever you want to celebrate with.
I'm going to be celebrating with the dogs
until James comes home, I'm very excited.
Say hi to the nice people Winston.
Look, Winston has his pink on, we're all pink
and ready for Valentine's day, oh wait Holly's here too.
We are waiting for daddy to come home,
okay.
The first thing we're going to do
is make pink food coloring using a beet.
A lot of food coloring is not vegan,
especially the reddish, pinkish colors because
they use Cochineal to make the food coloring, and that's
not something I'm interested in eating, so that's why
we're going to make our own food coloring today.
All you have to do to make your homemade food coloring
is take one beet and cut it up and put it into a blender.
You just want to blend that with a little bit of water
just keep adding water until it blends easily,
I probably should have used my smaller blender for this but,
I'm not a very good baker so the disaster starts now.
See just how I blend that until you've got yourself
blended beets, I mean what else is going to happen to it.
Now I'm going to push that through a fine mesh sieve
you can also push this through a cheese cloth
if you have that or like a nut milk bag
if you make your own nut milk at home.
And that's how you make home made food coloring.
Alright, let's move on to the cupcakes.
If you've been watching this show for a while, you know
that I'm not very good at baking.
I don't have the patience for decorating, I burn almost
everything unless I put a timer on which I, like
two out of three times forget.
Baking just really isn't my thing.
I'm more of a cooking person, like invite me over
and ask me to cook you an entire dinner party,
I can do that, but if you ask me to make cupcakes,
I'll probably screw them up on the first try.
To a large bowl, we are going to whisk together
1 1/4 cup of flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder,
1/2 a teaspoon baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon salt,
because they're pink cupcakes, I'm using pink salt.
The logic there is completely flawed because
it actually does not matter at all
what kind of salt you're going to use because
you can't see the color of the salt anyway.
Now I'm going to whisk that together until
there are no lumps left and just set that aside.
Onto our butter milk, to make vegan buttermilk
is actually super, super easy.
All you need is one cup of soy milk,
and one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar,
just whisk that together and let it sit
for about five minutes until it begins to curdle,
and voila, homemade buttermilk.
Oh, and the baking disasters have started,
I forgot to preheat the oven, preheat your oven to 350.
Do it right now.
Okay, I'm going to use my stand mixer for the rest of this,
if you do not have a stand mixer you can
just use a hand mixer, its really up to you.
To my stand mixer, I'm going to add 1/4 cup of vegan butter
as well as 1/2 cup of white sugar,
I'm using just cane sugar here,
two tablespoons of coconut oil,
and just mix that all together,
and add two teaspoons of vanilla.
Alright, now that we have our wet mixture,
lets add in our flour mixture and mix that together
until it's well combined.
Now at this point, you can decide whether you want
golden cupcakes or you want pink cupcakes.
I'm going to make mine just a little rosie pink
you can barely tell, just by adding a couple drops of
the homemade beet food coloring, just keep adding
food coloring until you get your desired color.
Itchy eyeball.
I'm not used to wearing this much makeup.
I haven't seen James in like two weeks so I put a lot of
makeup on today, I don't know if you can tell.
I feel like these cupcakes are going to feel
once I've iced them, I literally feel like I have
so much makeup on my face, I got cake,
like a Valentine's Day cake.
Okay, next part's super easy.
All you have to do is line a cupcake tin
with cupcake liners, I'm using a combination of different
colors of pink, you can use whatever you want.
Now I'm going to add the batter into each cupcake liner.
I only want to fill it about 2/3 of the way.
If you fill it up to the top, it's just going to
spill over and you're going to have a cupcake mess,
trust me, I've done it before.
Alright, let's bake those for 20 minutes or until
a toothpick that's inserted into the middle comes out clean.
We're gonna move those onto a drying rack and just
let them cool completely before we start icing,
which means we have lots of time to make our icing!
Woohoo!
For these cupcakes, I've decided to make a cream cheese
frosting, I just love, love, love the flavor of
cream cheese frosting so why not?
I'm making them, so that's what I like.
And we're gonna make it nice and pink
using the beet food coloring.
So excited for this, I love, love, love using food
to make other foods different colors.
If you want them to be yellow, you can use tumeric,
if you want them to be green, you can use some spirulina.
I know things sometimes.
Alright, anyway, let's make the frosting.
To the clean stand mixer, we are going to add
one cup of vegan cream cheese, 3/4 cups of vegan butter.
We're gonna beat that until it's nice and creamy.
Now we're gonna add 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
and then we are slowly going to add
one cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Now add one cup, beat it, and then add another cup,
and then beat it, and then add another cup, and beat it.
In the end, you're going to need about four to five
cups of powdered sugar until you icing is nice and fluffy.
Okay I'm taking out half of this plain white icing
and then we are going to dye the other half pink.
We are just going to add a drop at a time, the beet juice.
What, that's not a sentence.
Add the beet food coloring a drop at a time until you
get your desired hue of pink.
I'm going for like a baby pink.
Actually, I think it's called Millennial pink,
that's what we're going for, Millennial pink,
but you can make it super dark pink,
you can even make them red by adding a bunch,
trust me, beet juice is so bright,
you actually don't need to add a lot at all.
Just be careful if you're adding more liquid,
you're going to have to add more sugar.
Alright, I'm going to stick both of my frostings,
my white and my pink into the fridge
until our cupcakes are cooled.
Alright, our cupcakes are cooled, ugh, this is the part
I dread every time, I'm terrible at decorating things,
but we're gonna try today so if you are good at decorating,
your cupcakes are going to look
way better than mine and that's okay.
So I've put one of my colors into a piping bag
and I put the other color into a plastic bag
and I'm going to pipe just a simple swirl onto the cupcakes.
If you don't have a piping bag, a plastic bag is just
a really cheap affordable way, you just cut out
the tip and then you can use that.
(upbeat jazz music)
Alright, there you have it guys, pink cupcakes.
I'm so excited to eat you.
So my roommate is actually really good
at decorating cupcakes so she took the liberty of baking
another batch and then decorating these ones for me.
Mmmm
Oh my god, I bet I have cake all over my face
probably ruined the perfect makeup.
I've icing stuck to the roof of my mouth,
there's a lot going on.
Okay, heres the thing, so James doesn't like cupcakes,
or cake, so I really just make this stuff for myself, so I
have a feeling I'm going to be eating 12 cupcakes alone,
actually, no, my roommate will help me.
Oh my gosh these are so good, I just licked
almost all the icing off of my fingers.
So what are you making your loved one?
Are you doing anything, are you not doing anything?
Do you celebrate Valentine's Day, do you not?
Let me know in the comments section below.
Okay I have like this entire thing
of cupcakes to go eat now.
Alright there you guys have it, pink cupcakes for
Valentine's day or just if you want to brighten someone's
day, great for you significant other or gal pal, guy pal,
whatever, and if you're looking for more recipes,
buy my new cookbook, there are a couple baking recipes
in there than, um, I can make, so if I can make them
then you can make them, also this makes a great
Valentine's Day gift if your significant other is vegan.
You gotta get that Amazon Prime, get it in like two days,
it's perfect (laughs).
Alright guys, if you like this recipe, give this video
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recipes every single week and let me know what you guys
are doing for you significant others or your friends
on Valentine's Day in the comment section below.
Or if you hate Valentines day, also, let me know
in the comments section below.
This video is actually the first part of a three part
series that we are putting out for Valentine's Day
this week so we are going to do like a love week everywhere.
Today I'm going to show you how to make the cupcakes,
on Wednesday, I am going to release our wedding video,
yeah, remember that wedding that we told you guys about
that was going to be all vegan and we were going to film
the entire process, and then we wrote a book instead,
so that didn't happen, yeah sorry about that.
But I'm going to release the wedding video on Wednesday
and then on Friday, James and I are going to sit down,
eat some treats, and tell you guys all about our big day
and kind of where the idea came from and who we used,
and some quick tips and tricks if you are trying to plan
your own vegan wedding.
Make sure you follow us on Instagram because we will be
releasing wedding photos all week long.
Hip, hip, hooray for love week!
I love love and I hope that you love love
as much as I do too and I'll see you guys next time.
Bye!