God Save The Cupcake

I decided to make these because last weekend I picked up some food colouring paste and I wanted to see if it was really more potent than its liquid cousin.  When rummaging through my baking drawer for some cupcake cases I came across some left over from the Royal Wedding last year so my red velvet cupcakes became Jubilee Cupcakes as it was sixty years since Elizabeth II's accession last week.  With the blue cases, red cakes and almost white frosting it seemed to just about work so I went with it.  I use Nigella's red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting recipe from Kitchen and this was definitely the best colour so far.  It's not easy to see from the picture but they really are bright red, it's glorious!  My piping has always been dire but the first outing of the piping set my husband bought me for Christmas definitely improved the process! Being bright red they would also be ideal for Valentine's day but I am rather fond of these as royalist propoganda in cake form.