Red Velvet Cupcakes with my niece

I've escaped Melbourne for a few days to hang out with my family. Made these beauties with a little help from my niece. Recipe will be up soon.

Alrighty. It's been a while but I thought you all could do with some indulgence. So get into these beauties as soon as you get a chance. Like I said earlier, my niece and I made them back in April, so they're dead easy.

Ingredients

• 2 cups plain flour

• 1/4 cup cocoa powder

• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

• 1 1/2 caster sugar

• 1 cup milk

• 200g melted unsalted butter

• 2 eggs, lightly whisked

• 1 tbls white vinegar

• 1 tsp vanilla paste

• 1-2 tsp red food colouring

1/2 cup icing sugar

200g unsalted butter, softened

Juice of 1/2 fresh Orange

Orange zest

Shredded coconut

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Turn on your oven and preheat oven to 160°C. Line your mini patty cake pans with paper cases. Sift flour, cocoa powder and bicarb into a big bowl and stir through the sugar. Whisk the milk, butter, eggs, vinegar, food colouring and vanilla in a large jug. I got my niece to do this and got the mixture all over my sisters kitchen, but couldn't get angry at her because she's just too cute. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture. Add the hot pink milk mixture and stir until just combined so that the mix is nice and velvety.
Divide the mixture among the lined pans. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
For the icing simply mix together the icing sugar and butter. Add orange juice until you get the desired consistency then stir through the orange zest. 
To finish, wait until the cupcakes are cool, then spread with the orange icing mixture and sprinkle over with shredded coconut. Delicious velvetty goodness.