The Most Loved Flavor: Red Velvet

So when researching online i found that the most popular flavors sold at cupcakery around the world is red velvet. Now i have never really had this flavor before, but my sister loves it soo much and has been begging me to make it. So with an amazing cream cheese frosting under my belt i decided to tackle it.  Looking at about 50 different red velvet recipes it seemed very weird to me to use vinegar, but whatever that's how it is. So i started my red velvet journey. I decided on red gel food coloring instead of the grocery store kind. I would need to use almost 2 full bottles to get the color i wanted and that seemed like to much. I didn't want the batter to be too watery. I also learned a valuable lesson when using cocoa powder, always sift it. There can be tiny lumps in the powder that you won't see until your adding your dry ingredients into the mixer. So anyway i continued along the red velvet road, and ended up at the baking soda, vinegar crossroad. I hate the smell of vinegar and working with it grosses me out (lets just say dying eggs at Easter not easy when you are using one hand to dunk and one to hold your nose, LOL). So i decided that i would go with a sweeter version of vinegar, apple cider vinegar. I figured the sweetness would make the cupcake taste good and the caramel color would help the red of the cupcake really stand out. Well, lets just say it worked and they came out so good. But i had to get the approval of my sister, after eating four cupcakes, i took it as a sign that she loved them!