Strawberry frosted cupcakes. This easy recipe for strawberry cupcakes starts with a mix. Simply add strawberries and a rich cream cheese frosting, and you'll have an irresistibly cute and delicious cupcake for any special occasion. The frosting is made with pureed strawberries and strawberry jam. Strawberry frosted cupcakes

You can cook Strawberry frosted cupcakes using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Strawberry frosted cupcakes
  1. You need 480 g of flour.
  2. You need 240 g of sugar.
  3. It’s 240 g of margarine.
  4. You need 4 of eggs.
  5. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of strawberry essence.
  7. You need 500 ml of maziwa mala/buttercream.
  8. It’s of Buttercream recipe:.
  9. You need 1 kg of sifted icing sugar.
  10. You need 500 g of butter.
  11. Prepare 1 tsp of clear essence of choice.
  12. Prepare 60 ml of milk or whipping cream.

Imagine a light and buttery vanilla cupcake filled with chunks of fresh strawberries. Technically unfrosted strawberry cupcakes don't need to be refrigerated; however due to the fresh fruit, they only last a few days at room temperature until mold takes over (gross). Regardless, if you use cream cheese frosting (strawberry or plain), the frosted cupcakes do need to be refrigerated. These fresh Strawberry Cupcakes have a delicious strawberry flavor and chunks of fresh strawberries in the cake batter.

Strawberry frosted cupcakes instructions

  1. Preheat oven. I set mine at 160 degrees Celsius. Line up muffin tin with cupcake holders..

  2. Beat the margarine until creamy. Should be light and smooth..

  3. Add sugar to margarine. Beat until fully incorporated together..

  4. Add eggs, vanilla and strawberry essence. Ensure to mix well..

  5. Separately in another bowl you will have sifted the flour and baking powder together..

  6. Now in 3 batches add the flour alternating with maziwa mala. Sometimes I can use either milk or sour cream instead of mala..

  7. Fold in the flour using a spatula until fully incorporated into the wet ingredients..

  8. Spoon in mixture into the muffin tins to 2/3 full of the cupcake holders..

  9. Buttercream recipe: mix all the ingredients using a hand mixer for a good smooth finish. Do this for about 5 minutes. Pipe using a piping bag and assorted nozzles tips for different designs. One can also use assorted food colours to colour the buttercream..

Then they're frosted with strawberry frosting made from real berries for the perfect pretty-in-pink cupcake that's made from REAL strawberries. Have you ever seen a cupcake as pretty as these strawberry cupcakes? These Strawberry Cupcakes are made with chunks of fresh strawberries in the cake batter and are topped with a luscious pink Strawberry Buttercream Frosting. These cupcakes are just bursting with flavor and would go down a treat at any celebration! I've made it a couple of times since.