OMG need I say more?!?! If you said yes, please leave this blog immediately I don't know you. For the rest of us cupcake fattys if you love strawberries you will love these cupcakes! And if you just merely like strawberries you will be completely smitten after you have these, guaranteed!
First and foremost a series of appologies:
1. sorry for the long hiatus it's just that this semester has been trying.
2. this post is long over due I've made these cupcakes like a billion times over since the first time I made them at the begining of the year.
3. sorry that they don't look very strawberry but this is the only picture I have of these lovelies and it's from my cousin's daughter's slumber party -which I was invited to and happily attended. Usually I just top them with a slice of strawberry but for the party, which was a pink theme, I went with pink sugar sparklings -which fit right in with the them and the birthday girl loved. Unfortunately it made the cupcake too sugary which I did not care for.
I got this recipe from my friend Katie's blog who got it from her friend Angie and if they knew I semi-homemade these I think they would kill me. I just want to say in my defense that I find making things from scratch very rewarding but at the same time I'm not proud I'll take help where I can get it and this time I got it in the form of... dare I say... strawberry cake mix! Again, Katie don't kill me.
Anyway, the cupcakes are so incredibly moist due to the addition of the diced strawberries and when topped with the frosting, well, it's nothing short of heavenly! The frosting is the absolute best strawberry frosting I have ever had. It's creamy, cream cheesy, and woven with such a delightful strawberry flavor you'd swear you were eating freshly made strawberries and cream -yep it's that good! One change that I made from my friend's frosting recipe is that I didn't use strawberry liquor. One, because I didn't have any and two because I was too cheap to go out and buy it -there I said it. Instead I used frozen strawberry juice concentrate. I couldn't find plain strawberry concentrate so I bought Old Orchard Apple Kiwi Strawberry juice and it gave me that intense strawberry flavor that the straberry liquor would have provided. Not only was this a more cheap -I mean economical- option but it's still in my fridge ready to go whenever I am.
Okay, I'll wrap it up now by saying that although this post is many months late it's just in time for strawberry season, so enjoy!
Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Recipe Courtesy of Good Things Catered via Angie
Ingredients:
1 box Pillsbury Strawberry Cake Mix
Whatever ingredients box calls for
2 cups diced strawberries
Frosting
1/4 c. strawberries
1 Tbsp. Old Orchard Apple Kiwi Strawberry Juice Concentrate
1/2 tsp lemon juice
8 oz. cream cheese, room temp
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temp
1 3/4 c. powdered sugar
Directions:
Preheat oven per package directions.
Line 2 cupcake pans with baking cups.
Prepare cake mix per package directions.
Gently fold in strawberries.
Distribute mix evenly amongst cake pans, usually filling cups about 3/4 of the way up.
Bake according to package directions, at the end of cooking time test center of a cupcake with toothpick. If toothpick comes out clean then they are good to go.
Transfer pans to cooling rack, rest for 5 minutes. After five minutes remove cupcakes from pans and continue to cool them on racks.
For frosting:
Put berries, juice concentrate, and lemon juice in saucepan.
Bring to a boil over medium heat and then reduce to a simmer for 5 mins (this will create a thick paste don't worry).
Remove from pan immediately using a spatula aka a scraper and transfer to a bowl to cool. (this has to cool before proceeding)
In a stand mixer mix cream cheese and butter until creamy.
Slowly add powdered sugar to mix, when combine add berry puree.
Mix until combined.
Frost cupcakes when they are completely cooled and top with a slice of strawberry.
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