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Strawberry Cupcakes

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My hubby wanted to invite his 10-year-old niece for sleepover, so I planed to make cupcakes with her since she enjoyed baking.  I found an easy recipe from JoyofBaking, and added a few twist to it to suit the summer.  My cupcake recipe is based on this vanilla cupcake recipe with some slight changes.

Ingredients

Vanilla cupcakes

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
  • 3 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cup cake flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 skim milk

Strawberry buttercream

  • 1 cup confectioners sugar, sifted
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/4 cup strawberry jam
  • 2 small cartons of half and half cream (the ones you use for coffee)

Instructions

Vanilla cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. Place 12 paper liners in muffin pan
  3. With an electronic mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.  Add in the eggs, one at a time.  Add the vanilla extract.
  4. Sift flour, baking powder and salt.  Alternately fold in the flour mixture and milk.
  5. Fill the muffin liners with cake batter.  Bake for 15-20 minutes until a toothpick would come out clean.  The colour of the finish product is a light yellow.  It took around 17 minutes for me.

Strawberry buttercream

  1. Cream the bugger until smooth with an electric mixer
  2. Add in 1/4 cup of strawberry jam.  If the jam has too many big chucks, puree it with a food processor first
  3. Slowly add the sifted confectioners sugar to the mixture.  When the mixture appeared dry, add a bit of cream
  4. Adjust the amount of sugar and cream according to personal taste and texture

I found that using all-purpose flour as suggested by the original recipe yielded cupcakes that were too hard and tasted like muffins.  Therefore I used cake flour instead and reduced the amount of flour by 1/4 cup.

As for the buttercream, jam already provided sweetness so I cut down the amount of confectioners sugar by 50%.  Even at 1 cup of confectioners sugar, I found it a bit too sweet for my personal liking.  I am still in search for the perfect buttercream recipe.  Although the above tasted great and easy to make, I found the frosting was a bit too runny and grainy.

Enjoy!