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Strawberry Buttercream Cupcakes - no artificial, colours or flavours!

Strawberry Buttercream Cupcakes

Strawberry Buttercream Cupcakes - Pretty in pink , these buttery vanilla cupcakes have a strawberry buttercream frosting without any artificial coloring and pure natural flavour.
Course Cake
Cuisine American
Keyword cupcakes, strawberry
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 18 cupcakes.
Author Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

For the Cupcake Batter

  • 1 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs at room temperature
  • 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup undiluted evaporated milk

For the Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

  • 4 1/2 cups icing sugar powdered sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp strawberry puree
  • About 6 large strawberries sliced, for garnish

Instructions

To prepare the cupcake batter

  1. Sift together the flours, baking powder and salt and set aside.
  2. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  4. Beat in the vanilla extract.
  5. Gently fold in the dry ingredients in three equal portions, alternately with the milk.
  6. When adding dry and wet ingredients alternately in any baking recipe, always begin and end with the dry ingredients.
  7. Pour batter evenly into paper lined muffin pans.
  8. Bake in a 325 degree F oven for about 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Watch them carefully, you will not want to over bake these cupcakes, as soon as the toothpick comes out clean, remove the cupcakes from the oven and let them cool completely on a wire rack once you have removed them from the pan.

For the Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

To make the frosting

  1. Cream together all of the ingredients until creamy and fluffy.
  2. The icing should be relatively thick but still spreadable. If it seems too thick add a couple of tsp of milk or more strawberry puree. If it seems not thick enough add a little more icing sugar.

Recipe Notes

STRAWBERRY PUREE

If you have really ripe summer strawberries, with good, deep colour, you canĀ  just puree them together to add to the frosting. If they are less ripe, puree them and simmer off some of the liquid before cooling and adding to the recipe.