justJENN recipes

This recipe is from the “Crazy About Cupcakes” cookbook. I’d adapted a ton of fantastic recipes from it, but this one needed no change at all.

This is ‘real’ because there actually strawberries mixed into the cake, it doesn’t just have that faux strawberry flava. You can even add a dash of pink food coloring if you really want to visually get the point across.

ingredients:
1 stick butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cup strawberries, fresh or frozen, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a cupcake pan with liners.

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, alternating with the milk. Mix until blended. Fold in the vanilla and strawberries. (and food coloring if you are going pink.)

Fill cupcake cups 3/4 full, bake 20-25 minutes, until you get that lovely clean toothpick. Cool, and frost. Makes 12 cupcakes.

I used a chocolate frosting, and poked strawberry pocky sticks inside to reveal what kind of cake was under there. I also made a batch of my “Fauxtess” cupcakes to go with them. Sorry, they were eaten before I could take a pic of the insides!

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