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Strawberry Cupcakes

Strawberry Cupcakes

Servings 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup melted butter
  • 2 tbs. canola oil
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 cup powdered freeze dried strawberries
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract

For the frosting:

  • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
  • 4 oz softened cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • Fresh strawberries to top

Instructions

For the cupcakes:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, melted butter, and canola oil until well combined. Whisk in the egg and vanilla extract until just combined. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and powdered freeze dried strawberries. In a small bowl, whisk together the buttermilk and sour cream.
  3. Add about 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar mixture and stir until just mixed through. Add in about 1/2 of the milk mixture, and stir to combined. Repeat this alternating mixing until everything has been mixed through.
  4. Scoop your batter into your prepared cupcake liners. The batter will come pretty close to the top of each cupcake cup, but don't worry, that's how it's supposed to be! You should get 12 cupcakes from this batter. Bake the cupcakes for 16-18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean. Cool the cupcakes for 10 minutes in the pan, and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

For the frosting:

  1. In a large bowl, whip the heavy cream until soft peaks have formed. In a small bowl, whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the cream cheese into the heavy cream along with the powdered sugar and vanilla extract, and continue whipping until stiff peaks have formed.
  2. Frost cupcakes as desired, optionally topping each cupcake with half of a fresh strawberry. Enjoy!