Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

I know, I post a ridiculous amount of cupcakes. But really, can you blame me? If I were to do a cookbook someday it might just be a cupcake cookbook because I’m just that obsessed with them. And I can’t even begin to tell you how obsessed I am with these strawberry cupcakes. A-MAZ-ING!

They are hands down the best strawberry cupcakes I’ve ever had, and they’ll likely be your new favorite too. Yes, that could sound totally braggish (since it’s my own recipe), but I’m kinda thinking these deserve bragging rights :).

Last week I made a layered strawberry cake. Very similar to these but I topped that with a cream cheese frosting. Well, when you combined cream cheese frosting with sliced strawberries between cake layers things can get a little slippery.

Loved the cake, just not the way it held up, so I made these to share instead. And I actually preferred going all strawberry instead of a cream cheese frosting though because it didn’t diminish that sweet strawberry flavor at all. It just added to it of course

Ingredients

• 1 2/3 cup cake flour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter , softened
• 3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 large egg whites
• 1/3 cup fresh strawberry puree*
• 1/4 cup buttermilk**
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 5 drops red food coloring (optional)
• 3/4 cup diced strawberries (dice into about 1/4-inch pieces)
• Diced and whole strawberries for topping (about 1 lb small strawberries)
• Frosting (double recipe if making for a double layer cake)
• 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp strawberry puree
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter , nearly at room temperature
• 1/4 cup salted butter , nearly at room temperature
• 2 1/2 - 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 drops red food coloring (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift cake flour into a mixing bowl then add baking powder, baking soda and salt, whisk 20 seconds, set aside.
2. ......................................

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