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Strawberry Cream Cheese Cupcakes
Because, though it’s rare, sometimes I really need sweet stuff. Because sometimes it just feels good to splurge. Because sometimes it’s okay to splurge. Because tomorrow it’s Queens day, and the words celebration and (orange) cupcakes belong together. And because I’m practicing for the grand finale: Jungle cupcakes for my son’s 4th birthday before sending him off to school for the very first time, here’s a little foretaste.
Over the past year I found out that I lean towards cupcakes with a bite—not the flimsy ones that are so light and unsatisfying you can eat four of ‘em and still feel like you only had a few crumbs. These were kinda like my Lime and Ricotta Cupcakes, rich and dense but still light enough. Simply irresistible.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup self-rising flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
5 tbsp cream cheese
7oz strawberries
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 oz butter
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs
Directions:
Start by combining the (sieved) self-rising flour with the baking powder and salt. Add 1 tsp salt when using unsalted butter.
Strawberries. Yum. They smelled and tasted so good. Cut or twist off the crown.
Blend. There, strawberry puree. It should make for a little over 1/2 a cup. In hindsight I might have added a small handful of chopped strawberries to the batter to intensify the strawberry flavor even more.
3 1/2 oz soft butter. Add 2/3 cup of sugar.
Beat until the sugar and butter are fluffy and pale. Add the cream cheese, vanilla extract, and beat for a few more minutes until you end up with a smooth and creamy mix.
Separate two room-temperature eggs—I prefer using my hands for this—and add the yolks to the cream cheese mix. Beat until they’re fully submerged.
Alternately add the flour and pureed strawberries, make sure you begin and end with flour. Oh boy, the strawberry puree smells so amazing.
Until you end up with a rather thick pale pink dough. Go on, taste it! You know you want to!
Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites.
And beat them until you can draw peaks.
Carefully fold the egg whites into the batter. Use an orange spatula, it’s almost Queens day after all.
And orange cupcake liners. It’s the only right thing to do at a time like this. Fill them 2/3 of the way with batter.
Bake them in a preheated oven at 350F (180C).
Let them cool on the rack.
Top with whatever you like. Cream cheese frosting. Strawberry jelly, anything. Or be like me and go for whipped cream. Whipped cream and strawberries were made for one another.
Happy birthday dear Juliana, wherever you may be. And happy Queens Day to all the Dutchies in the Netherlands and abroad!
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The cupcakes look lovely, kay. Such cheerful colors.
Your cupcakes look fantastic.
I wish I didn’t have a sweet tooth & a gourmet tooth & and a junk food tooth …yadda, yadda, yadda.
These look just delicious, Kay. I like incorporating fruit puree into the batter. Gives it a great color and probably keeps it pretty moist, too. And, I separate eggs in my hand that way as well :-)
Yummmmmy! Looks great!!
I am so glad you posted this, I have a large batch of strawberries!
It is my routine checking your site everyday to see if there is new post. I love your recipes and your pictures.
It looks fabulous! Great photos, as usual. Kay, how many cupcakes will this recipe make?
@Christina:
Oops, forgot to add that. This recipe yields 12 cupcakes.
YUMMY! Have a geat Queen’s day!
They look lovely! I’m so glad you’ve started baking more.
I like the idea of having a strawberry taste in the cupcakes. Great deco by the way. Looks delicious.
Your cupcakes look so cute Kay! I love strawberries in anything.
Magda
your blog looks really nice. and so do your cupcakes!
Those cupcakes look so fresh and beautiful, they’re perfect for spring! I also love the step-by-step pictures.
Dear Ms. Kay,
I have seen your page before and impressed by this recipe as well as the way of your decor, your photos taking. But I am ashamed to show you a page: http://afamily.vn/20100508011425834tm0ca52/Cupcake-dau-gui-loi-yeu-thuong.
@Mai:
Sad, isn’t it? That people feel the need to steal photographic content. This one even tried to remove my logo from the photo, and not in a very good way.
I am Vietnamese, so I feel very ashamed for this action and feel very sorry with you. I sent them my comment to ask them stating the source of the post as well as other posts on this page, but it was removed, :((.
@Mai:
Oh sweetie, please don’t worry about it. This happens all the time. Granted, this one is so low he or she even tries to remove my logo, but this is normal! Sad as it is. I sent an email to the email address listed at the bottom of the page. Curious what they’ll say.
Thnak you so much for bringing it to my attention!
Hallo Kay,
Ik heb een paar dagen terug deze cupcake geprobeerd en het eindresultaat was geweldig! TNX!
http://dusbahcesi.blogspot.com/2010/05/cilekli-cupcake.html
Groetjes,
Selma
Hi i am newly following this blog. I tried these cupcakes and i am not really impressed. they kinda tasted like a pancake with a very slight strawberry taste. Im not sure if i did something wrong or was just expecting something different from these. Did anyone else find that they tasted kinda bland? I dont think i did anything wrong as far as the recipe goes.
@Hannah:
I noticed, I saw you coming in via Facebook! Thanks for trying my recipe. Maybe you expected an explosion of strawberry? That seldom works when you use real strawberries and not something like flavor extracts. This was mainly meant to add a mellow strawberry flavor to the cupcake batter itself.
Not sure if I did something wrong, but my cupcakes didn’t cook in the centre and fell flat. Leaving them in longer just yielded me burnt cupcakes. :( Tasted kind of bland too, probably wouldn’t make them again.
I thought these turned out excellent! Really delicious. Thanks!
Hello :) I love your recipes. It really helped me through fixing dinner for my dad.
I was wondering how long do I put in the cupcakes for?
and my dad said he loves everything about this site lol me too