I may have disappeared on you but boy have I been busy! I have a quite a few projects to share with you all! Today I will share the wonderful cupcakes I made this past weekend, compliments of Martha of course! It was my sister's birthday as well as father's day so of course I used it as an excuse to try these mouth watering Strawberry Cupcakes! They were surprisingly really easy!
Cake Ingredients:
-2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
-1/2 cup cake flour (not self-rising)**See below!
-1 tablespoon baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
-2 1/4 cup sugar
-3 large eggs
-1 large egg white
-1 cup whole milk
-1 1/2 teaspoons pur vanilla extract
-2 cups finely chopped strawberries (I left these out to make the cupcake a bit more simple)
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Ingredients:
-4 large egg whites
-1 1/4 cups sugar
-3/4 pound unsalted butter, softened, cut into small pieces (3 sticks)
-1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries pureed
I must admit, however, they did not come out perfect because I made a few mistakes. I knew the minute I put the cupcakes in the oven something wasn't right. Well, for one I just realized writing this recipe for you that I totally missed the 1 egg white ingredient (whoops!). The evil cake flour is what had me baffled. I had never heard of it, never used it, went to the store and couldn't find it! So instead of being smart and googling what the heck it was, I figured I would just use all-purpose flour in it's place. Which wasn't the end of the world, until I realized I used way too much of it! It looked like I was making muffins rather than cupcakes! After I put them in the oven I turned to google and learned there is such a thing as cake flour. It's usually at the top shelf in the food store above the all-purpose flour. If you cannot find cake flour you can always use less all-purpose flour and a teaspoon of cornstarch. (I didn't try this obviously, but next time I will). I contemplated a re-do but decided to move on to the strawberry buttercream icing, because, well, if the icing tastes good who cares if there's a vanilla muffin underneath!
Unfortunately, I made mistakes here too :( That softened butter.. yea, it was ice cold and hard. So I used logic, or so I thought!, and microwaved it for 30 seconds so it was soft. I found out later, when I resorted to google yet again after making runny strawberry buttercream icing, that you are NOT to microwave the butter. You really just need to let it sit. Strike 3! I let it sit in the fridge and crossed my fingers for thicker icing in a few hours.
When all was said and done, the cupcakes weren't terrible, they were actually quite tasty! The actual cupcake tasted like a pound cake rather than a white crumbly cake I was going for, but it happens! At least they looked really pretty!
Lessons learned, I will definitely be trying this one again soon!
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