Summer… Fruit… STRAWBERRIES!!!
These are the perfect summer party cupcakes. Enjoyable for people of almost any age and best heaped with sprinkles!
Being the amateur baker that I am I hadn’t actually iced cupcakes before. Ever. Shock horror, I know. It’s unacceptable. So please excuse the lopsidedness of the icing on my cupcakes.
You wouldn’t believe how fun it is though! I got a bit carried away and used almost EVERY single head in the the bag. The amount of wash up was absolutely humongous but 100% worth it. My hands were covered in icing, I had used up almost every single spoon in the house, there was icing on the floor, on my new leather boots (a lot of talcom powder was in order for that one) and there was even some in my hair! But by the end of my icing session those cupcakes were darn freezing! :p
And being the food nerd that I am I of course went as far as to make little chocolate decorations for the tops of the cakes. Using a plastic bag to pipe! (We didn’t have a nozzle big enough!).
These cupcakes were sweet as icing sugar! And had the most amazing strawberry pieces scattered the whole way through the cupcake. They are possibly the moistest baked goods I have ever eaten aside from my favourite carrot cake! Which is a given, seeing as they’re from… drumroll please….. SALLY’S BAKING ADDICTION! (And just so you know, I don’t always bake off SBA. Just yesterday I made Brown Eyed Baker’s Mocha Cupcakes with Espresso Buttercream Frosting. They were incredible. So incredible even that I didn’t have a chance to take a picture of a single one!)
Here’s the link: http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/01/26/fresh-strawberry-cupcakes/
And my favourite part…. Wait for it…. : They are completely naturally coloured. The pink icing on the top is all freshly squeezed strawberry juice!
The recipe I used was this one:
http://addapinch.com/cooking/2013/06/20/strawberry-buttercream-frosting-recipe/
I replaced the syrup with the strawberry juice and used normal milk, not cream. It’s fattening enough as it is!
So in conclusion. For a summer snack, tea, dessert, party or almost anything else. Bake them. Bake them I tell you!
Hope you’re enjoying the summer.
xxxxx
Eat The Peach 