Strawberry Cupcake

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Strawberry Cupcake recipe - How to make Strawberry Cupcake

Cakes

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cooking Time: 15 mins Total Time: 30 mins 12Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

For The Cup Cakes
150 gms plain flour (maida)
110 gms butter
200 gms sugar
2 eggs
80 ml milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp baking powder

For The Strawberry Butter Cream
4 cups icing sugar , sieved
1 cup unsalted butter , at room
temperature
1 tsp strawberry essence
4 tbsp milk or light
food colour (pink)

Method

For the cup cakes

Combine the butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and whisk well till it
Becomes light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, and whisk continuously till all the eggs are mixed
Well.
Add the flour and milk alternately, starting and finishing off with flour. (the
Sequence will be flour-milk-flour-milk-flour. )
Pipe the cake batter into a lined cupcake mould till ¾th full.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°c (360°f) for 20 minutes till a skewer comes out clean. Keep aside.

For the strawberry butter cream

Cream the butter in a bowl using a whisk, till it becomes smooth and fluffy.
Add the lemon juice and mix well.
Add the sugar gradually and blend on a low speed till the sugar dissolves.
Add the milk and beat well using a hand blender.
Beat the frosting on high speed for approx. 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
How to proceed
Once the butter cream icing is ready, use either a palate knife to dab the icing
On the cupcake or a piping bag and nozzle to pipe the icing onto the cupcake.
Use your creativity and decorate the cupcakes with sprinkles or chocolate shavings!