This article was written for Annabel & Grace, which is now part of Rest Less.
Strawberries and cream cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 225g Caster sugar
- 210g Self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 25g Cornflour
- 125g fresh ripe strawberries, hulled and crushed
- 225g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 large eggs, free range or organic
To decorate:
- Good-quality strawberry jam (1 teaspoon for each cupcake)
- 1 batch of Vanilla Buttercream icing
- 12 small strawberries
How to make strawberry & cream cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 160’ celcius (fan) and lin 12 hole cupcake / muffin tray with appropriate size cases
- Put sugar, flour, baking powder, cornflour and crushed strawberries into a food processor. Pulse until evenly mixed. Add the butter and eggs and process briefly until even (roughly 10 seconds).
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases, filling to about two-thirds full. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes. The cakes will be fairly moist even when cooked.
- Remove from the oven and leacve the cakes in their tins for about 10 minutes before placing on wire rack to cool.
- When completely cool, carefully make a small hole in the centre of each cupcake and use a teaspoon to push the strawberry jam into the hole – you can slightly warm the jam in a saucepan first to soften it before pushing it in to the sponge.
- Wash the 12 strawberries and dry off on kitchen paper. Decorate the cupcakes with the vanilla buttercream icing and, just before serving, place a fresh strawberry in the centre.
