Strawberry And Cream Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 3/4 cup butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• (Makes 12)
• Fresh Strawberries And Cream Cheese Frosting
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 or 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
• 1 pint fresh strawberries, washed, dried and cut into pieces

Directions

Cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Line a cupcake tin with paper liners.
3. In a mixing bowl, using an electric mixer beat together the butter and sugar on medium to high speed.
4. Add in the eggs, one a time, beating in each one as you add it. Mix in the vanilla.
5. Mix together the flour with the baking powder.
6. Beat the flour mixture to the wet mixture on medium speed until smooth.
7. Fill the cupcake liners to 2/3 full.
8. Place into the heated oven and bake for 15 minutes or until done.
9. Insert a toothpick into the center of a cupcake and if it comes out clean they are baked.
10. Remove from the oven to a cooling rack. Let the cupcakes sit in the tin for 5 minutes, then remove them and place each cupcake onto the cooling rack.
11. Let cool completely before decorating.
12. Fresh Strawberries and Cream
13. In a large bowl, whip the cream with an electric mixer.
14. When it is starting to mount, add a tablespoon or 2 of sugar and the optional vanilla extract. Whip just until the cream is thick but still loose enough to roll off a spoon.
15. Gently fold in the prepared fresh strawberries.
16. Spread a spoonful onto each cupcake before serving.
17. These cupcakes should be kept refrigerated in a container with a lid.