Really Real Strawberry Cupcakes

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For this from-scratch strawberry cupcake recipe, I tested and tasted lots of cupcakes. I was determined to make a perfect strawberry cupcake to go with a strawberry frosting I developed a couple of years ago. The trick is not using a purée, as I do when making frosting. Rather, I grind freeze-dried strawberries into a powder, which yields great results — it brought this cupcake recipe out of my test kitchen and into my recipe box!

Prep
17 min
Cook
27 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line muffin tins with 20 cupcake liners.
  2. 2 Grind freeze-dried strawberries into a fine powder using a coffee grinder or food processor. Whisk together strawberry powder, flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl until well combined. Set aside.
  3. 3 Beat together sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy and noticeably lighter in color. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla until incorporated.
  4. 4 Stir flour mixture alternately with milk into butter mixture until just incorporated. Portion into the prepared muffin cups.
  5. 5 Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes spring back when gently touched with a fingertip or a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 16 to 18 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

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