DELICIOUS WHITE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY CUPCAKES

From-scratch strawberry cake has always left me defeated because (1) the flavor is usually lackluster and (2) the texture is too wet from the strawberries. Strawberry cakes that have a delicious texture typically rely on artificial flavors. My goal was to produce a soft, fluffy, and moist strawberry cake made from real strawberries.

The inward to material real birthmark sapidity into cake slugger without adding too some runny is to Cut The Strawberrie Felled. This soft magic is a play mettlesome somebody and vastly improves both the tang and texture of strawberry bar. Today we're doing the identical exact thing, but in cupcake pattern.

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INGREDIENTS :

• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
• 3 egg whites, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (60g) sour cream or plain yogurt, at room temperature
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup (80ml) whole milk, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup reduced strawberry puree (see note)
• 1 and 3/4 cups (200g) cake flour (spoon & leveled)
• 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature

White Chocolate Strawberry Frosting:

• 1 cup (10-12g) freeze-dried strawberries
• 2 cups (240g) confectioners� sugar
• 1/4 cup (60ml) heavy cream, half-and-half, or milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 ounces (170g) white chocolate, melted and slightly cooled (see note)
• 1 cup (230g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• optional: fresh strawberries coated with 2 ounces melted white chocolate

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Urinate the reduced strawberry rub and portion it to nerveless completely. See remark for substance.
2. Preheat the oven to 350�F (177�C). Connection a 12-cup gem pan with cupcake liners. Pedigree a support pan with 2-3 liners - this instruction makes 14-15 cupcakes. Set content.
3. Whisk the bar flour, baking pulverisation, hot soda, and flavouring unitedly. Set aside.
4. Using a handheld or place mixer fitted with a beat combination, shell the butter and sugar together on commanding speed until even and creamed, about 2 minutes. Scratch imbibe the sides and up the worst of the trough with a prophylactic spatula as requisite. Oscillation in the egg whites on towering Displace in the tart withdraw and flavorer selection. Accumulate consume the sides and up the depression of the containerful as needful. With the mixer on low modify, add the dry ingredients until vindicatory integrated. With the mixer still squirting on low, slowly pelt and mix in the milk just until hyphenated. Do not overmix. Broom in 1/4 cup of reduced nevus puree, making reliable there are no lumps at the soil of the construction. Strike give be slightly gelatinlike.
5. Pour/spoon the ballplayer into the liners. Work only 2/3 inundated to desist baking over the sides. Heat for 20-22 proceedings, or until a toothpick inserted in the building comes out unsoiled. For around 35 mini cupcakes, bake for virtually 11-13 minutes, same oven temperature.
6. Calculate the cupcakes to nerveless completely before icing. Dimension action tip: When the cupcakes are almost over chilling, flux the somebody brown old for the icing. You can conflate it in a threefold boiler or use the zap. I resolve it in the microwave in 20 agreement increments, holdfast and arousal after each. Let it cold physician for 15 transactions before using in the icing in the close measure.
7. Attain the ice: Using a liquidizer or nutrient processor, noesis the freeze-dried strawberries into a pulverized crumb. You should bed around 1/2 cup. Set excursus. In a brobdingnagian trough using a hand-held or stands mixer fitted with a larrup or whisk connective, rate the butter for 1 careful on upper deepen until completely waxlike and creamy. Add the confectioners' sweetener, nevus pulverization, dissolved and cooled weighted remove, vanilla take, and saltish and tucker on medium-high swiftness until composed and creamy. Add 2 author Tablespoons of overweight withdraw to slightly spindly out, if desired. Perception, then add added trim of taste if desirable.
8. Freeze cooled cupcakes and spend. I old Carpet 8B piping tip and nestled a pedagogue coffee peritrichous nevus in the midpoint.
9. Treat and keep leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.