Easy strawberry cupcakes

Deliciously easy strawberry cupcakes kids will love making and eating! They’re the perfect twist on a classic vanilla cupcake, for any strawberry lover.

Easy strawberry flavoured cupcakes are the perfect bake for any toddler or child who wants to try baking. Cupcakes are one of the easiest bakes for children to try and I know they’re the one thing my kids ask to bake the most often.

Simple vanilla cupcakes are a great place to start but you can very easily jazz them up a bit by adding some fresh strawberry to the mixture as well as strawberry flavoured buttercream icing.

How can children help make these easy strawberry cupcakes?

There are loads of easy steps that even young children who want to try baking will enjoy. As with most baking recipes for children they can help measuring the ingredients and mixing the cupcake batter. Slightly older children will also be able to help cut the strawberries into small pieces, using a blunt knife, to add to the cupcakes.

They’ll also be able to have a chance to practice their piping with the strawberry buttercream frosting. This can get a bit messy, but it’s a fun job for kids to try their hands at!

What else can you make with fresh strawberries?

We love strawberries so always have some in the house, especially in the summer. If you love fresh strawberries an want to use some in your baking we have a few recipes you’ll love:

Strawberry cookies
Strawberry cake
Strawberry mug cake
Berry pavlova

Difficulty: Easy

Time: 30 minutes + 25 minutes baking

Serves: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

150g butter
150g golden caster sugar
3 eggs
150g self raising flour
½ tsp baking powder
4-5 strawberries

For the icing
300g icing sugar
75g butter
Pink food colouring
Strawberry flavour
Strawberries to decorate

How to make strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream frosting

Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C Fan and prepare your baking tin

Get your kids to help you line a cupcake tin with 12 cases.

Cream the butter and sugar together

Weigh the butter and cut it into small pieces before adding it to a large bowl.
Get your child to measure the sugar into a small bowl, and add it to the butter. Cream the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until it’s smooth, light and creamy.

Add the eggs and flour

Break the eggs into a separate bowl then add them in to the mixture. Beat them in gradually until the mixture is smooth.
Weigh the flour then add it to the bowl with the baking powder.

Add the strawberries

Chop the strawberries (your child may be able to help do this with a blunt knife) then add them into your mixture and give everything one final mix.

Spoon the mixture into your cases. If you have an ice cream scoop this is the easiest way of spooning out cupcake batter into cases. It delivers the perfect amount with a lot less mess!

Bake the strawberry cupcakes

Pop your cupcakes in the oven for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown and just firm to touch.

Make the icing

Add the icing sugar into a bowl. Weigh the butter then add it in as well as a drop or two of the colouring and strawberry flavouring and give it a good stir until it is smooth. We added a drop or 2 of hot water to help it come together.

Add the icing into a piping bag (we don’t have one so made do with a piping syringe but you could spread them on with a spatula or knife, or make a piping bag out of a freezer bag). Pipe a swirl on each cupcake – Hannah tried but found it a bit difficult on her own so you may need to help.

Add a strawberry on top and enjoy!

The strawberry cupcakes should keep for a day or so in an airtight container.

*You can use dried strawberries instead of fresh ones and the flavour if you have them. You need about 20g – ground them up and add 15g into the cake mixture and 5g into the icing.

Easy strawberry cupcakes

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A nice easy recipe for strawberry cupcakes. They're delicious and simple enough for kids to bake.

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 55 mins

Course Afternoon tea

Cuisine American, British

Servings 12

Calories 346 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 150 g butter
• 150 g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 150 g self raising flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 4-5 strawberries

For the icing

• 300 g icing sugar
• 75 g butter
• Pink food colouring
• Strawberry flavour
• Strawberries to decorate

Instructions

 

Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C Fan and line a cupcake tin with 12 cases

Cream the butter and sugar together

• Weigh the butter and cut it into small pieces before adding it to a large bowl.
• Measure the sugar into a small bowl, and add it to the butter. Cream the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until it’s smooth, light and creamy. Alternatively mix it together using the k paddle of a stand mixer.
  

Add the eggs and flour

• Break the eggs into a separate bowl then add them in to the mixture. Beat them in gradually until the mixture is smooth.
• Weigh the flour then add it to the bowl with the baking powder.

Add the strawberries

• Chop the strawberries then add them into your mixture and give everything one final mix.
• Spoon the mixture into your cases.

Cook the cupcakes

• Pop your cupcakes in the oven for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown and just firm to touch.

Decorate the strawberry cupcakes

• Add the icing sugar into a bowl. Weigh the butter then add it in as well as a drop or two of the colouring and strawberry flavouring and give it a good stir until it is smooth. We added a drop or 2 of hot water to help it come together.
• Add the icing into a piping bag (we don’t have one so made do with a piping syringe). Pipe a swirl on each cupcake – Hannah tried but found it a bit difficult on her own so you may need to help.
• Add a strawberry on top and enjoy!

Notes

*You can use dried strawberries instead of fresh ones and the flavour if you have them. You need about 20g – ground them up and add 15g into the cake mixture and 5g into the icing.

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