These Pink Strawberry Cupcakes are a sweet and pretty strawberry cupcakes recipe. Utilizing fresh or frozen strawberries, this is a delicious strawberry cupcake recipe made from scratch. Watch the video showing you how to make this recipe, then scroll to the bottom of this post and print out the recipe so you can make them at home.
How to Make Strawberry Cupcakes with Fresh Strawberries:
If you want to make strawberry cupcakes, you can certainly find a box of strawberry cake mix at the store and go with that. But the flavor of the boxed mix isn’t going to bring forth the delicious flavor of fresh strawberries. So how do you use fresh strawberries to make cupcakes? In this recipe, you’ll be using frozen strawberries that you will puree. If you have fresh strawberries on hand, you can pop them in the freezer until frozen and then puree them.
Cake flour is used in this cupcake recipe to give it a nice, cakey texture.
Fair warning: don’t taste the cupcake batter. It tastes like strawberry ice cream, and you may be tempted to grab a straw!!
These cupcakes turn out to be a lovely shade of light pink, but I help that process along with a squirt of pink/red gel paste. You can leave the coloring out and the cakes will be slightly pink, but they’re much cuter with a darker tint.
Pink Strawberry Cupcakes are a darling little dessert to serve at little girl’s birthday parties, baby showers and spring and summer celebrations. Everyone loves a good cupcake. And this is a good cupcake!
I frost these with my Wedding Cupcake Buttercream recipe- I highly recommend you try it! Just tint it with a little bit of red gel paste to get a nice pink hue.
Thank you to Miranda from the CookieDoughAndOvenMitt.com blog for shooting beautiful photos of these cupcakes for me!
Here are a few more cupcake recipes you might enjoy:
- Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
- White Wedding Cake Cupcakes
- Moist Vanilla Cupcakes
- Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
- Pink Champagne Cupcakes
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
- Pink Velvet Cupcakes
Pink Strawberry Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups cake flour
- 1½ cups granulated white sugar
- 2¾ teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (1½ sticks) butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup pureed frozen strawberries (about 1/4 of a 1 pound bag)- let them come to room temperature before using in the recipe
- 4 large egg whites
- 1/3 cup milk
- several drops red/pink food color or gel paste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 18 cupcake pan with paper liners.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl use an electric mixer to blend the butter with the strawberry puree. Add the flour mixture and blend until light and fluffy (the batter will be very thick).
- In another bowl, whisk together the egg whites, milk and dye. Add whites in three parts to the batter mixture, mixing only until incorporated after each addition.
- Fill the cupcake liners about 3/4 full. Bake 18 to 22 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting.
Notes
- *Use fresh strawberries if you wish, but put them in the freezer first to draw the moisture out of them, and then puree them as you would bagged frozen strawberries.
- *I use Wedding Cupcake Buttercream tinted with pink gel paste to ice these cupcakes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The cupcakes came out amazing! I used a strawberry cream cheese icing to top off my cupcakes. Will definitely use this recipe again.
How do I make pureed frozen strawberries?
Put them into a food processor or blender, and process until they are pureed.
Absolutely delicious!! My 3 kids loves it.
And the wedding buttercream frosting, so divine!! Will definetly bake this again.
Can these be made a day in advance?
That should be fine!
I want to use fresh strawberries? Should I use the same amount in my food processor as frozen?
Use fresh strawberries if you wish, but put them in the freezer first to draw the moisture out of them, and then puree them as you would bagged frozen strawberries. Use 3/4 cup pureed.
I just tried this recipe and omg it was delicious. I made a cake with it and it made 2 nice size 8″ rounds. I accidentally used 2 sticks of butter instead of the 1 1/2 and you know what it was so good and moist but not to moist for a tier cake. It was perfect. I did not add the food coloring because I wanted it to be all natural. Also it was not to sweet. I had previously used a recipe that called for a box of strawberry jello and I was never really to happy with it because I felt it was to to sweet. I am my own worst critic about my cakes but I can honestly say this is the best and so natural tasting.
Delicious!!!
I made these for my daughters 11th birthday.
Perfectly sweet and a great crumb texture.
Yet again, you have shared a wonderful recipe, many thanks!!
Ok I made these as test for a communion this weekend because Ive made many cupcakes but never strawberry. I have to say the texture was amazing. I was a little concerned with mixing a cold ingredient into a batter because it goes against everything I’ve learned but I did and still can’t believe how wonderful they came out. I did end up using fresh strawberries because they are in season and plentiful and froze them for and hour or so to bring out the juices then puréed. Again these were so light and domed nicely and had the most amazing crumb. This will be my go to recipes for strawberry cupcake/cake for now on. Thank you for the wonderful recipe!!!!
I made these for my daughters birthday party today – HUGE HIT! Loved the strawberry in the cupcake. I also added a little puree to the buttercream frosting. This will most certainly become a go to recipe for me! Oh..and yeah, you don’t want to try to batter because it’s quite yummy. Also the frosting – my daughter kept wanting to lick off the spatula because it was so good – and of course I let her a few times, you only turn 4 once! ;o)
I loved these, i was looking for recipe like this one and having such a hard time finding one untill i came across this one. Made my younger sister these cupcakes for her bday and she loved them! thank u so much for putting this up.