These cupcakes taste great and are quite simple to make. This delightful dessert is highlighted with fluffy cream cheese icing and fresh strawberry compote.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 35 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups diced strawberries
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package white cake mix
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 drop red food coloring, or as desired (Optional)
- ¼ cup water
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
Instructions
- Combine strawberries and sugar in a bowl; stir well. Place in a refrigerator until a light syrup forms, about 40 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 24 cupcake cups or line with paper liners.
- Combine cake mix, oil, eggs, and food coloring in a large bowl. Add strawberry compote and mix well. Pour in water slowly and mix until batter is blended.
- Divide batter evenly between the prepared cupcake cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer to wire racks to cool completely, 15 to 30 minutes.
- Beat heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Fold in cream cheese until smooth. Frost completely cooled cupcakes.
- You can use strawberry extract instead of vanilla, if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 274 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 61 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 164 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I don’t know if I am just incapable when it comes to baking things, but this recipe did not turn out well for me. I think it boils down to inexperience. I didn’t know if I was supposed to drain the syrup from the strawberry mixture; I just dumped the whole strawberries/sugar mixture into the cake mix. I think it probably would have tasted better if I had done the former. The fruit pieces gave my cupcakes a yucky slimy texture inside. Also I didn’t know what I was doing with the frosting. I couldn’t get the cream cheese to mix well in the frosting! It just chunked up and wouldn’t smoothen out. Plus the frosting had a strange flavor; just very sugary overall and didn’t taste of vanilla from the extract or creamy and smooth like it was supposed to. I don’t doubt this may be a great recipe; just my skills really.