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Strawberry Cream cheese Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes filled with strawberry cream cheese filling and then decorated with fresh strawberries. These pretty cupcakes are perfect for Mother's day or to celebrate a special persons birthday.
Author: Pavani
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • cups All purpose flour
  • 2 tbsps Corn Starch
  • ¾ tsp Baking powder
  • ½ tsp Baking Soda
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Soy Almond Milk or
  • 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
  • cup Canola Oil
  • ¾ cup Sugar
  • 2 tsps Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tbsp Strawberry Jam
  • 2 tbsps Cream Cheese , cut into12 pieces
  • 4 oz Cream Cheese . , softened
  • 2 tbsps Unsalted butter , softened
  • ½ tsp Vanilla
  • 1 ~ 2 tsps Milk
  • 2 cups Sugar Powdered
  • Strawberries As needed , sliced

Instructions

  • To make the cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F and line muffin pan with cupcake liners.
  • Whisk soy milk and vinegar in a measuring cup and set aside for a few minutes to curdle.
  • Beat together the soy milk mixture, oil, sugar, vanilla in a large bowl. Sift in the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix until no big lumps remain.
  • Fill cupcake liners ⅔rds of the way full. Before baking, stir the strawberry jam in small bowl until smooth.
  • Place 1 piece of cream cheese on top of each cupcake, press into the batter lightly. Spoon ¼tsp strawberry jam on top of the cream cheese in each cupcake. Bake 20~22 minutes. Remove from the oven, after 5 minutes transfer onto a wire rack and cool completely.
  • Make Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese, butter, vanilla and 1tsp milk in a large bowl using a hand mixer or in a stand mixer on low speed until smooth. Beat 1cup powdered sugar at a time.
  • Gradually beat in just enough milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If the frosting is too thick, add more milk. If the frosting is too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar.
  • Frost the cooled cupcakes. Just before serving garnish each cupcake with strawberry slices.

Notes

This is part of the Bake-a-thon 2015.
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