- These beauties are amazing!
I have a back log of recipes to share, but I’m skipping the taco salad with homemade cilantro salad dressing, chicken breast stuffed with goat cheese, and I’m even jumping over the best sheet cake ever for another delicious sweet treat. Yep, this recipe is that worthy. These cupcakes are amazing!
A-MA-ZING
Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes are so FREAKIN’ delicious! I really, really want to see your happy food dance joy when you take a bite. Send me a picture, wont you?
The crust is an added pleasant surprise
These little lovelies were inspired by a local cupcake shop called Fluff Cupcakery (cute name, huh?). This itty bitty storefront features different flavors in their shop for only a week or it might be two weeks before moving on to another type. Regardless, the day I went in was their last day making these beauties!
I was trying to contain my watering mouth before my salivary glands went straight down to drooling as I began thinking about biting into a cupcake laced with fresh strawberries!
Beautiful Fresh Organic Strawberries
I pulled down the liner and positioned my cupcake so I could get a bite from the side to avoid the nose in frosting scene, and WOWZIE!! I sunk my teeth in the moistest white cake ever, and then had an OMG moment when I tasted the graham cracker crust! I wasn’t expecting the contrast of all the flavors; fresh berries, vanilla cake on top of a graham cracker crust to work so well together. I can’t remember what the frosting tasted like because the remaining cupcake was inhaled, but the combination definitely worked! From that moment on, my recipe mission began. I wanted to replicate that cupcake.
It didn’t take me too long to find some guidelines. I bookmarked a couple of recipes from a few sites and pulled my ideal Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake together. This recipe is a KEEPER!
Graham Cracker Crust
- 1 ½ cup of prepared graham cracker crumbs or make your own by blending in a food processor approximately a sleeve of whole graham crackers
- 7 Tablespoons butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350F. Combine graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. Put a tablespoon on the bottom of each cupcake liner and pat down with your fingers. Bake for 3-5 minutes or until slightly browned.
Graham cracker crust was a delicious addition to a cupcake
Strawberry Cupcakes
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cake flour
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 cups finely chopped fresh strawberries and extra for garnishing
Follow Martha’s directions here.
The batter makes quite a bit. It is enough for about 30 cupcakes, but I made 24 and had enough to make my son’s girlfriend a mini birthday cake.
Chop two cups for the cupcake batter
- Gently fold the strawberries into the batter.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
- 2 sticks butter (16 TBL total), softened at room temperature
- 2 blocks cream cheese (8 oz. each, 16 oz total), softened at room temperature
- 3 ½ cups confectioners sugar, sifted (I didn’t, but you should)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups chopped strawberries, puréed
Puree strawberries and fold into cream cheese frosting
yummilicious
There won’t be any crumbs left!
Recipes inspired from here and here
Strawberry Cheesecake Mini Cake and Cupcakes
Strawberries are still plentiful. Go get some!
~Sandra
- STRAWBERRY CUPCAKES
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cake flour
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 cups finely chopped fresh strawberries and extra for garnishing
- #instruction#
These cupcake cheesecakes look ridiculously addictive and have such delicious presentation
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
They are ridiculously delicious that is certain
YUM!
Sounds good, looks good and tastes good, a sure winner. Strawberries, one of my favorite fruits.
Mine too Norma! Love the strawberry season!
These look amazing! Your photos are great! The cupcake looks so light and fresh strawberries … yum .. I MUST try these!
Thank you, Cheryl!
Hey Sandra!! These are adorable!! I’ve got some key limes hanging around and I was gonna make key lime cupcakes and you’ve inspired me to add graham cracker crust
Oh, I like that idea! Key lime cupcakes!
oh my goshh!! They DO look soooo amazing!!! I would love to give them a try!! And the cake is so pretty too!! <3
Yes, do try these! I remember you saying you don’t have a cake stand. I put together the one in the photo. Super easy and inexpensive. Blog entry soon
These look scrumptious!! I would totally make them today but I don’t have any strawberries…key ingredient
Thank you for stopping by! I can’t wait to check out your blog! My hubby is a home brewer, so between my cooking and his brewing, we certainly have similar tastes
These look fabulous. Just bought some strawberries this morning…they may or may not last long enough that I can try these. Thanks for sharing:)
Strawberries do taste delicious just as they are for sure!
Gorgeous. So hungry now!! Thanks for liking my recent blog post!! Cheers!
Hi Faith! This soup is filling. Give it a try
What type of wine do you think would go well with it?
Wow! A graham cracker crust for a cupcake. I totally want to try these, especially with strawberries coming into season. Just beautiful photos, by the way. Thank you, Sandra this is the perfect recipe for strawberry season!
Thank you for the nice compliment, Allison! The graham cracker crust is a nice surprise when you bite into it. I’m due to make another batch myself!