Healthy Cooking for your Kids: Strawberry Cupcakes

      And once again we are on the subject of cupcakes. I mean, just think about it... Cup. Cake. Its basically a cake made in a cup or something... Or made in the size of a cup... Oh this is really confusing. Anyway, lets cut to the chase, Strawberry Cupcakes anyone?

Strawberry Cupcakes

Ingredients:

125g unsalted butter, softened

75g unrefined castor sugar

50g demerara sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 large eggs, beaten

75g white self-raising flour

50g light-brown self-raising flour

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 large strawberries, mashed

5 strawberries, halved

(or 10 whole wild strawberries)

3 tablespoons mascarpone cheese

How to Bake

Preheat the oven to 2350 degrees F. Line 10 holes of a muffin tin with cake paper cases. Beat the butter with the sugars in a bowl until pale and fluffy, then beat in the vanilla extract. Add half the egg and beat well. In a separate bowl, mix the flours and cinnamon together, then add half to the butter mixture and stir to combine. Add the remaining egg and flour mixture and stir to combine. Add mashed strawberries and mix well. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool on a wire rack. Just before serving, spread thinly with the mascarpone cheese and top with a strawberry half or a whole wild strawberry.

I can't help but smile when I see a cupcake,

or any baked good for that matter.

~ Chee An Lyn

       Well, that was pretty good wasn't it? I love how the cheese goes with the strawberry to give it that sweet and salty (maybe cheesy) taste. More soon from Healthy Cooking for your Kids.