Fresh Strawberry Queen Cakes 😍🧁🍓

These Fresh Strawberry Queen Cakes turned out sooooo yummy and cute! They are perfect for a fresh summer picnic dessert with the ladies with some tea or rosè wine and a sweet treat.

I had the queen cake quick mix sitting in the cupboard and wanted to try my own twist on this classic simple vanilla cake. Strawberries are in season and slowly getting cheaper (and they’re my daughter’s favourite) so I decided that the addition of a Mashed strawberry pulp would add that authentic strawberry flavour. A dollop of butter cream would be nice, but Cream Cheese Butter cream is just the BOMB!!!!

Here’s how I made it:

INGREDIENTS
½ bag of Queen Cake mix (full bag makes 24)
2 extra large eggs
½ cup oil
1 cup milk
1 cup mashed strawberries
1 Heaped tablespoon Smooth creamed cheese
1 heaped teaspoon Margerine
1 cup Powdered Icing Sugar
Extra fresh strawberries to top

METHOD

• Preheat the oven to 180• Celsius

• Add the eggs, milk and oil to a medium sized bowl and mix lightly.

• Add the ½ bag of Queen Cake Mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.

• Heat the chopped cup of strawberries for 30 seconds in the microwave and then mash with a fork.

• Add the lumpy strawberry pulp to the mixture with a few drops of red food colouring (optional) and stir until combined.

• Spray the muffin cups or muffin pan with non-stick
  cooking spray.
• Fill the muffin cups to 3/4 full.
• Place the muffin pan in the oven and bake for 20 minutes until lightly golden

While the Queen cakes bake you can prepare the Cream Cheese Icing. The icing can potentially be quite runny so be conservative with your wet ingredients. You can always add a tiny bit more if necessary.

• add the cream cheese and Margerine to a small bowl
• add the icing sugar and mix with a fork - add more icing sugar if the mixture is too wet.

• refrigerate as soon as you have a thick smooth consistency

TOPPING

The baked Queen cakes should be lightly golden and cooked through. Check that they are cooked by poking them with a kebab stick or toothpick. It should come out clean.

• Allow the Queen cakes to cool completely

• Top with a dollop of Cream Cheese icing. You’re welcome to spread it or get decorative with your icing skills, but I like my baking to be simple and tasty

• Slice some fresh strawberries and add to the top of the icing.

The Fresh Strawberry Queen Cakes are my new favourite little treat! They don’t taste overly sweet and easily take on the flavour of whatever is added. I might try and apple crumble version next.

What do you think? What are your favourite cupcake flavours?