Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

These Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes are AMAZING! They are very fluffy on the inside and really do taste like Cheesecake.

Ingredients for Cupcakes

• 10 Digestive Biscuits
• 12 Tablespoons of butter at room temperature (for the crumble base)
• 1 1/2 cups of self raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup and 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 12 Tbs unsalted butter, room temperature (for the cake part)
• 1/2 cup sour cream or plain yoghurt
• 4 large egg whites
• 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled & coarsely chopped

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 Packet of Cream Cheese
• 12 tablespoons of unsalted butter
• 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 and line muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2. Get the digestive biscuits and crumble them in a food processor.
3. Then Add the Butter and continue to process the food together (make sure that you do not over process, you do not want to crumb the digestive biscuits too much!)
4. Then you need to press the mix into the bottom of the cupcake liners. The mix should stick together.
5. Using a spoon, press down on the crumble.
6. Bake for 3 – 5 minutes or until slightly brown.
7. In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff. Basically make it look like a meringue and set aside.
8. In a small bowl, mix the flour and salt. Leave the bowl for now.
9. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy. Continue to beat while adding the vanilla.
10. Add half of the flour mixture until blended.
11. Mix the sour cream or yoghurt.
12. Add remaining flour & mix until just blended.
13. Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into the batter until combined.
14. Add the chopped Strawberries and Egg Whites in. Again fold until combined.
15. Fill each muffin tin about 3/4 of the way
16. Bake for 25 minutes

 

Cream Cheese Frosting

1. Combine the dairy-free cream cheese and vegan margarine in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.  Add the sugar and mix at low speed until combined.  Stir in the vanilla and mix again.
2. Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.

Brownie Cupcakes with Cookie Dough Frosting

I saw these on a few cooking websites so thought I’d try these for myself and maybe give them a little twist.

These are pretty easy to make and I’l go through in a step by step basis.

Brownie Cupcakes

Now I’ve made 2 types of these. Chocolate brownie cupcakes and White Chocolate Brownie cupcakes. The ingredients are exactly the same except you substitute cocoa powder with white chocolate powder (I used hot chocolate mix which actually worked really well!)

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup butter, melted
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 Tbsp milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees and line the muffin tins with paper cups.
2. Melt the butter in the microwave (make sure the bowl is microwave safe).
3. Mix in the sugar into the butter until smooth and microwave for about a minute.
4. Stir the mixture until smooth again.
5. Whisk in the Vanilla and Eggs.
6. In another bowl, add salt, cocoa powder OR white chocolate powder and flour. Whisk until mixed.
7. Slowly add the wet ingredients and stir until combined.
8. Fill muffins about 2/3 full.
9. Bake for about 8 – 10 mins and allow to cool completely before frosting.

 

Cookie Dough Frosting

1. 1/2 cup of softened unsalted butter
2. 3/4 cup light brown sugar
3. 1 tsp vanilla extract
4. 1 1/4 cup flour
5. 4 tbsp milk
6. 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions

1. With an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar at medium speed.
2. Add the Vanilla and beat well
3. Stir in flour and salt until doughy.
4. Add in the milk and beat until fluffy
5. Frost cooled cupcakes 
6. Add the chocolate chips to the top of the cakes

Merry Christmas

As a celebration of the end of the year, I decided to create some Christmas Cupcakes which had a little cake topper twist. All had unique tops for the different personalities of the team!