• Whip up these delicious strawberry-filled cupcakes for Mother’s Day! They just as pretty as they are tasty. After all, “Mother knows best” when it comes to sweet surprises.

    Mothers Day strawberry filled cupcakes

    Serves: 9-12
    Cooking Time: 45 min

    Ingredients

    • The cupcakes
    • 150 grams butter at room temperature
    • 1/2 cup caster sugar
    • 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 tbsp milk
    • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
    • Filling
    • Plum and strawberry jam OR extra fruit strawberry jam, softened
    • The icing
    • 250 grams butter, room temperature
    • 500 grams icing sugar, sifted
    • 1-2 tbsp milk
    • ½ tsp vanilla essence
    • 1 drop pink food colouring

    Instructions

    The cupcakes

    1

    PREHEAT oven to 180°C

    2

    COMBINE all ingredients except the milk and vanilla essence into a bowl and mix until smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add milk and vanilla essence. Mix well to combine.

    3

    DIVIDE mixture evenly between cases in muffin tin.

    4

    BAKE in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until risen and golden.

    Filling

    5

    ONCE cooled , make a whole into the top of the cupcake and pipe or spoon in softened strawberry jam.

    The icing

    6

    BEAT the butter in a bowl until light and creamy. Mix in the icing sugar in three batches, then mix for 2 more minutes until smooth and fluffy.

    7

    ADD the milk, vanilla essence and pink food colouring. Mix until well incorporated.

    8

    PIPE the icing onto the cooled cupcakes.

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