Strawberry Cream Cupcakes
 
 
Ingredients
  • 3 cups cake flour, (not self-rising)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup milk
  • 8 large egg whites
  • 1/4 cup sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2. Line 24 muffin pan cups with paper liners and 24 mini-muffin pan.
  3. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium-sized bowl and set aside.
  4. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy (about 3 to 4 minutes) scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Mix in vanilla.
  5. Turn the mixer down to a low speed and gradually add the flour mixture, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour. Then beat until just combined. Transfer mixture to a large bowl and set aside.
  6. Clean out your mixing bowl to reuse with the whisk attachment. Add the egg whites and beat on low until they begin to foam. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar and then turn to high. Beat until eggs and sugar form stiff glossy peaks (about 3-4 minutes).
  7. Gently fold 1/3 of the egg-white mixture into the butter and flour mixture until they are combined. Continue to fold in the remaining egg-white mixture.
  8. Divide batter evenly among the muffin cups, filling each with approximately 1/4 cup batter for the larger cupcakes and 1/8 cup batter for the mini-cupcakes.
  9. Bake, rotating pans halfway through, until the cupcakes are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean about 20 to 25. Check earlier for the mini-cupcakes.
  10. Transfer pans to a wire rack to cool. When able to handle, remove cupcakes from the pans and place on the wire rack to finishing cooling.
  11. Frost cupcakes with Strawberry Angel Feather Icing. Cupcakes may be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2012/06/24/lost-words/