Strawberry Shortcake Surprise Cupcakes

Strawberry Shortcake Pineapple Cupcakes

This a simple recipe is great for kids. Each child can personalize his own cupcake.

This recipe is wonderful because it uses fresh strawberries which are healthy and absolutely delicious. This is my healthy cupcake. Cupcakes are great but they should not be eaten all the time because of the sugar and fat. But there ways to reduce these and make cupcakes a lot more healthier.
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1 box pineapple cake mix
If unavailable, use white cake mix and use pineapple juice from canned pineapples as the liquid.
(add crushed canned pineapples the same way you make pineapple upside cupcakes if you wish)

Filling and Topping:

8 cups stemmed and sliced strawberries (about 5 pints), plus 12 large strawberries, cleaned and stemmed
1/3 cup granulated sugar
3 cups heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Use cool whip for a quicker and healthier whip cream.

Prepare ingredients according to the directions on the package. Bake in greased cupcake pans or with cupcake papers.
Cool the cupcakes for 10 minutes in the pan on a wire rack. Remove the cupcakes from the pan onto a wire rack and let cool completely, then remove the paper liners.

Make the filling and topping:

In a large bowl, stir together the sliced strawberries and granulated sugar. Let sit for 30 minutes. Some juice will be released as the strawberries sit, and they will shrink to about 6 cups.

In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat the cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla until soft peaks form. Using a serrated knife, slice each cupcake into three layers. Place the bottom of each cupcake on an individual serving plate. Spoon 1/4 cup of the strawberries, with their juices, onto each one, then spoon 1/4 cup whipped cream onto each. Top with the middle cupcake layers and repeat with the remaining sliced strawberries and another 1/4 cup whipped cream for each. Some sliced strawberries and whipped cream will spill onto the plates; this is good.

Place the cupcake tops on top and garnish each one with a tablespoon of whipped cream and a whole strawberry. Serve immediately.

Here is the surprise. Before you serve the cupcakes insert an almond Hershey kiss in each cupcake. Don't let the kids see you or else it won't be a surprise. Give them a short little project so you can seal the Hershey Kiss. They'll wonder how it got there. You can use your imagination and come up with your own fairytale about it.

The unfilled cupcakes can be covered and stored for one day at room temperature.

Before they are filled, these cupcakes can be tightly wrapped and frozen for up to a month. Take out as many cupcakes as you need and defrost them still in their wrapping. The quantities below are for about 1/2 cup strawberries and a generous 1/2 cup whipped cream for each cupcake-but more is fine

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Mommies and Daddies should never loose their identity when they have children. This is a very common error that happens in families today. As soon as the children come along the parent's life becomes the life of the child.

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This should not happen. Children are an addition to your life because of your selfless act of giving a total stranger a home, your bodies. So, you are the teachers. The child should never run or dictate the direction of you life. That is contrary to nature and what God wanted for humans. Remember you represent the Godhead in your household.

The greatest love is not the parent-child relationship as this has vanity involved in it. You cannot hate you own flesh and blood. Love for a stranger is the greatest love thereby making the husband-wife relationship greater than the parent-child.

Disregarding yourselves for your child only creates a psychological environment that leads to depression and all kinds of other dysfunctions, whether you are aware of it or not. In a lot of cases divorce is the end result.

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So always take personal time for your self and not just going out, because you are making the child the king of your castle if you do that. You need to incorporate it into your home life. Let the kid know that you are not here to serve them only. By doing this you are also creating healthy independence in your child. Let your child know that you are a person just like he/she is with your own activities. Let your child know that just because you are in the house does not mean you are free to cater to his every whim. Soon he will realize that Mommy has her own life too.

Train up the child in the way he should go and when he is old, like 7, he shall never depart from it.

Is your home under your control or do the kids have the run of it? To find out do this test:

When you are home get yourself busy doing some me activities like relaxing or reading a magazine you enjoy. Give your self a pedicure or anything that has nothing to do with the kids or the family as a whole. Then notice how they behave. Keep track of how often they ask you for something or ask you to do something for them. Do not give in to any demands or requests unless it's an absolute emergency. Now notice who loses their cool or seem incapable of functioning without you help.

Once you have made your assessment proceed on a plan for taking back your domain.

The best place to start is at home because most couples and parents are used to personal time outside the home. It may seem easiest to leave the kids at home but that just makes your home an unpleasant and stressful place to be. Why would you make the place you spend most of your time seem like a battle zone when compared to the places where you de-stress and enjoy yourself the most.

Here is a Mommy and Daddy only cupcake recipe that you can enjoy. You can let the kids have a little taste but that would be contradicting the point.

Enjoy!



Easy rum cakes

1 (15 1/2 oz.) can French vanilla pudding
1 tbsp. rum
1/2 c. heavy cream, whipped
1 box yellow cake mix
Powdered sugar

Mix pudding and rum; fold in whipped cream. Prepare cake mix according to package directions; place in paper-lined muffin tins. Bake according to package directions; cool thoroughly. Cut circle from center of each cupcake with center section of doughnut cutter; scoop out some of the cake. Spoon filling into center of each cupcake; replace cake circle. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Yield: 24 cupcakes.

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How Cupcakes and Fairy cakes came to be?

Once upon a time, there was a young kitty called Cupcake from Australia.
Cupcake was a fine cat and all the children loved her. She loved curling up on the couch, purring and cozying up with everyone.

Cupcake loved cream very much. It was her favorite thing. She like it even better than fish. You knew that because there was never a drop of cream left in her dish. Whenever Cupcake took a nap everyone would say she must be dreaming of cream.

But what they didn't know was that Cupcake was dreaming of fairies. Tiny little people with wings on their backs. They were always very busy making beautiful cakes. All with pretty frosting impossible to resist. All the fairies loved Cupcake very much and gave all the cakes she could every eat. They were so rich and creamy that Cupcake thought she was in heaven.

There is a connection between children and cats. If they both went to sleep at the same time their dreams get intertwined. And this is what happen to Cupcake one day. Usually Cupcake was not allowed to sleep in the children's room because of the myth of cats sucking the life out of the children when they sleep. But one day when Katie, who was 3, was having an afternoon nap Cupcake crept into Katie's bed and went to sleep. And this is when Katie entered into Cupcake's dream world.

Katie had never seen a fairy before. Children can only see them through a cat's eye. She was amazed and bewildered. She had never seen such tiny creatures before. They were about the length of a ruler and they all flew around like busy bees. When she saw Cupcake she ran to her but that was when she got the shock of her three year old life. Cupcake could talk. Instead of meow she was talking. This was very weird for Katie knows that cats don't talk, they meow and purr.

Cupcake asked if she would like some cake. Of course Katie said "Yes, please!" But these cakes were the size of cups although to the fairies they were full size cakes. Watching Cupcake and Katie devour a whole one each and ask for seconds must have seemed like gluttony.

And this is how the cupcakes got their name. And this is why children also call cupcakes fairy cakes.

You see when Katie woke up she ran to her mother and asked her to make her a cake. But she insisted on putting the cake batter in tea cups. Her mother was a little puzzled but she tried it anyway. When they were ready Katie's mother took them out of the oven and all she just naturally and instinctively said was "the cupcakes are ready." Katie and Cupcake came running into the kitchen. "Not cupcake Mommy, Fairy cakes," Katie retorted. But Katie's mother had no idea what she was going on about. But everyday Katie would go on and on about the fairies making cakes in cups. Her mother never really understood and just kept on calling them cupcakes.

And this where Cupcake got her name. Before Cupcake was Cupcake she had no name. Everyone just called her Kitty because that was what she was, a kitty cat. But since Katie got her Mom to make the cakes in the teacups Kitty just couldn't seem to get enough of them. Everyone just started calling her Cupcake because she was always eating a cupcake. It seemed that Cupcake lived, ate and dreamed cupcakes. Cupcakes seemed to be competing with cream.

What do you think happened? Did cream get replaced by cupcakes?

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