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.
Cupcakes

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

Close-up of a Strawberry

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Silly Bunny, Cupcakes are for kids!

Lately the adults have discovered the little, cute as a button cupcake. We are in love with how such a little bit of pastry can pack so much punch. Also, it makes you think you can have your cake and eat it too. For such a small thing could not make you fat. Or a little indulgence is good for the spirit. Children are less influenced by the size of the cupcake as anything bigger than their tiny hands is quite a lot. But as they grow one cupcake is child's play.

But as we know the cupcake is deceptive. Having just one will not be the end of it. It is like a drug that is addictive. You will gobble the whole platter if you dare allow yourself that freedom.

So, when handling the little cupcake, beware. For they may look harmless, innocent and amazing eye candy but they can spiral into an obsession that lacks all sense and sensibilities and not to mention, on a more serious note, a sugar overload that the human body cannot handle.

So, parents and kids should always handle their cupcakes with ought most respect. Using restraint when you delve into the cupcake zone.

Adult fetishes may come and go but the cupcake will never die because as long as a child is born, the cupcake life continues on. Long live the cupcake. Viva la cupcake. Ooooh a French cupcake. I hope I can find an easy one for you to try out.

Child Eating Strawberries

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And don't forget to use lots of fruit and try to keep the sugar and fat down. Let us always remember that being healthy should be a priority

So kids get your baking gear ready, this is going to be a really good one. And you don't have to be perfect. You are a kid. Perfection is not in your vocabulary.

Silly bunny, cupcakes are for kids!

Twinkette cupcakes

1 box lemon cake mix
1 box yellow cake mix
1 box pineapple cake mix

If this is unavailable in your area, a white cake mix can be substituted and pineapple juice substituted for the liquid.

Combine cake mixes and add ingredients according to package directions. Bake in greased cupcake pans or pans lined with cupcake papers for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. When cool, fill with the following:

FRENCH VANILLA FILLING:

5 tbsp. flour
5 tbsp. sugar
1 c. milk
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Dash of salt

Combine flour and sugar together in a small saucepan. Add milk and stir until the lumps are gone. Cook and stir constantly over medium heat until thick. Cool thoroughly. Cream together other ingredients. Add cooled milk mixture and beat for 5 minutes. Put filling mixture into frosting dispenser. Insert dispenser way down into cupcake and squirt filling into cupcake. Repeat with remaining cupcakes. This makes approximately 80 to 90 cupcakes. They freeze well in air tight containers.

Four cups of the 3 cake mixed together dry = 1 box of package directions. Makes 30 cupcakes. Store remaining dry mix in air tight canisters.

CHOCOLATE TWINKETTE CUPCAKES: One box devils food cake mix, 1 box Swiss chocolate cake mix and 1 box sour cream chocolate cake mix. Follow above directions.

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