Along with healthy living comes delightful indulgences. While pumpkin and lemon meringue pies are at the top of the list for me, cupcakes will always hold a special place in my heart – even when they aren’t trendy anymore and we’ve moved on to donuts on a stick or something.
This past weekend, I was able to pick up a flat of strawberries at the local farmers market for a good price. But the only problem with organic strawberries is you have to use them FAST, or they’ll be infested with mold faster than you thought possible. So what is a girl to do? While I should be a little more cognizant of what I eat given my upcoming nuptials, that plan hasn’t been going so well. So instead, I found myself reminiscing about our trip to Chicago for the Chicago Marathon and I remembered what heaven tasted like: Sprinkles’ strawberry cupcakes.
This isn’t your vanilla cake with strawberry flavored frosting. No sir, I’m talking about fresh strawberries mix in with both the cake and frosting – I had to make them and lucky for me, I found the recipe on Martha Stewart. I don’t have a sifter, so I used cake flower, and I didn’t have whole milk, so I used skim milk with melted butter (gross, but that’s what the wise gods of the Internet suggested for a replacement).
Do they look the like masterpieces at Sprinkles? Hell no. Did they taste pretty good. I’d give them an 8 out of 10. Just be warned that these cupcakes are DEFINITELY an indulgence as there is more butter in them than I care to talk about. Also, don’t put them in the refrigerator as they are pretty dense and refrigerating them will only make them drier. They are best eaten fresh – anything beyond that and I had to eat the top only.
So tell me, what is your all-time favorite cupcake place?
Also, what is your favorite cupcake recipe?
Happy Running!
DEfinately Sprinkles !!! Itnwas my first gourmet cupcake encounter when Inwas in LA, sooooooo glad they opened up at Stanford. I don’t like Kara’s. Sometimes I will motivatvate myself to run the dish telling myself I’m allow one after I finish those hills! My favorite are strawberry and red velvet!!!
Sugar Hoot bake shop in Connecticut! I may be a tiny bit biased because the owner is my best friend and I work there to help her out…but the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake is truly heavenly.
They look awesome! My favorite cupcake place is Crumbs in NYC (but apparently they have a shop in LA now too)
Those look so good! I could go for one RIGHT NOW! I really want to ditch work and head over the cupcake place down the street! That would help relieve some stress!
yum!! i love good, old fashioned, easy devil’s food cake mix from a box 🙂
yum! I made my boyfriend a strawberry cake for his birthday with fresh strawberries it was so good. Home made frosting is also the best!
I really like coconut cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting, i made them back in march and they were delicious!
These look soooo good! I love so many cupcakes I don’t know where to begin, umm funfetti cupcakes if I am making them at home, but any coffee flavored, apple flavored, or sea salted carmel ones have my attention as well. RIght now I have a giant Caramel espresso one on my desk. I am trying really hard to make it to 3pm to eat it….not gonna happen
I got some strawberries from the FM on Saturday and can’t eat them fast enough! I’ve been stressing about them going to waste so this is a great idea! Oh, and Sibby’s are my favorites, although I do like Kara’s too!
Oh man…I made strawberry cupcakes last year and they were AMAZING. The frosting tasted like melted strawberry ice cream. Sooooo good! (And healthy, right? With the fruit?)