I love to find unique and fun cupcake recipes to try and thought these Strawberry Filled Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting might be good. They turned out to be AMAZING! They are really easy to make, but look and taste like something straight out of a gourmet bakery.
Definitely a must-try recipe!
Strawberry Filled Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Frosting
CUPCAKE INGREDIENTS
Boxed cake mix (I use this kind)
3 Large Eggs
1/2 cup melted butter (not margarine)
1 cup of water
STRAWBERRY FILLING INGREDIENTS
One jar of high-end strawberry jelly or preserves (my favorite)
2 oz Cream Cheese
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Mix with food processor or mixer until smooth and thoroughly mixed.
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING INGREDIENTS
10 Tbsp butter, slightly firm but not cold
10 oz cream cheese, cold
2 1 /2 Tbsp sour cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
5 cups powdered sugar
In a large bowl, mix butter and cream cheese together on medium speed. Whip until fluffy, approximately one minute. Mix in cream cheese and vanilla extract. Add powdered sugar in slowly and mix until smooth, approximately three minutes.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat over to 350°. Line muffin or cupcake pan with 24 cupcake liner cups.
2. In a large bowl, add cake mix, eggs, butter and water. Mix on low for one minute until ingredients are combined and then switch to high for approximately one minute until batter is thick and creamy.
3. Spoon batter into cupcake liners.
4. Bake for 20 minutes at 350°.
5. Once cupcakes have cooled completely, cut a round plug out of each cupcake with a cupcake corer. If you don’t have a cupcake corer, you can use a sharp knife or apple corer, but be sure keep the plug round and evenly cut. Set the plugs aside to use later.
6. Pipe or spoon strawberry filling into each cupcake center. Leave a little bit of room at the top.
7. Take the plugs you removed and close each hole. You may want to pull a little piece of cake off the plug to make it fit better.
8. Frost cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing.
* For a gorgeous look, make swirled cupcake frosting – it’s super easy!
Hope you enjoy them! If you love the Strawberry Filled Cupcakes, be sure to try the Heart in the Middle Cupcakes and Cookies & Cream Cupcakes too!
Let me know if you make them – I’d love to see your pics! 🙂
This sounds like it could be a fun Valentine’s project with my niece.
Did you use the strawberry filling in the piping bag with the cream cheese frosting for the swirl?
Hey! I just used red gel food coloring. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to make the swirls – it’s super easy! 🙂
https://ahelicoptermom.com/swirled-cupcake-frosting-tutorial
OMG! These cupcakes look AWESOME!
These are so cute and sound delicious!
These look amazing! Not sure how good mine will look, still will be quite tasty – yum!
Have I died and gone to Heaven? These look so good…lighty and fluffy and very easy to make. The fewer ingredients the better. 🙂
These cupcakes look so yummy! And anything with Cream Cheese is even better. lol I have never made vwhite cupcakes with a filling before. I usually make chocolate cupcakes. I think I am going to try white cupcakes the next time!
Oh yum. I probably wouldn’t be able to stop if I started eating these.
Looks delicious ! i hope you dont mind if i re-blog this on my site 🙂
I absolutely love to bake! I will definitely try out this recipe one day! Thank you for sharing!
I can not wait to make this for my family for Valentines day! The step by step pictures really help in putting it all together. Everyone just love strawberries so this will be a hit.
They look absolutely delicious.I love the way you made the icing sugar and decorated them.
These look amazing! If I make them a day ahead or if there are any left, do they need to be refrigerated?
Thank you!
I refrigerate them just to be safe and they hold up just fine. 🙂
these look delicious. yummy good. ( :
Can’t wait to do these for my family. They are going to love them. Thanks for sharing.
This is the first strawberry filled cupcake recipe that I’ve encountered. The cream cheese frosting is perfect as well! Proceeding to bake!
How many cupcakes does this make? And what size jar of strawberry jellie did you use?
The Simply Fruit jar was 10oz and the cake mix I used makes 24 cupcakes. 🙂
These look really good, thank you for sharing.
I may have to try making these.
i don’t usually like cupcakes, but these look delicious!
I am definitely making these!
These are so lovely for any occasion and look scrumptious !
These look delicious! I would like to try making them for our church’s woman’s retreat.
Holy moly and I thought the Oreo cupcakes were awesome and now I have to make these too. I think I just need to follow your blog so I don’t miss any recipes or giveaways.Thank you for sharing all your delish recipes 🙂
these look amazing, can’t wait to try them…
These are adorable and look sooo yummy. A good combo with the oreo ones for a party cupcake tray. Thanks!
This looks so fun and kind of easy. Thanks for the recipe. I checked out the tutorial too.
This sounds yummy and fattening, good for me! 🙂
Wow,putting these on my to do list,yumm:)
these cupcakes looks awesome…i think i am going to be trying these with my sister.
Wow these are so cute, and sound amazing!!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe and how to do this!
These look amazing! My husband just demanded (jokingly), “I want some now!” 😉 Little does he know he’s going to have to wait until at least Wednesday before I get a chance to bake!
What a delicious filling inside! I’d love to try and make this recipe!
Strawberries are my favorite fruit. We always buy buckets of them to put up freezer jelly each year. The puree before adding pectin would be wonderful in this I think! Nothing beats fresh strawberry flavor! I am going to take a stab at the swirled frosting too.
These look yummy. I am so jealous of people that can bake and create such delicious looking pieces of edible art.
I’ll pay ya to make me some of these cupcakes.
These look so fancy and delicious. I will have to try and make them and hope they look as good of yours . thanks for the recipe
I think those would be a big hit at my house.And they are so pretty!
What lovely cupcakes. Thank you for sharing and pinning for later.
This one is a wonderful treat. I was wondering how you stuffed them. Wow so gorgeous too! I love them and wish I had them now!! Thanks again for another fabulous recipe!!
YUM!!! These look delicious!!!
I best pin this and show it to my sister or share the url here. I know she loves making cupcakes and will try this for sure. Thanks!