Happy Happy Wednesday y’all!!! I’m bringing you guys another re-post today because these absolutely delicious cupcakes just happen to be one of my favorite flavors as well as my favorite in the way that they look. I mean, come on, they have hearts on top that are filled with an incredible chocolate frosting. Anyways, as always thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you can make this fantastic cupcakes for your sweetheart too. Have a wonderful day!
Oh how I love Valentine’s Day, even when I was single for a million years for a while I still loved it. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a holiday that is focused on all things chocolate, pink and red, and hello, chocolate covered strawberries are seriously one of the best things (food wise) I’ve ever received for this awesome holiday.
I’m a sucker for a fun and (obviously) delicious cupcake and wanted to recreate chocolate covered strawberries with my favorite strawberry cake recipe with a whipped chocolate frosting. This cake recipe is amazing, easy to make, tastes incredible, and even tastes better after a couple days because the strawberries in the mix moisten the cake even more. I also just so happened to have a small heart shaped biscuit cutter which I cut out the middle of the cupcake and filled with the whipped chocolate frosting. Oh my gosh y’all these are so incredible and just so darn cute I can’t even handle it 🙂 These would be wonderful to make for the sweetheart(s) in your life, or heck, just treat yourself.
Start with your white cake mix and 3 tablespoons of flour…
Then add your strawberry jello mix…
Then add your eggs…
Then add your water and vegetable oil…
Then add you strawberries…
Mix, mix, mix..look how yummy and pretty…
Bake up these lovelies…
So now for the frosting..start with milk and flour…
Heat and mix until it’s the texture of thin mashed potatoes and remove from the heat…
While the flour/milk mixture is cooling, take your butter…
Whip your butter until creamy…
Then add your sugar…
Whip, whip, whip until smooth and creamy…
Then add your cooled milk/flour mixture…
And whip the heck out of it until it’s the texture of whipped cream…
Then add your cocoa powder and mix, mix, mix…
Take your cupcake and with a small biscuit or cookie cutter cut out the cute little heart shape and sprinkle with powdered sugar…
You can use a piping bag or spoon to fill the heart with chocolate frosting…
Then enjoy!
So yummy…
Delicious!
- 1 Box of White Cake Mix.
- 1 Package of Strawberry Jello Mix.
- 3 Tablespoon of Flour.
- 4 Eggs.
- 1/2 Cup of Water.
- 1 Cup of Vegetable Oil.
- 1/2 Package of Frozen Strawberries in Syrup (16 Ounces) or Fresh Strawberries.
- 1 Cup of Milk.
- 5 Tablespoons of Flour.
- 2 Sticks of Unsalted Butter, Softened.
- 1 Cup of Granulated Sugar.
- 3 Tablespoons of Cocoa Powder.
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
- Line 24 cupcake tins with liners and set aside.
- With a handheld or stand mixer with paddle attachment mix your cake mix, flour, jello mix, eggs, water, vegetable oil and frozen strawberries until well incorporated.
- With an ice cream scoop or spoon, fill your liners 3/4 of the way full and bake for 18-22 minutes or until they spring back to the touch.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, heat your milk and flour stirring constantly until it becomes the texture of thin mashed potatoes and remove from the heat.
- Let the flour/milk mixture cool completely.
- In a stand mixer with paddle attachment or hand mixer whip your butter, then add your sugar and whip together until light and fluffy.
- Now add your flour/milk mixture to the sugar and butter and whip, whip, whip until it is the texture of whipped cream.
- Now add your cocoa powder and whip until completely incorporated.
- Enjoy this amazing whipped chocolate frosting.
- Since I used light colored cupcake tins I set my oven to 375 degrees F, if you are using dark colored cupcake tins set your oven to 350 degrees F.
- I used a small heart shaped biscuit cutter to make the heart shapes in the cupcakes then used a Wilton disposable bag with a Wilton 12 tip to fill the hearts.