You may have guessed that I was put in charge of desserts for this past weekend between this recipe and my Cheesecake Topped with Fresh Nectarine post yesterday. If you follow LFK on Facebook {and you totally should}, then you also know my weakness lately is the cupcake! This one here, YUM! Chocolate and strawberries just go together perfectly! With a chocolate dipped strawberry in mind, I thought why not make a Chocolate Cupcake with Strawberry Buttercream! A wonderfully moist chocolate cupcake and that creamy sweet strawberry buttercream… perfect combination of flavors and just beautiful!!!
I remember the first time I attempted to make a strawberry buttercream it was a total fail! The reason you ask…. I used fresh strawberries, no good! It came out to watery because of all the juice that came out of the strawberries. Solution? Freeze dried strawberries and just a bit of strawberry jam… all the flavor without all the liquid. The result is not only delicious but just gorgeous as well!
The chocolate cake recipe I use here is the same I used for my Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream I shared a while back… why mess with a good thing especially since it took me many attempts to get a chocolate cake that I was really really happy with!
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