Delicious moist Vanilla Cupcakes with homemade Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting. Perfect for parties, celebrations, or just sweet treats for any time of the year.
Vanilla Cupcakes With Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Start your summer off with this delicious easy to make Vanilla Cupcakes with homemade Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting. This was definitely a hit in my home, my kids loved both versions of the frosting and are still raving about them.
I love how light these cupcakes are but yet satisfying, although I’ve never been able to just eat one I’m sure you would enjoy tasting both versions as I did.
Vanilla Cupcakes Ingredients
- Pillsbury Cake Mix
- Substitute Milk for the water ingredient
- Fresh Strawberries
Cut the Strawberries in whatever shape you would like, these are going on top of the cupcakes so they can look however you want them to look.
How to make the Vanilla Cupcakes
Make the Vanilla cupcakes according to the directions on the back of the boxed cake mix. I substitute the milk for the reccomended water ingredient in the recipe, to give the cupcakes a more moist texture.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 1 Package of Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- 2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons of Sugar-Free Strawberry Preserves
- Your choice of sprinkles
Homemade Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Mix in a separate bowl as you wait for cupcakes to bake. Blend with hand mixer 2 sticks of butter and 1 package of Philadelphia cream cheese until well blended. Add slowly 2 Cups of powdered sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, mix well.
Add more powdered sugar or less powdered sugar until you reach the consistency you wish for. Add in two tablespoons of strawberry preserves until well blended.
How To Make Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Heat 2 Tablespoons of butter in a sauce pan or frying pan. Pour half of the strawberry cream cheese frosting in a separate bowl. Add 1 Cup your choice of semi sweet chocolate chips. Cook on low heat and continue to stir until melted. Add this melted chocolate to one of the bowls of strawberry cream cheese frosting. Mix Well.
If you would like the mix to look darker simply use dark chocolate chips or melt more chocolate chips to the mix in the frosting.
Vanilla Cupcakes With Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Delicious moist Vanilla Cupcakes with homemade Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting. Perfect for parties, celebrations, or just sweet treats for any time of the year.
Ingredients
- Pillsbury Cake Mix
- 1 Package of Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- 2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons of Sugar-Free Strawberry Preserves
- Your choice of sprinkles
Instructions
- Mix Pillsbury Cake Mix (or your own choice of cake mix) together with ingredients listed on the back of the box. However! SUBSTITUTE the water for milk in this recipe.
- Spoon cake batter into cupcake pans and fill them halfway.
- Bake at 350 Degree’s for 15 Minutes. When finished pull and set on wire wrack to cool down.
- Cut Strawberries in whatever shape you want them to be.
- Mix in a separate bowl as you wait for cupcakes to bake. 2 sticks of butter and 1 package of Philadelphia cream cheese until smooth.
- Add slowly 2 Cups of powdered sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, mix well. Add more powdered sugar or less powdered sugar until you reach the consistency you wish for.
- Add in two tablespoons of strawberry preserves until well blended.
- When cupcakes have cooled top them with a generous amount of strawberry cream cheese frosting then serve! Store them in your fridge for up to 3 days.
- Enjoy!
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These look yummy! The cream cheese icing is just the “cherry on top”
You can me at cream cheese. 🙂 I wish that I was good at baking. I want to learn how to decorate cupcakes and stuff. These look delicious.
All I can say is on nom nom nom. I love cream cheese and strawberry…. oh, and cupcakes too. My son would totally drool if I made these. lol
This sounds amazing! I would love anything with strawberries though!
I’m usually not a huge fan of strawberry flavored stuff but I think I’d make these. Love the combo of vanilla and strawberry, together.
Love the toppings on your fun cupcakes! They look lovely AND delicious!
My husband loves strawberries and he is the baker in the house. 🙂 I will show this to him. I think he would love to make ’em.
Wow these looks so tasty. I would love to eat one right now! Thanks for sharing the recipe, I may have to make this soon!
Yum! I’m all about fruits lately, and love cupcakes so this is just perfect. They look amazing and the frosting sounds heavenly!
Cream cheese frosting is my favorite frosting. Add some strawberries and I’m in heaven. Your cupcakes look amazing! Wish I had one for breakfast!
I am craving for a cupcake right now! Those cupcakes are so pretty and they look yummy.
YUMMY! These look so delicious. I love strawberry cream cheese so I think I would really like this. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve never made strawberry cream cheese icing and this looks divine! Thanks for the yummy recipe!!
Yum! They look so good! And with the sliced strawberries on them, I could even pretend they’re healthy!
Wow, these cupcakes look so yummy. I love strawberries with a passion, I would devour these really fast!
Those look so good! I love chocolate AND cream cheese frosting. I’d have to make both!
Ooh what an awesome treat! I’ve been craving strawberries and this would be the perfect recipe for them!
These looks super tasty! I would love to have one lol. I will show this to my daughter, I am sure she would love to make some.
These look simply divine! Cupcakes never last long at our house, especially pretty ones like these!
Yum! I can almost taste them through your pictures! These sound amazing! Thank you for the recipe!! These would be great for a strawberry shortcake party!
Omg how yum. These kind of look like the ones my MIL made us for our wedding day!!
Those sound absolutely amazing. I definitely cannot wait to try these. I think they would be a huge hit with my kids.
These cupcakes sound delicious. I love how you went with a fairly plain cupcake and then jazzed it up with that strawberry cream cheese frosting. Yum!
WOW, now I want a cupcake. Thank you for the recipe and specially for the frosting, always looking for delicious frosting recipes.