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Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

May 1, 2015 by ChiChi Dodoo 9 Comments

Light fluffy vanilla cupcake frosted with silky satiny strawberry swiss meringue buttercream.

Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Happy May Day!!!

May 1st sees the official start to the British strawberry season as well as other berries. The weather is milder, there are longer days and more sunshine. Though we haven’t had much sunshine this week. I get so excited when berry season starts, it means lots of different varieties of strawberries, blueberries , blackberries and much much more. In my garden we have wild blackberries bushes. Can’t wait to harvest some blackberries, I am still thinking what to make with them.  Any suggestions? Would love to hear some.

Today I am sharing with you my favourite cupcake and buttercream recipe. Nothing beats a light fluffy vanilla cupcake. I have been tinkering around and baking lots many vanilla cupcake recipes for a long time. This is my go to recipe for a light, fluffy, moist vanilla cupcake.

Before making the vanilla cupcake, make sure all your butter, eggs and milk are at room temperature. Remove dairy products from fridge at least an hour before baking. Egg whites and yolks combine easier when at room temperature and will disperse more evenly into the batter. Batters made with room temperature ingredients mix together easily, are smooth and produce light airy evenly baked treats.

When I first started baking I was impatient that I missed these steps and resulted in dense or even hard cakes. You find when you try and cream cold butter with sugar, what you get is a clumpy mixture when infact you want the mixture to be fluffy.

If you are pressed for time, warm up your butter in the microwave a few seconds at time, checking often until softened.  Cold eggs can be brought to room temperature by placing them in a bowl of warm water for 10 – 15 minutes.

Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

The buttercream recipe is my all time favourite, swiss meringue buttercream. Silky, velvety, delicious swiss meringue buttercream. It may be a bit time consuming, yet worth it. Swiss meringue buttercream is made with egg whites, sugar and butter.

My recipe is adapted from Sweetapolita. For successful swiss meringue buttercream

  • First make sure all equipment are grease free.  Pour a little vinegar or lemon juice into a paper towel and use to wipe all equipment. Any grease and we won’t have the meringue bit.
  • Invest in a  jam or candy thermometer. The egg whites and sugar will have to be heated until the temperature reaches 160 degrees F.  If you haven’t got a thermometer, once sugar melts and the egg whites are hot.
  • Don’t panic if the swiss meringue buttercream looks curdled like scrambled eggs after you add the butter, keep whipping at a low speed and the mixture will come together.

To make the strawberry swiss meringue I added fresh pureed strawberries to the vanilla swiss meringue .  The amount of strawberry puree you add will be to taste. I love how the buttercream is bursting with strawberry flavour and natural taste of that the fresh strawberries give.

Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

 

Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

I love how the light fluffy vanilla cupcake paired with silky satiny strawberry swiss meringue. Simply delicious!!!

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Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Prep Time: 40 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 12 cupcakes

Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Ingredients

    For Vanilla Cupcake
  • 180 g (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, room temp
  • 200 g (1 cup) caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 180 g (11/2 cup) plain flour
  • 11/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 60 ml (1/4 cup) milk, room temperature
  • For Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream
  • 250 g (11/4 cup) caster sugar
  • 150 g ( 5 large) egg whites
  • 360 g (11/2 cup) unsalted butter, cut into cubes and cool#
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 200 g (7.1 ounces) fresh strawberries, pureed
  • pinch of salt
  • few drops pink food colouring (optional)

Instructions

For Cupcake

Preheat oven to 170 degrees celcius. Line muffin tray with paper liners.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.

In the bowl of stand mixer or using a hand mixer beat butter and sugar until fluffy, about 5 minutes

Add eggs and egg white one at a time, beating well after each addition occasionally scrapping down the sides of bowl. Mix in vanilla extract.

Alternatively add the flour mixture and milk in 3 parts, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

Divide batter among paper liners and bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Remove cupcakes from oven and place on cooling rack for 10 minutes. Carefully remove cupcakes from pan and leave to cool completely on rack before frosting.

For Strawberry Swiss Meringue

Wipe bowl of mixer , attachments and whisk with a paper towel and lemon juice to remove any trace of grease.

In bowl of stand mixer combine sugar, egg whites and salt over a pot of simmering water. Gently whisk constantly until mixture is warm to touch and sugar has completely dissolved and or until temperature reaches 140 degrees F on a candy thermometer.

Using a whisk attachment starting to whisk until meringue is thick and glossy and completely cool, about 10 minutes.( Test by touching bottom of the bowl)

Switch to a paddle attachment and with mixer on low speed add butter cubes one at a time mixing well after each addition and beat until frosting is smooth. Add vanilla and beat on low speed until well combined.

Add a quarter cup or more of strawberry puree to mixture and beat until combined. If desired add pink food colour.

To Assembly

Insert a 1M or 2D nozzle into a piping bag and fill with strawberry buttercream and gently squeeze the piping bag and allow the buttercream to fall onto the cupcake. Keep piping round the cupcake, keeping the tip of the nozzle raised slightly above the cupcake. As you pipe make the circles smaller till you get to the centre of the cupcake.

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Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

 

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Comments

  1. immaculate says

    May 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    Chi chi, I love summer too! Who doesn’t? With all the berries and fruits that are in season- This cup cake looks absolutely Divine! My son would go crazy over this. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Avatar photoChiChi Dodoo says

      May 3, 2015 at 9:06 pm

      I really can’t wait for summer to arrive :-). Thank you for stopping by Immaculate.

      Reply
  2. Sandra @ Heavenly Deviled Eggs says

    May 3, 2015 at 12:22 am

    What beautiful cupcakes! And so many great baking tips. Thanks!

    Pinned to Pinterest. 🙂

    Reply
    • Avatar photoChiChi Dodoo says

      May 3, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      Thank for the lovely comment and pin Sandra 🙂

      Reply
    • Avatar photoChiChi Dodoo says

      May 3, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      Thank for the lovely comment and pin Sandra 🙂

      Reply
  3. Amanda says

    May 3, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    These cupcakes are so pretty!

    Reply
    • Avatar photoChiChi Dodoo says

      May 3, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      Thank you Amanda

      Reply
  4. Phoebe says

    May 19, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    These look absolutely amazing! Love how you piped them

    Reply
    • Avatar photoChiChi Dodoo says

      May 22, 2016 at 1:00 pm

      Thank you Phoebe

      Reply

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