Strawberry Tuxedo Cupcakes
From notyourmomma 16 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 60
We had a contest at work for Valentines' day. Make a creative cupcake. This was my after a long day at work, quick fix entry. It came in first place with the judges. Thank you Plant City Strawberries! They are so good. Read more They were bigger than the mini cupcake underneath. See less
Ingredients
- 1 box of red velvet cake mix shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups of mixed berry juice (made from frozen concentrate) shopping list
- 1/3 cup of cocoa powder shopping list
- 1 1/2 tbsp of red food coloring shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1/3 cup of oil shopping list
- 60 strawberries, stems on, washed and dried shopping list
- 1 bag white chocolate chips shopping list
- 1 bag of Ghiradelli semisweet chocolate chips shopping list
- 2 tsp of vegetable oil shopping list
- mini cup cake liners shopping list
- 1 tube of red frosting shopping list
- plastic coupler and small round tip shopping list
- large can of whipped vanilla frosting-extra fluffy shopping list
- 1/2 tsp of almond extract shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place liners in 60 mini muffin tins-5 pans.
- Prepare cake mix as directed, using mixed berry juice instead of water, adding the extra cocoa, eggs, red food coloring and oil.
- Fill cupcake pans only three quarters full.
- You don't want high rounded tops on these little cupcakes,
- You want them flat so that the strawberries will sit on them.
- Bake 13 to 14 minutes.
- Cool on wire racks.
- Whip the canned frosting adding the almond extract. Set aside.
- Prepare two double boilers with simmering water, melt chips separately in each bowl.
- Add a tsp of oil to each bag of melting chips, stir well.
- Dip the front face of each strawberry in the melted white cocoa chips.
- Set on wax paper lined cookie sheet.
- Chill strawberries until the white chocolate sets.
- Dip each chilled strawberry diagonally in the dark chocolate from each side to just cover the white part leaving a white triangle center and dark chocolate corners.
- Place on wax paper lined cookie sheet, chill unti chocolate sets.
- Using small round tip on the purchased red frosting tube, pipe
- little dots and one "x" as the bow tie on each strawberry.
- (this is very hard to do with minor arthritic hands, by the way)
- Frost each cupcake with enough of the frosting to make a base for the strawberry and kind of glue it into place.
- Add the strawberry topper to each cup cake.
- Transport is difficult, it can be done with a white shirt box lined with foil and twisted plastic wrap in coils around the outer side of the box to keep the berries from toppling.
- Hope you win the silly contest because it is very late.
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
Congratulations on your award winning cupcakes. I hope they appreciated your hard work. They look great! I'm so proud of you! Jett
jett2whit
in Union City loved it
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Yes they are really big those strawberries and you are a genious..I wish you had posted some step by step ones...May be next contest!! Thanks for sending this great one.
ahmed1
in Cairo loved it
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Grrrrrreat....:)
wynnebaer
in Dunnellon loved it
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