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To celebrate this wonderful day in New England where it got up to 84 degrees out in April I decided a couple of days ago to make strawberry cupcakes with a kiwi frosting. Now I winged it when it came to the frosting but I did my best to keep the measurements written down but the cupcakes came out amazing and the frosting was just superb. Perfect cupcake for this type of weather, summery. More pictures and the recipe after the cut.


















Strawberry Cupcakes (NOTE: they were not overpowered with strawberry flavor, but they were moist.)
Makes 12 cupcakes:


2 1/2 Cups Flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick of butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup strawberry yogurt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend butter and sugar together then stir in each egg one at a time. Then add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and vanilla extract. Mix well. Then add yogurt. Mix thoroughly.

Place 1/4 cup portions into cupcake pan (inside paper or greased) and bake for about 15-20 minutes or until spongy to the touch.

Enjoy!

Kiwi Buttercream Frosting:

3 cups confectionery sugar
1 stick of butter, softened
1/2 cup of kiwi puree or just plain old mashed up kiwis (that's what I used)
some vanilla extract to flavor

Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the kiwi, mix well. add vanilla at your own disgression.

Enjoy!