Take your cupcakes to another level with this strawberry French toast cupcakes recipe. You will find strawberries on the bottom, buttercream frosting and French toast croutons on top, drizzled with maple syrup and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. With fruity flavor and rich toppings, these dazzling and delicate French toast cupcakes will be everyone’s favorite
Strawberry French Toast Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
For cupcake batter
- 3 ½ cups (430 g) of all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cups (265 g) of caster sugar, superfine (buy here)
- 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- ½ teaspoon of fine salt
- ½ cup (125 g) of unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups (375 ml) of whole milk, full-cream
- ½ cup (125 ml) of vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons of Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract (buy here)
- 4 tablespoons of maple syrup (buy here)
- ½ cup (150 g) of strawberries, cut into small pieces, and freeze
For buttercream frosting
- 125 g of unsalted butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons of maple syrup
For croutons
- White bread, sliced into cubes
- Cinnamon sugar (mix 50 g of caster sugar with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder)
Equipment
- Cooking spray
- Stand mixer
- One mixing bowl and one small bowl
- Baking cups or cupcake liners (buy here)
- Cooling rack
- Baking tray
- Piping bag and star piping tip (buy here)
- Oven
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 356°F
- In your mixer bowl, stir in the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, and salt. Use low speed to combine all these ingredients and add butter
- Mix again until the texture is close to fine sand
- In another mixing bowl, add milk, eggs, yogurt, oil, maple syrup, and vanilla extract and stir to combine. Slowly add this wet mixture to the mixer bowl
- Mix this batter until even and soft
- Scoop a tablespoon of frozen strawberries into the bottom of each baking cup, followed by two tablespoons of batter to fill ¾ of the cup. Repeat this step for the remaining cups
- Bake for 20-25 minutes and use a skewer to check the doneness
- In the meantime, you can prepare to make buttercream frosting. In a small bowl, add 125 grams of unsalted butter and 3 tablespoons of maple syrup and mix well
- If you are done baking, remove those French toast cupcakes from the oven, set aside on the cooling rack, and wait until completely cool
- You need to bake again for the croutons, so prepare your oven first. Slice the white bread into cubes and transfer them to the baking tray. Spray with cooking spray and evenly coat with cinnamon sugar. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the croutons are dry and light brown
- Set your piping bag with a star piping tip and frost each cupcake in a spiral motion
- Top with croutons, drizzle with maple syrup, and add a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar before serving You can also replace croutons with marshmallows if you want something simpler
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Recommended Products
1. Judee’s Superfine Caster Sugar
The crystals are made from pure sugar and packed in a 2.5-pounds bag. It is a nut-free product and has more sweetness compared to regular sugar. It is perfect for light and airy baked goods, including meringues, shortbreads, macaroons, and sponge cakes. With its dissolvable texture, it will also work great for beverages like coffee, tea, and syrup, as well as icings, custards, mousses, and whipped cream.
2. Maple Grove Farms Syrup
It is labelled as ‘grade A’ maple syrup with great flavor, color, and consistency. With amber color, this syrup will make about 8 servings. Each serving does not contain high fructose corn syrup, fat, sodium, or cholesterol. Just drizzle it over your strawberry cupcakes and you will have a more healthy choice for your sweet treat with no artificial flavor or preservatives.
3. Taylor & Colledge Vanilla Bean Paste
No need to fuss with your paste, for it is packed in a 1.7-oz tube. This paste is made from gluten-free ingredients, like vanilla extract, sugar, inulin, vanilla seeds, and gum tragacanth, with no preservative. It adds more intense flavor and aroma and gives a thicker consistency to your batter, cake mix, icings, desserts, creams, and ice creams.
4. Amazon Basics Reusable Baking Cups
You will get 12 colored baking cups, which are made of food-grade, BPA-free material and have a height of 1.38 inches. They are perfect not only for your French toast cupcakes and muffins but also for molded gelatins, mini cheesecakes, and lunch or snack cups. They work with any standard muffin pan or for freestanding use on a baking sheet and are safe up to 428°F with easy food release silicone
5. Wilton Decorating Tip 6B
This is a type of open star piping tip and comes in 1x1x1 inches for parchment or uncut bags. Its finely cut teeth have an open end that will allow you to create decorative shapes for your baked goods. It works with most standard bags and couplers and even fits large couplers. You can frost your favorite cakes and treats by swirling it over to make stars, flowers, rosettes, or borders