Strawberry Sourdough Cupcakes
These are probably the most moist cupcake you will ever try! The fresh strawberries help with this, but so does the sourdough starter. I start making these the night before, so that the sourdough has time to work it's magical powers! You could make these same day, but the benefits of the sourdough helping to break down the flour will be limited.
Ingredients
Night Before
- 2&1/3 cups Fresh Milled Flour 280g I milled soft white wheat to get this
- 1/2 cup extra light olive oil 110g
- 1/2 cup sourdough starter or discard (either state will work)
- 1 cup warm black tea 240g (Not Hot) could use strawberry tea or just warm water
Next Day
- 2 eggs 100g
- 1&3/4 cups sugar 300g
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract I love to make it homemade
- 3/4 cup whole milk 180g
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup cut up fresh strawberries 166g
Frosting
- 1&1/2 cup softened butter 340g 3 sticks
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/4 tsp salt if using unsalted butter
- 3-4 cups Powdered sugar 360g-480g depending on the level of sweetness you like
- 1 cup sliced strawberries for garnish
Instructions
The Night Before
- Firstly, mill the flour
- Make sure to set 3 sticks of butter out, so it is nice and softened for the frosting
- Then, mix the Fresh milled flour, warm tea (Not too Hot, under 100*F), olive oil, and sourdough starter in a bowl. And, mix until there is no dry flour.
- Cover, and let sit at room temperature overnight or up to 24 hours.
The Next Day
- Preheat Oven to 350*F
- In a mixing bowl, add sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs, and milk and mix together.
- Then add sourdough mixture into the sugar mixture, and mix until incorporated, but don't overmix.
- Dice up fresh strawberries, and add to the batter, and stir in gently.
- Lastly, to the batter, sprinkle in baking soda and mix to combine.
- Now, line the cupcake tin, and add about 1/4 cup of batter into each well.
- Bake cupcakes for 15-20 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then remove and cool the rest of the way on a wire cooling rack.
- Make frosting, and all cupcakes to cool completely until frosting them.
- Frost cupcakes, once they are cooled, and add a slice of Fresh strawberry to the top for garnish.
Make The Frosting
- In a stand mixer, add softened butter, and begin to whisk.
- Then, add vanilla and salt(if using unsalted butter)
- Slowly whisk in powdered sugar one cup at a time.
- Once the powdered sugar is incorporated, then turn the speed up.
- If too thick, you can add a tablespoon of whole milk here.
- Add powdered sugar until you reach your desired sweetness level.
- It should become nice & fluffy.
- Put the frosting in a piping bag (or plastic bag), and pipe on cooled cupcakes.
- Garnish with a sliced strawberry.
- Lastly, ENJOY!
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Notes
You could use regular white flour for this recipe, but you may need to adjust the amount of flour down.
You can be creative with the frosting, and add strawberries into it, or make it chocolate, or add cream cheese. Whatever flavor you like!
Cute idea for Valentines Day, is to cut the garnish strawberries in half, and shape them to look like a heart - see photos in the post.
These freeze so nicely, if you are lucky enough to have extra!