Strawberries galore!

So I had two containers of strawberries that I bought this weekend and were like 5 seconds from going to the great strawberry field in the sky (aka my trash can). I hate to be wasteful, so I just had to figure out how to use them. First things first, strawberry muffins. Why not, right? Here's what they looked like going into the oven



Nothing too exciting, but I added the brown sugar because I felt like making them look pretty :)

This is how they looked after their trip into my oven.



Not too shabby! They look a little light, but the toothpick came out clean.

These muffins can be re-created with blueberries or raspberries or peaches I'd imagine would be good too. I would suggest adding a smidge more butter maybe? Maybe some oil? They are a hint too dry, but the flavor is just right.

P.S. If you want to do peach, add in some cinnamon to bring out the peachy-ness. Yum!

Next up: Sprinkles Strawberry Cupcakes a la Martha Stewart.

These are pretty easy considering they're from one of the most popular bake shops (Sprinkles). They'd better be good!!! :)

First things first- two recipes in one night means a messy kitchen...


Quite the whirlwind. It's all cleaned now and the cupcakes next went into the oven:


Not too tasty-looking from here but alas, we're not finished yet!

When the lovelies came out of the oven, they were PURPLE! Yay for purple cupcakes.

Here's hoping they taste better than a purple strawberry :) Although I'm not quite sure how that would taste. Anyhoodles. Since the reviews of the frosting said it was too buttery, I went with a slightly modified recipe of Strawberry cream cheese frosting and I can attest to its deliciousness.

Yay again for Strawberry cupcakes!!!! And not being wasteful!

Yum-OH!

Turns out these cupcakes were actually a little short on strawberry-ness, but the delightful frosting MORE than made up for any lack of fruit and the cupcakes were perfectly and deliciously moist.