Confetti Cupcakes with Homemade Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
These moist, fluffy, delicious, and fun confetti cupcakes with homemade strawberry buttercream frosting are made using a cake mix.
Serving24 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix, (I used a 16.25 oz Duncan Hines cake mix)
- 4 egg white
- ¼ cup oil
- ¾ cup milk, (I used 1%)
- ¾ cup sour cream, (I used light)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup sprinkles, (whatever color you want)
Frosting Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, (2 sticks - at room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup strawberry jam, or preserves (I used our Homemade Freezer Jam)
- 4-5 cups powdered sugar, (just keep adding it until it's the consistency you want)
- 2 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl combine the egg whites, oil, milk, sour cream, and vanilla gently with a whisk. Then sift in your cake mix and sprinkles and gently stir.
- Fill 24 cupcake liners ¾ full with cupcake batter and bake at 350℉ for 15-20 minutes (or until a toothpick stuck in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean).
- Beat butter and vanilla together until fluffy. Add strawberry jam and beat until incorporated.
- Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time. Mix until frosting is fluffy. It will seem kind of dry, so add 1-2 Tablespoons of milk until it's the consistency you like.
- Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and top with sprinkles (if you want).
Notes
By adding the powdered sugar a little at a time you avoid a cloud of powdered sugar once you turn on the beaters.
You can also jog (quickly turning the mixer on and off multiple times) the beaters a few times to also avoid getting sprayed with powdered sugar.
Continue to mix the frosting until all of the powdered sugar has been added and is buttery soft and fluffy. The mix will seem to be a little dry. Add in 1-2 Tablespoons of milk at a time until the desired consistency is reached.
Lastly, fill either a piping bag or a ziploc bag (or any resealable bag) with the corner cut off, and pipe the strawberry buttercream frosting onto the cooled confetti cupcakes and top them off with sprinkles.
Nutrition
Calories: 297 kcal · Carbohydrates: 45 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 13 g · Saturated Fat: 7 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 25 mg · Sodium: 237 mg · Potassium: 50 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 35 g · Vitamin A: 296 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 69 mg · Iron: 1 mg