Did you send your entry to Culinary Smackdown Battle-Mango Desserts?Please see details of the ongoing event here. Hurry..just a week more to go, contest ends 28th April 2011, Pacific time.
So I have reached the 100th post mark.Woo Hoo!! Welcome! It’s a special day on Sinfully Spicy today.A sweet treat to celebrate a milestone as this is long due on my blog.My first blog post was not a dessert recipe,I did not even notice when the 50th post passed by.I would have missed this time around too had I not compiled the recipe index for the blog a few weeks back.It was then that I noticed that I have whopping 97 recipes on my blog in a span of just 9 months.Phew!
I think I will reserve description of my blogging journey so far for July,when I complete a year of blogging.Do remember to stop by then.Today its about YOU.I want to personally thank each one of you who take out few minutes from your day to stop by at Sinfully Spicy and appreciate what I do.Its all the kind words that I read from each one of you that brighten up my sometimes gloomy days.I was vacillating between whether to continue blogging or not a couple of months back,it was a difficult time but I guess I made a good decision to carry on.On the cue,I got mails from few readers who tried out the recipes from the blog and liked them.It was such a big confidence booster and kept me going.Thanks so much.There’s no looking back since then.
Sinfully Spicy is now a part of the our weekly menu planning & grocery shopping. To say the least,blogging has played such an important role in preserving the recipes of my family for all the coming years.I have started my own blog to refer to our family favorite recipes sometimes.My sincere wish is that someday my children and grand children will use this blog to cook recipes in their kitchen.Amen!
Other than that, what makes me happy is that during the course of few months I have met so many beautiful people from around the world.With few of them, I share more than just food.I love you guys.You are such an awesome company.I may have not met any of you but you are so much a part of my daily life.Thanks for being there and accepting me as a part of this wonderful food blogger community.Thanks so much.I would also like to thank all the blog subscribers, followers and anyone who has stopped by here ever. Sinfully Spicy has mostly been about north indian food,my effort is to make traditional indian dishes accessible to everyone.I am trying to include some fusion dishes in the blog with ingredients I did not grow up with but developed a taste for them over the years.Be ready to see more fusion as well as indian recipes in the coming months – all spiced up.
My 100th post coincided with Easter weekend and a block party in our complex on Thursay.I picked up the job of baking ,mainly because I m not too comfortable cooking savory stuff.I do not cook pork or beef so deciding on menu is difficult for me. And as such desserts are easier 
I wanted to bake something spring[y] in addition to please all the kids which would be main guests at the party.I googled and found recipes of fresh strawberry cupcakes at sources mentioned below. I am one of those person who is madly in love with pink color.I saw these recipes and decided on them instantly.They are just so so beautiful.I had a 2 boxes of strawberries I picked up from Costco which had to be used.These cupcakes were polished off in no time, I think the main attraction was the pink color of these cupcakes and the sour cream chocolate frosting.
I have used this recipe from Smitten Kitchen which was adapted to make these cupcakes by Lori Lange of Recipe Girl.I have not made any changes to the recipe coz I m not very confident adapting recipes of baked goods.On the taste side, I found these cupcakes really moist and buttery with a hint of fresh fruit.The batter is so so addictive, I would have eaten almost 1/2 cup of raw batter,it tastes like strawberry ice cream.They were not too sweet which is how I like them.To make these kid friendly,I compensated for the sweetness by increasing sugar in the frosting.Undoubtedly one of the best cupcakes I have eaten in a long time.And mind you, you can’t eat just one.This is now one of my favorite cupcake recipes.Deb of Smitten Kitten has indicated in her recipe to pop up the quantity of food color to bring out the real pink.So I added color just enough to get that baby pink look. I baked 4 batches but the recipe below is for a single batch.Thanks Deb & Lori for sharing.
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Ingredients
For the Strawberry Cupcakes [Makes about 18 cupcakes]
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 1/2 cups white granulated sugar
- 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1.5 sticks unsalted butter[ at room temperature]
- 3/4 cup pureed strawberries [frozen/fresh]
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1-2 drops of red/pink food color depending on how pink you want your cupcakes
- 2.5 cups confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2-3 tbsp of milk or as required to thin out the frosting.
- Preheat oven to 350 F.Line your cupcakes pan with cases or grease thoroughly.
- I like to strain out the pureed strawberries through a sieve once.You can skip this step if you do not want to.
- In a medium bowl sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the softened butter with the pureed strawberry until mixed.
- Add the flour mix to the butter mix and blend until fluffy.The batter will be thick
- In another bowl,beat egg whites, milk, vanilla extract and food color until light and fluffy.
- Fold in the whisked egg whites into the batter, divided.Keep mixing gently until whole of it is incorporated.D
- Using your cookie/ice-cream scoop, fill the cupcake pan about 3/4 full.
- Bake 18 – 22 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.Mine took 20 minutes.
- Transfer the cupcakes to the rack for cooling.Let cool completely before frosting [recipe below]
OOO, these look SO good. The frosting looks so luscious…
And I love the photographs…seriously, your photography is getting better and better by the post. Amazing…
Congratulations on 100th post Tanvi! What a great recipe to celebrate it. Your pictures are all awesome! I’m glad to find your website and enjoy every post Tanvi. Keep it going and I can’t wait to see your 1 year anniversary post. Haha.
WOW this looks sooooo rich and decadent!!! delicious combo!
Congratulations Tanvi. 100 posts is quite a feat. Maay there be many more. I’m so glad you decided to continue with blogging and that I stumbled across your blog. The cupcakes look moist and airy. Might have to try this version for M as she continues her love affair with strawberries.
OMG Tanvi!!! These cup cakes look divine. Loved the frosting as well!! Just perfect for the easter dessert
Lovely cup cakes.. love it..
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Love the recipe ! will def. try it ! Trying to think of a good mango dish ! maybe will try mango cake cuz its the alphonso season in the UAE
Wow I never would have guessed you posted 100 times, it seems like 1000 with how awesome the content is!! The sour cream frosting sounds so perfect for the cupcakes!!!
congrats on your 100th post. I didn’t count mine either, strawberry cupcakes looks awesome.
YAY 100th post in 9th months is awsm
Go gurl.. keep rocking !! These cup cakes looks super super yummy and so neat . perfectly baked!
This is such a big accomplishment and in so little time, I can’t believe it hasn’t even been a year! Congratulations.
Tanvi, first, congratulations on your 100th post, and second…I am glad that you kept going on…I enjoy visiting you every week. And this strawberry cupcake with chocolate frosting is one of the reason that I enjoy visiting you site…always great recipes and awesome pictures. Hope you have a great week ahead
These are just delightful. They look beautiful and I’m sure they are delicious. Congratulations on the 100th post. It is a blogging milestone. I plan to be here for post 1000. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
Congrats on your100th Post dear. Loved the cup cakes. They look awesome. At this rate you can easily surpass 1000th delicious posts in a short span.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
That’s a milestone in some record time! Don’t ever ask me – I’m so so so so slow. Happy 100th post sweetheart. Those cupcakes look so lovely – I wish you could send some over! Specially the sour cream chocolate frosting – YUM!
These are so lovely. The presentation is gorgeous.
Congrats on ur 100th post, u rock gal…look at those cute looking cupcakes,simply irresistible..
These sound so good! What a lovely recipe! I’ll bet tastes as good as it looks..simply love the frosting..
Congrats on your 100th post..wish you many many more..keep blogging..
I LOVE THOSE CUPCAKES! They really look wonderful and I am torn between looking at them or eating them! Great job
Congrats on your 100th post.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and the kind words
your cupcakes are so pretty! i want one! and wooohoooooooo for 100 posts- way to go! looking forward to many many more post from you.
Oh baby pretty pretty and pretty! with pink i can’t get out ur page can keep gazing for next couple of hours
Super yum, what a beautiful color
Those cupcakes look so perfect, I love strawberries! Congratulations on your milestone and here’s to many more delicious posts to come!
Tanvi! What an ode to Spring! The shapes, the colours, the artful design and placement of everything is absolutely beautiful. The light centre of the sliced berry matches the pink of the cake and the red papers with the red berries and the pointy tipped icing mirroring the pointy tipped berries – then the napkins. I am in awe! Clearly, I have missed so so so so much being “away”…I am truly, honestly, so sorry and so sad that I have missed reading your posts over the last two months. I would see them come into my e-mail, and delete them – with a heavy heart, daily. I didn’t at first, but it became apparent I could never catch up. I am thrilled to be participating in the planning of an important local slow food conference in our area which has taken up way more time than I ever imagined it would. Important work, but I really miss the relationships I have developed through blogging and know there will be a hole from what I have missed these past two months. I have published only three posts since February, so I am eager to cook, entertain, read, and write. Happy Easter and Spring to you and your wonderful clearly extremely fortunate (already knew that family!
Valerie
Congratulations on your 100th post! How exciting. The strawberry cupcakes look so moist and fluffy. The chocolate frosting looks amazingly rich and decadent. I have no doubt they will be a favorite around here once I bake them up. Thank you!
Gorgeous! They look really great. I wanna try this and feed my husband who just doesn’t like strawberries (can u believe that?)…let me see if he can say no to this!
And congratulations on your 100th post! May you have many more
Thanks you so much everyone for the wishes! I m so glad that each one of you stopped by!
Tanvi, I love your blog – I love the recipes & the way you weave the stories of your family into each post. 100 posts is a milestone for sure. Strawberry cupcakes are always a winner, your look & sound delicious
Congratulations for your 100th post
These cupcakes are the most beautiful I have seen in a long time: I love everything: the lovely pink colour, strawberries and OMG, the choco topping!!
That’s what i call, pure indulgence….looks drool worthy…love to lick that frosting before digging into moist cup cake…love the color and flavour too….Congrats on milestone post….keep rocking…
Congratulations, Tanvi! I only recently discovered your blog, but I am totally hooked. Your beautiful photos always me make drool over your food, as do your recipes. I hope you have banned all thoughts of discontinuing your blog from your mind for good! Oh, and I wish I could have been at that block party, because these cupcakes look phenomenal.
Oh what a lovely post. Congratulations on your 100th post! It is a great community here, isn’t it? I am glad to be following your blog, you have great recipes and great stories. To Many 100ths!
Love, ilke
These look like the perfect little treat! Congrats on the 100th post, hope there are many more to come
I am SO glad you decided to keep blogging because I always love coming here and seeing what beautiful food you’ve created! These cupcakes look delicious…certainly the perfect way to celebrate!
And I’m so excited, I just posted a mango-infused dessert so I can enter the smackdown! yay!
oh these look scrumptious
Congrats on your 100th! As always, pictures are GREAT and so drool worthy. I really want to try this but make the cupcakes mini for a party I am going to host in few weeks.
congrats girlie…u are def one of the good photographers ive come across…may u have many more awesome milestones and i must say the cakes have come out beautifully and the frosting even yummier..slurrrp
These are some delightful pictures as always. I can visit your blog just to look at the pictures! Everything looks so mindblowingly exotic and yet you make it sound all so simple!
I saw your photo on foodgawker and wanted to say congrats on the 100 posts!! These cupcakes are a sinfully delicious way to celebrate, what a wonderful idea to combine the strawberry cupcake with the chocolate frosting, who doesn’t like chocolate dipped strawberries?? Congrats again on your 100. Your photos are simply beautiful!
Happy 100th! Wow and only 9 months…you are an expert already,
These cupcakes are so pretty, just lovely!
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Hi Tanvi, Congratulations for ur 100th post. A lovely way to celebrate the event full day with these gorgeous strawbery cupcakes. This is looking absolutely delightful. Have a great day …Regards, Sonia !!!
Yay! Congrats on hitting 100! I’m glad you kept the blog going, you’d be sorely missed! These cupcakes look so good. Oh how I love strawberry season because we’re blessed with beautiful creations such as this one!
100th post! wow! congrats! And the cupcakes are so pretty!
Happy 100th post! That’s quite a milestone. Those beautiful cupcakes are the perfect way to mark the special occasion!
lovely cupcakes and congrats on having such a great blog
Congrats – your cupcakes look just beautiful!
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Thanks everyone for stopping by.
Your pics are great. We’d love for you to post your pics/recipes at dishfolio.com!
Wow! How gorgeous are those.
I love chocolate and strawberries and I can’t believe I never thought of making cupcakes like this. It won’t last long though…I’m sure these will be coming out of my oven this weekend!
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Oh Tanvi
. I have this huge smile on my face because you know I adore your cupcakes and these strawberry cupcakes look divine. I sooooo want sweets now. See what you did lol. Enjoy the movies this weekend girl.
This recipe has me thinking about all the fun girly things I could be doing while eating these! Watching Marie Antoinette, perhaps?
Thank you so much for this recipe, they taste amazing… Sadly however mine cracked on top… These were my very first batch of cupcakes, and although I have advanced skills in the kitchen, I am very amateur when it comes to baking
Please, are there any tips you can give me that will ensure that my cupcakes are smooth on top like yours are in your photos??? I made them for my 4 year olds ‘fairy themed’ birthday party and I wanted to make something other than a boring cake! But i’m a bit of a perfectionist and they haven’t turned out as pretty as yours. What is your secret?? Please help??? Sarah from New Zealand <3 XX
Hi Sarah,
Thats sad that the batch you baked for your son’s party cracked.Frankly, I have never faced that sort of a problem of tops cracking up.Normally,it is when the cupcake rises too fast while baking and is unable to support itself on the sides of the pan.Did you use foil liners or greased the pan instead of using liners? Both foil and the metal pan heat up quickly leading to fast baking on the outer sides.Second reason could be that there were pieces in the puree that you made?.Sometimes overmixing/beating the batter could lead to batter being too wet and not able to hold shape.I also suggest next time you try to bake with a lower temp like 325F.You will agree that each one of us had different oven settings,it might be a case that your oven was too hot.
Thank you so much again.
Thank you for trying out.Arent they tasty?
I hope this helps.I have tried my best to think of possible reasons.I m no expert in baking either
Hey congrats on your 100th post!!! Looking fwd to many more to come! I’ve also recently reached the 100 mark (altho only noticed it when i reached 101th post lol). this strawberry + choc is quite a combo but i never imagined it in cupcake form! this is pretty awesome and i love the cross section photo!!
Thanks Tanvi…
I think my oven was too hot, i’m going to make another batch in the morning and put it on a lower heat… We use celsius ovens in NZ, I did do the conversion but obv my fan forced oven was too hot.. They taste great however the icing I made was far too runny so I made a buttercream instead
Thanks for answering my question 
Ihave bookmarked your blog so will def be back for more.. Take care 
Congrats on your 100th post! I’m fairly new to the food blogging world, but it is so much fun, I look forward to my 100th post! These cupcakes look so awesome, and the pictures are lovely! I’m becoming addicted to baking cupcakes, and love all the wonderful variations I’m finding online!
The cupcakes are absolutely gorgeous little cupcakes! I made these for my family and they turned out as good as yours. Very delicious indeed!! Great recipe and congrats on your 100th post!!!! Those beautiful cupcakes are the best, absolutely pure indulgence!!
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I’m wondering how well the frosting keeps its shape, does it get a little runny if not refrigerated? I just need to make some cupcakes and take them somewhere where they will just be sitting at room temperature for 3-4 hours. Will the frosting start melting? Thank you!
Hi Trimble,
This frosting does get runny after about 1 hour so I would not recommend keeping the cupcakes unrefrigerated.
Thanks
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