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Obsessed with Nadiya Bakes? These are her famous Easy Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes with a surprise Oreo bottom and strawberry ice cream frosting!

I’m obsessed with Nadiya Hussain’s Netflix shows. I’m a baker by nature, and she’s got some of the best ways to make complex recipe truly approachable and adaptable to everyone no matter their skill level. Her strawberry shortcake cupcakes are adorable, and I wanted to recreate them myself. But being in the States meant that I had to make a few substitutions for what is commonly available here, and a few adaptations to make these truly easy strawberry shortcake cupcakes!

Who doesn’t love a good cupcake? I found a few simple tricks to make these, doing the hard part for you, converting everything from metrics to US standard measurements, and finding easy substitutions so nothing gets between you and these adorable easy strawberry shortcake cupcakes.

Easy Substitutions

In the States, clotted cream isn’t readily available. Bummer! There are two ways to quickly substitute clotted cream in your recipes. I used creme fraiche for a clotted cream substitute. The other is simple and always easy to find sour cream. You could use yogurt. The thick dairy creams create a mildly acidic environment for your baking powder to help activate, and tenderize the cupcakes. Three easy ways to substitute clotted cream in the United States.

The other easy substitute for self raising flour is to make your own! Most of us don’t just have lots of variety of flours laying around in our cupboards. But we do have all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. You can make your own self raising flour in a snap with these three ingredients.

Make Your Own Clotted Cream

I have been wanting to make my own clotted cream for ages, because I don’t want to pay $9 for the small jar! You can make your own with this recipe, and step by step photos from All Recipes.

Make Your Own Self Rising Flour

Self rising flour is more standard in the UK, and yes you can find it here, but since most kitchens don’t need to keep it on hand for regular use, you can make your own! 

The other easy substitute for self raising flour is to make your own! Most of us don’t just have lots of variety of flours laying around in our cupboards. But we do have all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. You can make your own self raising flour in a snap with these three ingredients.

• 1 cup of All Purpose Flour
• 1 1/2 tsp BakingPowder
• 1/4 tsp Salt

This proportion can be used at scale to make your own cup for cup self rising flour for cakes and perfect biscuits. Whisk it together in a large bowl and bake!

How To Make Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes

This recipe comes in two parts, the vanilla cupcake batter with an Oreo base, then the strawberry ice cream frosting. It’s simply divine! 

For the Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes you’ll need;

• 1 Package Golden Oreo Cookies
• 12 Medium Fresh Strawberries, stemmed and hulled
• 1/2 cup Creme Fraiche *or clotted cream if you have that
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract (Vanilla Bean Paste is excellent here!)
• 1 cup Flour *or use 1 cup self-rising flour, and omit the additional bakingpowder and salt listed below.*
• 1 1/2 tsp BakingPowder
• 1/4 tsp Salt

Strawberry Ice Cream Frosting

This frosting makes me want to use more ice creams as a cream base in the future!

• 12 Tbsp Unsalted Butter, softened
• 3 cups Powdered Sugar
• 1/2 –2/3 cup melted Strawberry Ice Cream
• Pinch of Salt
• 1/4 cup Freeze Dried Strawberries

Baking The Strawberry Cupcakes

The one surprise in this recipe is the first bite of the cupcake when you find out there is a fresh strawberry inside! To do this, you’ll want to use a paring knife, or small sharp knife, and cut off the top stem of each strawberry to make a flat top. 

Into each cupcake liner, you’ll place one Golden Oreo into the bottom. Then place the inverted strawberry on top of the Oreo. 

Top each with the vanilla cupcake batter mixture nearly covering the strawberries. Bake for about 15 minutes and remove to cool completely. 

Once cooled completely you can use the strawberry ice cream frosting to pipe on top of each cupcake. To create an extra pop of strawberry flavor, you can crush freeze dried strawberries on top of the frosting. Freeze dried strawberries and fruits can be found in the natural section of a grocery stores, or near the nuts.

Easy Recipe Conversions

One thing that always scares people out of baking is that it’s confusing. You can find recipes in metric, or imperial. But how do you convert them? Below I have converted Nadiya’s recipe for these easy strawberry shortcake cupcakes from metric to imperial for those in the US! In baking, weighing your ingredients really does produce amazing results, but let’s be honest, we just don’t operate that way and no one wants to spend their time converting it. I did it for you!

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