Ultimate Strawberry Cheesecake Pudding Filled Cupcakes
These festive and fluffy strawberry cupcakes are filled with an easy creamy cheesecake pudding and crowned with a fresh strawberry cream cheese frosting that is the ultimate treat! Everyone will go bonkers over them, because who doesn’t love strawberries and cheesecake flavors together!
Servings: 24 Servings
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Ingredients
Strawberry Cupcakes:
- 1 package Pillsbury™ Moist Supreme® Strawberry Flavored Premium Cake Mix plus ingredients (1 cup water, 1/4 cup vegetable oil and 3 large eggs)
Cheesecake Pudding:
- 1 3.4 oz Vanilla Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- ½ cup almond milk or milk of choice
- 1 ½ cups whipped cream or freshly whipping cream whipped
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 10-12 Strawberries pureed in blender or food processor
- ½ cup unsalted butter very softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese very softened
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon strawberry extract could be used
Instructions
Strawberry Cupcakes:
- Use your favorite strawberry cake mix to make your cupcakes. We used Pillsbury™ Moist Supreme® Strawberry Flavored Premium Cake Mix.
- Bake the cupcakes as instructed on box instructions and then let them cool. Once cooled, use an apple corer or use a sharp knife to cut out circle in the middle of the cupcakes and scoop out any extra cake so you can fill them with the filling.
Cheesecake Pudding Filling:
- While the cupcakes are cooling, you can make the cheesecake filling. Using a mixer, mix together the softened cream cheese. In another bowl, mix together the almond milk and instant pudding mix together and add it to the cream cheese and mix until very smooth. Add in 1 & 1/2 cups whipped cream (we made fresh but for a shortcut, use Cool Whip if preferred) and whip it all together. Pipe the pudding into the middle of each of the cupcakes.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Use 10-12 fresh large strawberries and puree them in a blender or food processer. Place the pureed strawberries in a microwavable container and nuke them on high for 4 1/2 minutes. Stir them 1-2 times while they are cooking while the mixture thickens up and condenses down. Place mixture in freezer or fridge to cool mixture off.
- Using a mixer, whip 1/2 cup softened unsalted butter and 8 ounces of softened cream cheese until fluffy and creamy. Add 1/2 of the confectioners’ sugar and mix on medium until mixed well. Add pureed strawberries, vanilla, salt and beat together. Add remainder of powdered sugar until icing is desired consistency.
- Pipe on the icing. And DEVOUR!
- Place cupcakes in fridge until ready to serve. We recommend you let them sit out 30 minutes to come to room temperature. Enjoy!
Notes
For a frosting shortcut, you can of course buy 2 tubs of vanilla frosting and and 8 ounces of softened cream cheese and whip them together. Add some pureed strawberries to give them a fresh looking strawberry cream cheese frosting. Could also use 2 tubs of strawberry frosting to replace the vanilla frosting if you wish.