Weekend Recap: Mother's Day Lunch

5/12/2014

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I had such a fun weekend celebrating Mother's Day with my mom and grandma this past weekend. I threw together a fabulous lunch, created a colorful bouquet of flowers, and tried out a recipe for strawberry cupcakes that I ran across on Pinterest for dessert. We all had such a great time together on Sunday and I cannot wait until the next time we are all together to celebrate. Here are some great pictures from our Mother's Day celebration as well as the delicious cupcake recipe I made. 

A big thanks to WholeFoods for always having beautiful bunches of flowers to choose from. I could not have put together this Mother's Day bouquet without them!
A beautiful picture of my mom and grandma on Mother's Day! So happy I was able to celebrate with you two!
And while my cupcakes didn't look exactly like the ones from blogger Life, Love and Sugar, they were just as delicious (I promise!). Big thanks to my dad for the final touch with the strawberry slice on top!
Here is how you can make your own Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes complements of Life, Love & Sugar. The homemade strawberry frosting was beyond addictive! I may or may not have had some just by itself.
Cupcake Ingredients
  • 1 2/3 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 cup butter, room temperature
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1/4 + 1/8 cup milk
  • 3/4 cup chopped strawberries
Icing Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup salted butter
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 6 tbsp strawberry puree
  • 1 tbsp water or milk (only if needed)

Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda and baking power in a large mixing bowl.
  3. Add butter, eggs, vanilla, sour cream and milk and beat on medium speed until smooth.
  4. Fold in the strawberries.
  5. Fill cupcakes liners a touch more than half way.
  6. Bake for 18-20 minutes.
  7. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes, then remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
  8. While cupcakes cool, make the icing. Beat together butter and shortening until smooth.
  9. Slowly add 3 cups of powdered sugar. Mix until combined.
  10. Mix in the strawberry puree.
  11. Add the rest of the powdered sugar and mix until smooth. If you need to add water or milk until icing is desired consistency.
  12. Once cupcakes are cool, pipe on the icing.
**This recipe makes about 24 cupcakes. I halved the recipe and only made 12 for Mother's Day.

I had so much fun celebrating Mother's Day this past weekend! What did you do with your mom?

xoxo
Megan

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