Who's Your Mama Neapolitan Baby Cakes? Recipe

• Ingredients for Vanilla Cupcakes:
• Makes 12
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• Ingredients for Chocolate Cupcakes:
• Makes 12
• Follow instructions for Vanilla Cupcakes below, but reduce flour to 1 1/4 cups, and add 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder. Whisk into dry ingredients.
• Ingredients for Strawberry Buttercream:
• Adapted from 125 Best Cupcake Recipes by Julie Hasson
• Makes enough to frost about 16 cupcakes
• 2 cups confectioner's sugar
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup strawberry puree
• 1/2 teaspoon strawberry extract
• Pinch of Salt
• 8-12 fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced, for decoration
• Note: This only made enough to frost about 2/3 of my 2 dozen cupcakes. I had to make a batch and a half to frost them all.

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