Strawberry Cup Cakes

Ingredients

200 gm maida

150 gm sugar

2 tbsp butter

100 gms plain curd

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup crushed fresh strawberries 

For the Icing

250 ml of fresh cream(chilled for atleast 3 hours before whipping)

2 tbsp of icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

For decoration

Fresh Strawberries

chocolate chips

Method

Sift the maida and baking powder. Grind the sugar in a mixer.

• Now cream the butter and curd and blend in the mixture again to obtain a very smooth batter.
  
• Remove this batter into a mixing bowl. Add the crushed fresh strawberry  and blend well.
  
• Slowly mix in the maida a little at a time so that the maida blends well into the batter
• Grease a cup cake mould and put a spoonful of cake batter in each mould and Bake it in a preheated oven at 180 C for 10-15 minutes or till done 
• Cool it on a wire rack and then keep it aside

To prepare the icing

• Whip the cream till it doubles in volume and forms soft peaks. Mix in the icing sugar and vanilla essence.
  
• With a help of a piping bag make the icing on the cake
• Decorate with pieces of strawberries and chocolate chip around the cake and then serve