Will they Survive?

So the trying begins...

Cupcakes ready to be shipped!

I have spent my free evening baking beautiful strawberry cupcakes to send to my beautiful sister is Texas.  I just hope they survive!! I am sending a test box, so see how the current packaging fails to get cupcakes from one place to another!  (lets also hope it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg... Not looking forward to that!

Strawberry Cupcakes
Strawberry icing
Strawberry on top

Anyway back to the more important Strawberry cupcakes! I've never baked with berries before, and wasn't sure how it would turn out!  Well they sure look pretty to me,but I do not like strawberries.  I have no way of seeing if they taste good or not!  Thankfully my roommate does like them and tested them for me.  I ended up giving in and seeing what I could taste.  Well... they aren't that flavorful, not as I had expected.  Of course strawberries are not in season and I didn't eat the strawberries in the cake, so I really am not sure if they are tasteful or not! My roommate also said they weren't that sweet, but she also licked the frosting off first, then ate the cake, so... not really how they are supposed to be eaten.  Guess the best way to find out is to, you guessed it.. take them to work!! hehe    If they survive the trip to Texas, Katie is a strawberry lover (the reason I made this kind) so maybe she can let me in!  As of now, this is a one time thing, not a huge winner as before!  


To tell you a little bit more about the cupcake.  I was a bit lazy tonight, seeing I have papers to write, and used boxed white cake.  Instead of the water and oil, I inserted the juice from frozen strawberries in the mix.  I then added the sliced strawberries to the mix.   For the frosting, I added some of the strawberry juice to a regular sugar frosting.  To finish it off I added a "fresh"(as you can get from Walmart in the off season) strawberry on top!