The cupcakes and icing look great! But I need to ask if there is a recipe for a good tasting frosting made with strawberries? My daughter wants a white or yellow cake, with real strawberry frosting, not just pink colored or with artificial flavoring. She had a cake w/frosting like that several years ago, and loved it. I've been googling for the past few days to find a recipe for such a frosting, but can't be sure any of the ones I've seen are any good. I trust the recipes here, and was hoping the bakers might have a recipe to share? I'll ask around the kitchen, Mares - but I'd think you could make this icing, and stir seedless strawberry jam into it? PJH Susan Reid, my fellow blogger, offers this advice: "You might be able to hydrate some strawberry jello and beat it into whipped cream, like you're making a stabilized whipped cream." And our test kitchen director, Sue Gray, says this: "I have added small amounts of fruit puree to buttercream, but don't have a "formal" recipe written."

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