Angel Food Cupcakes with Whipped Buttercream and Berries
Light as air, these angel food cupcakes shine with a simple whipped vanilla buttercream and fresh summer berries.
I’m just returning from a weekend of fun and (over) eating in Portland at the first annual Indulge food blogger conference (more on that later, for now check out my instagram feed). There were doughnuts, ice cream, huge piles of french fries, and more doughnuts.
So naturally I’m ready to eat a lot of veggies, and I’m going to try really hard to not think about doughnuts.
Okay, so I’m definitely craving healthy meals and snacks, but let’s be real. I’m 6 months pregnant and my sweet tooth is crazy anyway, so staying away from sweets is probably not going to happen.
Thank goodness for desserts that give you a lot of bang for your buck. Sure, it’s not a salad, but these angel food cupcakes are about as healthy as I’m going to get with a cupcake. They’re light and airy, and absolutely delightful topped with a whipped vanilla buttercream and berries.
They’re perfect for days when you want to get your sweet fix while not completely ruining your swimsuit-ready diet, and these cupcakes also make a great presentation at a summer dinner party or barbecue.
baking tip:How to fold ingredients
“Folding” is a method of combining ingredients without knocking the air out of the mixture, such as the folding of dry ingredients into whipped egg whites for these angel food cupcakes. Here’s how it’s done:
- Use a rubber spatula and make sure your bowl is big enough.
- Using the spatula, cut through the egg whites at 90 degree angle to the bottom of the bowl.
- Scoop the egg whites and fold it on top of itself, incorporating the dry ingredients.
- Rotate bowl a quarter turn and repeat only just until no streaks of dry ingredients remain. Do not over mix.
Angel Food Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the cupcakes:
- ½ cup powdered sugar (112 grams)
- ⅔ cup cake flour (56 grams)
- 1 cup egg whites (250 ml, about 8 large eggs)
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Whipped Buttercream:
- 2 cups powdered sugar , sifted (450 grams)
- ½ cup unsalted butter , at room temperature (113 grams)
- ¼ cup heavy whipping cream (60 ml)
- Pinch of salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Fresh berries such as strawberries, blueberries and raspberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with paper liners or lightly grease with butter.
- Sift together the powdered sugar and cake flour 3 times. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, or in a bowl with a hand-held mixer, beat the egg whites, cream of tartar and salt on medium high speed until foamy. Increase the speed to high and slowly add the granulated sugar 1 tablespoon at a time with the mixer running. Beat until glossy and soft peaks form. Stir in the vanilla.
- In 3 additions, sift the dry ingredients over the meringue and gently fold in after each addition. Do not overmix or meringue will deflate.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pan, filling the cups all the way to the top. Bake until golden and spring back when touched, about 18 minutes. Let cupcakes cool completely.
- To make the frosting, either in a stand mixer or with a hand-held mixer, beat the powdered sugar and butter together until smooth. Add the whipping cream, salt and vanilla and beat on high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Frost cupcakes with buttercream and top with berries.
Nutrition
Disclaimer: This recipe was developed in partnership with Go Bold With Butter. All opinions are my own, as always. Thank you for supporting partnerships with brands I love and believe in, which make Completely Delicious possible.
25 Comments on “Angel Food Cupcakes with Whipped Buttercream and Berries”
Beautiful cupcakes! Your tips are always so helpful. Chocolate buttercream so delicious too with angel food cake and berries. Thank you!
These cupcakes are gorgeous and certainly much healthier than the average cupcake 🙂
These look so fresh and delicious! Love this!
SO MANY DONUTS! But I have no regrets. Ha! Great seeing you again. Wish we could have had more time. We were just so busy! These cupcakes are amazing! I’m thinking they are going right on my 4th of July menu!
These cupcakes are lovely! Angel Food is an all time favorite.
Yum!! These sound so light and tasty. I bet they taste amazing with the fresh berries! 🙂
These cupcakes are so ridiculously pretty! (Also – you’re totally allowed to still think about doughnuts because it’s almost national donut day!) I’m so glad I got to see you again this weekend – it was fun catching up, even if the weekend did go by too quickly.
So fun to see you too! Hopefully our paths will cross again before too long. Thanks Sara! 🙂
So pretty! Angel food cake is always such a fun sweet, especially in cupcake form!
Ohhh what a weekend in Portland, and what a gorgeous cupcake!! I missed you girls so much, but I have enjoyed watching the adventures!
Soooo Yummy cakes…. I am a die-hard fan of cup cakes… would love to have if I get these in my plate… :p
These cupcakes made me sick. They taste like sugary eggs.
I know this recipe is from 2015, but made a trial batch of cupcakes today because I wanted to make these for my daughter’s 1st birthday and was so disappointed. The cupcakes look amazing but taste so much like eggs. They do not taste like cupcakes at all. I followed the recipe to a T and am not sure what went wrong. Will be trying another recipe for her birthday.
This recipe is no good. Please do not attempt these. I made the cupcakesoand the buttercream and I was severely disappointed. I previously made an angel food cake at turned out amazing, but tried this recipe for cupcakes. They tasted like egg. 0/10. The buttercream isn’t even good.
the cup cakes are make me hungry i want to try this recipe once.
Being a Foodie I Love to have new dishes, and when I see any new recipe, I Defiantly try that on weekend. Now I will make the same on weekend. However, thanks for sharing the same.
How does turn out if you make a cake instead???
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wow..so yummy. I definitely going to try this recipe. Looking for more tasty recipes
wow..so yummy. I definitely going to try this recipe. Looking for more tasty recipes
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Great post, thanks for the information.
I Defiantly try that on weekend. Now I will make the same on weekend. However, thanks for sharing the same.
thank you so much for this article
lovely recipe, I really like this.
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