Homemade Strawberry Frosting

For our Valentine's day cupcakes I had everything bought, least I originally thought. But leave it to me to leave out one of the most important ingredient's when making cupcakes; the frosting! The last thing I wanted to do was make a trip to the store with the girls. I figured it couldn't be that hard to make homemade frosting on my own, and it was a piece of cake. Then I wanted it pink, but I did NOT want to use food coloring, so we decided to make strawberry frosting. It is so easy I though I'd share the recipe with you. 

Homemade Strawberry Butter Cream Frosting

(Frosts roughly 24-28 cupcakes.) (preparation time: roughly 12-15 minutes.)

Ingredients

*1 cup of butter (soft)

*3-4 cups of powdered sugar (I use 4 cups)

*1-2 Tablespoons of milk (I use 1 Tablespoon. It depends on your desired consistency.)

*1 teaspoon of vanilla

*Strawberries (Shade of pink depends how many you use.)

Preparation

1.) In a mixing bowl cream your butter. (I use my standing kitchen aid with the wire whisk, or my hand kitchen aid blender.) 

2.)Beat in the sugar and vanilla.

3.)Add your milk and keep beating until your frosting reaches your desired consistency

4.) Wash and dice your strawberries. In a separate bowl mash them till the strawberries have the consistency like soup and you see no chunks.

5.)Poor the strawberry liquid into the already beating frosting and let the strawberries mix in.

6.)Once the frosting is evenly pink, I use a lunch bag and cut a whole in the bottom corner to decorate my cupcakes.

Enjoy!