This tasty strawberry milk cupcake recipe is easy to make, unique, and fun. It’s a great recipe for strawberry milk flavored cupcakes and frosting!
The great thing about these easy to make cupcakes is that they’re super cute and flavorful. Strawberry milk cupcake recipes are excellent for sharing…or keeping all for yourself, no one could judge you for devouring these yourself.
If you’ve never made cake mix cupcakes you have to try these other easy and delicious recipes. Try out Bacon Maple Cupcakes, Hot Fudge Sundae Cupcakes, Creamsicle Cupcake Recipe, and Cake Mix Snickerdoodle Cupcakes!
There is no shortage of fun cupcakes you can make with a boxed cake mix. It’s an easy way to make a fun treat everyone will love.
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Why should I start with a boxed cake mix?
Starting with a boxed cake mix might feel like cheating or the easy way out of baking and honestly it kind of is but that’s the point!
Using a cake mix is the easiest way to do your baking because it stops you from having to drag out every single ingredient for cupcakes. You can just dump out the mix and everything you need is ready to go.
Another reason to use boxed cake mixes to make things like a strawberry milk cupcake recipe is the fact that you can spend your time decorating and enjoying the process instead of fretting over the actual process of gathering and combining ingredients.
Making strawberry milk cupcakes is easy and fun, the boxed cake mix just takes the stress out of the process. You don’t have to worry about them flopping because the mix gives you a great and reliable result every time!
Ingredients needed to make a strawberry milk cupcake recipe:
This recipe has two separate ingredients lists. You will need things to make the frosting and the cupcakes themselves. The recipe starts with a white cake mix, greek yogurt, vegetable oil, water, egg whites, Nesquik strawberry powder and pink cupcake liners.
For the frosting you will need salted butter, vanilla, pink Himalayan salt, strawberry extract, powdered sugar, milk, pink food coloring, and flamingo royal icing decorations.
You will also need a piping bag and frosting tip along with pink sanding sugar! I’m linking those items so you can buy them online if you can’t locate them in stores like Walmart, Michael’s, Party City, or Joann Fabrics!
Kitchen Essentials For Cupcake Recipes:
If you are trying to pick out some of the best supplies to stock your kitchen for cake mix recipes and baking in general, these are some of our favorites and must have items.
I like half sheet baking pans that are quality (hello no noisy pops or sloshed cookie dough from twisting), I line my cookie sheets with silicone baking mats. These are a must when doing cake mix recipes which can settle and become thin at lot easier than traditional cookie dough.
Of course mixing bowls, a mixer, spatula, and some whisks should be on your list if you don’t have ones that you love. I also like to have a set of cooling racks so that my recipes can properly cool before they’re scarfed down by my family!
For cupcakes you’ll also need cupcake pans, cupcake liners, and a mixer!
How to make strawberry milk cupcakes:
The whole process for making these strawberry milk cupcakes is fun and easy. You’ll see that they’re pretty simple and straightforward, even with a homemade frosting for the top!
Check out these step by step instructions with photos to help guide you along the way. It’s a great recipe for the whole family to enjoy together, if you have little ones who like to help in the kitchen this is a fun recipe where they can assist.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a standard muffin tin.
Steps 1-2: Add cake mix to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand or stand mixer, add in your oil, egg whites, yogurt and Nestle Nesquik Strawberry Flavored Powder and mix on medium until well incorporated. Add in your water.
Step 3: Add batter into the muffin tin until each is about 2/3 full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Steps 4-5: In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter, and beat until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla and strawberry extracts and salt.
Steps 6-7: Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding a bit of the half and half or milk in between each cup. Continue to mix for 1 minute or until creamy. Add in your pink food coloring.
Step 8: Prepare a piping bag and fill the bag with frosting.
Step 9: Frost your cupcakes, sprinkle with your pink sanding sugar, and top each cupcake with a Royal Icing Flamingo Decoration. Enjoy!
Do you want to make more cake mix recipes?
If you are looking for more cake mix recipes you could not have landed in a better spot on the web. Here’s a few of our favorite recipes made with boxed cake mixes that I think you’ll love.
There’s something for everyone and each of these recipes is simple and straightforward, no muss, no fuss. Just simple desserts that the whole family will enjoy.
Try out Apple Pie Cookies, Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies, Twix cookies, brownie batter dip, key lime cookies, chocolate cherry cookies, vanilla cake with strawberry filling, or Instant Pot Apple Spice Cake.
More options are these butter pecan cookies, banana bread with cake mix, 3 ingredient cake mix cookies, cinnamon donuts, funfetti sugar cookie truffles, Strawberry Cake Batter Dip, Firecracker Poke Cake, Layered Red White and Blue Cupcakes, Pineapple Coconut Poke Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Dump Cake, and red velvet cake mix cookies.
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Printable Strawberry Milk Cupcake Recipe:
Strawberry Milk Cupcake Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- Cupcake Ingredients:
- 1 white cake mix08B3ZB237
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 ¼ cups water
- 1/3 cup Nestle’ Nesquik Strawberry Flavored Powder
- Pink cupcake liners Get them at Walmart or on Amazon
- Frosting Ingredients
- 1 stick salted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
- 1-2 teaspoons strawberry extract depending on how strong of a strawberry flavor you want
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons half and half or whole milk
- Pink food coloring
- 1 large piping bag 1 large round frosting tip
- Wilton Flamingo Royal Icing Decorations 8-Count (I get mine at Walmart or Amazon, but you can get them at Michael’s Party City and Joann Fabrics as well)
- Pink Sanding Sugar
Instructions
- Directions for Cupcakes:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a standard muffin tin.
Steps 1-2: Add cake mix to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand or stand mixer, add in your oil, egg whites, yogurt and Nestle Nesquik Strawberry Flavored Powder and mix on medium until well incorporated. Add in your water.
Step 3: Add batter into the muffin tin until each is about 2/3 full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Directions for Frosting:
Steps 4-5: In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter, and beat until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla and strawberry extracts and salt.
Steps 6-7: Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding a bit of the half and half or milk in between each cup. Continue to mix for 1 minute or until creamy. Add in your pink food coloring.
Step 8: Prepare a piping bag and fill the bag with frosting.
Step 9: Frost your cupcakes, sprinkle with your pink sanding sugar, and top each cupcake with a Royal Icing Flamingo Decoration. Enjoy!
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Allyssa
Friday 5th of November 2021
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It's really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
Glenda
Thursday 4th of November 2021
So crazy cute! I like that there is no extra food coloring needed for the cupcakes with the color from the strawberry milk and extract. So delicious!
Glenda
Thursday 4th of November 2021
So cute! And I like that the strawberry milk powder and strawberry extract make them pink without needing food coloring in the cupcakes. Yum! Would definitely be a hit with my grandkids!
laura
Thursday 4th of November 2021
Oh this is a fun recipe for cupcakes!