Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 170 C.
2. Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and butter in a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment and beat on slow speed until you get a sandy consistency and everything is combined.
3. Pour in the milk and vanilla extract and beat on medium speed until all the ingredients are well mixed. Add the egg and beat well for a few minutes to ensure the ingredients are well incorporated.
4. Divide the chopped strawberries between the paper cases so that the base of each case is covered. Spoon the cupcake mixture on top until two thirds full and bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until light golden brown and the sponge bounces back when touched.
5. Leave the cupcakes to cool slightly in the tray before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
6. Roughly break up the digestive biscuits and put them in a food processor. Process until finely ground. When the cupcakes are cold, spoon the cream cheese frosting on top and finish with a sprinkling of finely ground biscuits.

Below is a picture of me at every step in the recipe.

Below is the review for the Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes. I asked an impartial person to give me their opinions on certain aspects and an overall rating at the end.

Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake
Aesthetics:
You can tell just by looking that it has a lot of flavours from the biscuit to the cream cheese frosting to the red of the strawberries coming through at the bottom. To smell it the biscuit drowns out all other smells. The fruit has made the bottom of the case soggy however and it is difficult to pick up.

Taste:
Really nice combination, its kind of like an upside down cheesecake because of the biscuit on top and the strawberries at the bottom. The fruit tastes very fresh and therefore the palette is not swamped by sponge. The cream cheese is a lot more subtle than previous icings that have been majorly sugary. It holds together really well considering there are so mnay aspects to it. Not repetitive because of the many different flavours, it did not get boring or samey at all!

Additional Comments:
Eat it with a spoon because otherwise it will be difficult to pick up with the fruit at the bottom. And make sure to get a bit of everything on the spoon top get the full effect.

Rating:
9/10

Below is a picture of the final cakes.