These patriotic little Fourth Of July cupcakes are hiding a surprise inside…
They’re secretly stuffed with blueberries and Healthy Whipped Cream!
One morning last week, my roommate came downstairs, gave me a funny look, and said, “Katie, why are you making patriotic cupcakes in June?”
Sometimes, in order to get holiday recipe posts written and published in time, I do odd things—like make Santa cookies in September or pumpkin bread in July. No one (except maybe me) wants to see a recipe for chocolate bunnies the day after Easter.
The Fourth Of July cupcakes may look ordinary from the outside…
But just one bite, and you’re surprised with even more fresh berries hiding inside.
One can never have too many fresh blueberries!
These breakfast cupcakes are based on my go-to vanilla recipe. I love variation recipes, as you’re already certain, before starting out, that the recipe won’t fail. If you have a tried-and-true recipe, why completely reinvent the wheel, right?
Sometimes it’s just fun to see a new twist:
Happy Fourth Of July Cupcakes
(makes 9-10 cupcakes)
- 1 cup spelt flour, or white flour, or Arrowhead Mills gf (140g)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp ground flax OR 2 tsp ener g powder
- 4 tbsp sugar of choice or xylitol (54g)
- pinch stevia OR 2 additional tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt of choice (Silk or SoDelicious both work) (230g)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice (60g)
- 3 tbsp oil (can omit, but the cupcakes will be gummy) (36g)
- fresh blueberries and sliced strawberries or jam
- cream of choice, such as Soyatoo or the homemade whip cream recipe linked under the first photo of this post
Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease muffin tins. Combine all dry ingredients (except berries) in a bowl, and mix very well. In a separate bowl, combine all wet ingredients (except cream) and stir. Pour wet into dry, and mix until just combined (don’t overmix). Cook 18-20 minutes, then let sit at least 10 before removing from muffin tins. Cut out holes with a knife, and stuff fresh berries (or jam) into the holes. Then you can either squish the tops back on or discard them (by way of your mouth!). Just before serving, top with the cream and more fresh berries.
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Did you like playing hide-and-seek as a kid?
I was really good at hiding. But the game can be terribly boring (not to mention painful!) when you’re a good hider. You’re stuck waiting for someone to rescue you out of whatever kitchen cabinet or tiny closet space you’ve squished into. So I always preferred being the seeker, which made everyone happy because no one else ever seemed to want that job.
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Oh gosh those look so good! And I really need a calendar that tells me all the food holidays! I should have had blueberry pancakes for breakfast!
Oh yummy, love the idea of putting fruit in baked goods, let alone fresh fruit, great recipe idea!
You’re always so on it with the themed posts! I am terrible at thinking up foods that match themes. I couldn’t think of anything red and white to post for Canada Day (and my birthday!) this Sunday…so if you throw blue in there too I think my head would explode lol. These look fab 🙂
those are such a good idea! I’m so impressed that you’re making a cookbook AND coming up with even more recipes for your blog!
There is not much better than a cupcake for breakfast! I will have to try this.
Loved hide & seek….still do! :o) I definitely preferred to hide than seek. I felt lonely being the seeker. I recently tried your blueberry pie pancakes, and they were scrumptious! Should’ve made them this morning…had I known what day it is.
I just played a TON of hide and seek this past weekend, while my nieces were in town. It’s so funny how bad little kids are at hiding, though! The 4 year old just cannot stand still haha!
How cute are these?! And so festive for the 4th!! Love this! 🙂
These look scrumptious! I’m in charge of the food for a fairy-butterfly themed hen-do-tea-party, and these look perfect!
I used to LOVE playing hide and seek! At college, we had a trip to madrid, and all decided to play hide-n-seek on the floor we were staying on.. I won, as I’d hidden in a place no-one had thought to look.. – A washing machine! Being short comes in handy when squishing into tiny hiding places!
Yikes, that sounds like a really (really!) great hiding spot… But not too comfortable! 😉
Love sneaky recipes like this, especially when they involve sneaky berries!
It is the worst having to wait an entire year to post a seasonal, holiday, or event-themed entry.
These are so adorable, katie! they would be a perfect fresh, summer treat for the 4th!
These cupcakes look like a perfect reason for me to get up early in the morning and use up my fresh blueberries.
These cupcakes look like a perfect reason for me to get up early in the morning and use up my fresh blueberries. As for hid n seek I loved being the seeker cause it was always fun trying to find where my cousins would hid themselves.
I’d like to try these for some 4th of July BBQs I have coming up, and also just to have to eat on the way to work in the morning – I get bored with PB & Whole wheat English muffins. However – living in Iowa, it can be hard to get fresh fruit like berries at a decent price (we’ve got tons of corn at good prices, though). So I may try it with flash frozen berries. I know those tend to weep a lot, but it’s all good.
Cupcakes for breakfast? Umm, yes please.
This is dorky, but growing up we always liked to play “Sardines”, which is like reverse hide-n-seek – one person hides and everyone looks and hides with the person when they find them. This game got intense though – it messed with your head! People would start to disappear when they found the person until you were all alone…not gonna lie, I would happily still play it now at age 22. It took strategy!
I LOVED Sardines…totally forgot about that game.
When I was a pre-teen, my church youth group used to play a game called Man Hunt. It was like hide and seek combined with tag with teams. We played in the church yard…at night. Each team would dedicate a person to hide and the other team would have to find them in enemy territory…and I think some sort of tag game was also involved. Don’t remember the details but I remember having a BLAST playing it.
These looks amazing! We are going to a potlock on the 4th of July and these look like they would be perfect to bring.