Strawberry Shortcake Shells

Today was Easter Sunday! Easter is my very favorite holiday. For one thing, I was born on Easter. Second, I love the reason for Easter. What is more worthy of celebration than the Resurrection of the Savior? Third, it means the beginning of Spring and I love Spring. Fourth, I love the food of Easter. The ham, the chocolate, the potatoes. Mmmm. Just the best.

Well, I had the opportunity to make my very first Easter dinner this year! Everything went fairly well, except for the dessert. I had planned on serving pretzel jello salad, buuuuut I got impatient and added the jello to the pan too soon. Consequently, I ended up with soggy pretzel jello mush instead. I had to come up with a new dessert fast. I had strawberries. I had cool whip. Strawberry shortcakes!! The only thing I needed was the cake shell. I found and adapted this recipe and crossed my fingers. Luckily, it turned out great! The cakes were spongy, but sturdy. Sweet, but not too sweet. Just perfect for strawberry shortcakes.

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Ingredients:
- 2 Whole Eggs
- 2 Egg Whites
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Pinch Salt
- 1 TB Butter
- 1/2 Cup Milk

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour your cupcake pan.*
2. Combine flour, salt, and baking powder in a small bowl. Whisk or sift to remove any lumps.
3. In a larger bowl, beat eggs for about 4 minutes with an electric mixer on high. Add sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture and combine.
4. In a small sauce pan, bring the milk and butter to a boil. Add to the batter and beat until combined.
5. Pour batter into prepared cupcake pans. Fill each cupcake about 2/3 of the way full. Bake at 350 degrees for 13 to 16 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
6. Allow cakes to cool and remove from the pans by running a knife around the edge of each cake and softly prying from the pan. 

*I used a pan that made 8 oversized cupcakes and they were perfect. I'm sure that you could also use a regular 12 cupcake pan, you may just want to reduce the cook time by a minute or two.