Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes!

Strawberries are mighty plentiful right now....and I have about three huge cartons in my fridge. I've made some super yummy sweetened cream cheese stuffed strawberries from the Our Best Bites cookbook, have some reserved to make this yummy strawberry sauce, but still needed to get rid of some of them. So I decided to make one of my most beloved desserts, Strawberry Shortcake, cupcake style. Like the banana cream pie cupcakes, there are many variations you could make. But I chose to go with homemade strawberry cupcakes, with a strawberry buttercream icing. For the cupcakes, I used this Martha Stewart recipe. I did not use the buttercream icing in the recipe, although it does look like it would be mighty yummy! I chose my standard Wilton buttercream icing because it's great to pipe with, stands up well, and doesn't require me to put the cupcakes in the fridge (as long as they are eaten within a reasonable time, which at my house that doesn't seem to be a problem!) I omitted the milk in the Wilton recipe and added strawberry preserves. If any of this didn't matter in regards to the icing, what I think would be absolutely perfect would be just plain sweetened fresh whipped cream. I didn't take step by step how to pictures for this post, because I was kinda in a rush. They got rave reviews from my sweet, sweet neighbors, who I often pawn my baked goods off on. Here's the end result. And apologies for the absolutely terrible quality of this picture- it was taken in bad light and with my cell phone.