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Purple velvet cupcakes with blackberry icing

Use up an abundance of blackberries with these irresistible chocolate and berry cupcakes - they're almost too pretty to eat - by Alison Pickel
  • 08 Feb 2016
Purple velvet cupcakes with blackberry icing
Cook: 75 Minutes - easy - Serves 12 - Vegetarian - nut-free - pregnancy-safe
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Use up an abundance of blackberries with these irresistible chocolate and berry cupcakes - they're almost too pretty to eat

Ingredients

300 g blackberries, plus 12 extra for decoration

100 g butter

100 g milk chocolate, broken into chunks

225 g self-raising flour

175 g golden caster sugar

1 ½ tbsp cocoa powder

2 large eggs, beaten

red food colouring, or purple food colouring

For the icing

100 g unsalted butter, at room temperature

400 g icing sugar, sifted

1 tsp vanilla extract

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Roughly crush half the blackberries with a fork so the juice is running but there are still some chunky bits. Gently melt the butter and chocolate in a saucepan. Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and a pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl. Put the kettle on.
  2. Scrape the butter-chocolate mixture and eggs into the dry ingredients with the crushed blackberries and 100ml boiling water. Mix together until smooth, then add a little food colouring to boost the red/purple hue. Divide between the muffin cases and bake for 15 mins until risen and a skewer poked into the centre comes out clean. Lift from the tin onto a wire rack and cool completely.
  3. Whizz the remaining 150g blackberries to a purée. Beat the butter, icing sugar and vanilla together until really pale and fluffy – about 5 mins. Sieve the remaining blackberry purée and gently fold into the icing. Spoon into a piping bag fitted with your favourite nozzle and pipe a generous amount onto each cupcake – removing the paper case first if you want to show the colour of the sponge. Top each with a fresh blackberry and enjoy.
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