Blackberry Cupcakes
Basic vanilla cupcakes garnished with blackberry cream and filled with blackberry preserve.
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups (175 grams) flour
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1 stick (100 grams) butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk
Ingredients for the filling:
- 1 cup blackberry preserve
Ingredients for frosting:
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 3 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoon blackberries preserve
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For garnish:
- Fresh blackberries
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 180°C / 350°F fan.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla, milk and melted butter to a unify batter.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder. Mix until unified again.
- Pour the batter into the cupcake paper cases up to ¾ height - the cakes will grow in the oven.
- Bake for 20 minutes until golden.
- Cool the cupcakes at room temperature.
- With a teaspoon, create holes in each cupcake center.
- Fill the holes with the filling.
- Make the cream: whip all frosting ingredients together to a unify cream with stiff peaks.
- Pipe the cream on top of the filled cupcakes with a star nozzle or any other nozzle that you choose.
- Garnish each cupcake with fresh blackberry on top.
- Dig in!