Purple velvet cupcakes with blackberry frosting

Use up an abundance of blackberries with these irresistible chocolate and berry cupcakes - they're almost too pretty to eat

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...

Ingredients

• 300g blackberries Blackberry blak-bear-eeA purply black-coloured berry comprising many individual seed-containing fruits surrounding a… , plus 12 extra for decoration
• 100g butter Butter butt-errButter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
• 100g milk chocolate, broken into chunks
• 225g self-raising flour
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 large eggs Egg eggThe ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a… , beaten
• a little red or purple artificial food colouring
• 100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 400g icing sugar, sifted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract