Blackberry Lime Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Blackberry lime cupcakes are butter free, moist cupcakes frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 35 minutesminutes
Servings 12cupcakes
Calories 457kcal
Ingredients
Blackberry Cupcakes
½cupVegetable Oil
2Eggs
1tablespoonLime Zest
½cupMilk
1teaspoonVanilla Extract
300gramsor 2 cups All Purpose Flour
200gramsor 1 cup Sugar
2teaspoonBaking Powder
½teaspoonSalt
2cupsFresh or Frozen Blackberries
Lime Cream Cheese Frosting
3ozCream Cheese soften
¼cupor 56.7 grams/2 oz Butter soften
1teaspoonLime Zestopt
1tablespoonLime Juice
1tablespoonBlackberry Juice or Lime Juice
3 ½cupsor 362.5 gram Confectioners’ Sugar
Instructions
Blackberry Cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 350 F or 176C.
Line muffin/cupcake pan with liners.
In a bowl combine all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and keep side.
In a separate bowl take blackberries sprinkle some flour (from above step, about ½ - 1 cup) to coat the blackberries. Generously coat the berries and this will help the berries from sinking to the bottom of the cupcake tin when baking. This is an optional step and check notes below.
In a large bowl mix oil, eggs, lime zest, milk and vanilla.
Stir in the dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Then gently fold or stir in blackberries.
Fill lined cupcake/muffin cups with batter ⅔ way and bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Mine took 23 ½ minutes and for mini cupcakes, 17 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
In a large bowl beat cream cheese, butter, lime zest (if using) and juice until smooth.
Beat in confectioners sugar.
Frost cupcakes and refrigerate leftover frosting upto a week.
Notes
Blackberries are very soft and need to be handled with care, else will crush. So, coat blackberries with flour. If one wants to skip this step, add berries to dry ingredients. The only disadvantage of adding blackberries with dry ingredients is, berries will get crushed and batter changes to dark purple color.
Nutrition - Values mentioned below are approximate.