First I prepared 12 muffins filled in with blackberries and decorated with a blackberry topping. With the rest I made 5 pots of jam, thats a good use of the fruit.
Ingredients for 12 normal size muffins or cupcakes, how you prefer to call them:
- 200 gr. flour
- 230 gr. caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 2 eggs
- 180 ml. sunflower oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 130 ml. fruit juice (I had multi fruit at home)
- 130 gr. blackberries in small pieces
In 1 bowl mix the flour and baking powder (sieve), add then the sugar and the salt and with a fork mix slowly. In a second bowl mix the eggs, fruit juice, oil and vanilla, the best is to use a mixing machine. Then add to this second bowl the mixed flour, using the mixer, mix until a nice smooth dough. When ready add the blackberries. Divided in the 12 muffins cases and bake in a 180 degrees preheated oven in about 25 minutes.
You can eat them like that or you could also make some topping, that's what I did. For this just mix again in a mixer, about 100 gr. cream cheese, 100 gr. icing sugar, 100 gr. butter. When you get a nice smooth cream, you can add some blackberry puree to give a bit of extra color.
With the rest I made jam, if you buy jelly sugar, just follow the instructions for the proportions, there is nothing better like self made jam.
