cooking&crafting: Blackberry, Lemon and Chocolate Cupcakes

I recently visited m&s as they have a 20% off home ware at the moment, so i bought some mini silicon cases which were £4 down to £3.20. These cases were so small that I made 1/2 the recipe just so i didn't make 81 more than the recipe says (i seriously did that, i made 93 cookies by accident.) Anyway, this is my version of a 'hummingbird' recipe - vanilla cupcakes.

Ingredients:

60g Plain Flour

1 flat tsp baking power

salt

20g butter

1/2 egg

60ml whole milk

40g Sugar this should be 70g but as I am adding fruit later on, there are natural sugars in that, so you can get away with not using as much

a couple drops of vanilla extract don;t use too much of this as it will make the lemon buns to vanilla-ery

large tsp of chocolate spread don't use too much, i put a bit too much in and the sank slightly in the middle

2 tsp lemon

A small handful of freshly picked blackberries

Method:

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C/325defrees F/Gas 3

Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and butter in a bowl and mix with an electric mixer. It should have a sandy consistency.

Pour half the milk in and beat until the milk is just incorporated.

Whisk the egg, vanilla and the rest of the milk together in a separate bowl for a few seconds.

Mix the egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix until just incorporated.scrape the sides of the bowl clean and keep on mixing for a couple minutes/until smooth.

Split the mixture into three bowls and add the different flavourings, chocolate spread into one, lemon in the other and blackberries in the last. be careful with the blackberries so that the do not break up.