Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Blackberry Buttercream
dairy-free recipe
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New Year's Eve dessert idea for dark chocolate blackberry cupcakes with fresh blackberries and edible gold stars as garnish.
Dark chocolate dessert idea
These dairy-free dark chocolate cupcakes with a luscious blackberry buttercream are the answer to all your dessert dreams! With velvety rich chocolate and a burst of tangy sweetness from the blackberry topping, these cupcakes are guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth. These decadent cupcakes are great for several special occasions such as a birthday, graduation, Halloween, New Year’s Eve or any celebration.
Halloween dark chocolate cupcake with easy blackberry buttercream frosting and chocolate skull garnish on top.
The blackberry chocolate buttercream frosting is made with seedless blackberry preserves or you can use your own home made jam. This frosting makes a perfect match for the delectable dark chocolate cupcakes. If you’d prefer a more colorful frosting, you can omit the cocoa in the buttercream recipe and the preserves will give your frosting a lovely pink purple tint, or you can use a food color to enhance the purple. Makes 18 regular sized cupcakes.
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Ingredients to make dark chocolate cupcakes
Blackberry buttercream frosting ingredients
How to make dark chocolate cupcakes
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350℉ and line a muffin pan with paper liners.