Last month when I was making the cupcakes for Heather's shower.... I had an idea... I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Strawberry Cake recipe. I love it for how it tastes and how easy it is, but I also love it because I created it for a dear friend of mine. A few years back she was pregnant with #3 and was experiencing some sugar problems. Nothing to be too worried about but she is a doctors wife and was trying to be very careful. This meant cutting out all the yummy stuff.. and let's face it, very few sugar free things are as good as the original. So I set out to find a way to make her a cake that she could eat without sending herself into a diabetic coma. I mixed and matched and messed around with a lot of recipes until I found something that tasted AMAZING and had no added sugar- it has sugar but it comes from the natural sweetness of the strawberries!
Where was I?? Oh yeah... making Heather's cupcakes... anyway... while I was mixing those up,my mind started wondering. Wondering what other fruit would be good to substitute for strawberries. And would it work as well??? Tonight I began experiment #1. Blackberry Cupcakes!!!
Same basic recipe but I tweaked it a little and did add some sugar since I find blackberries to be a little tart (at least for a cake with no sugar in it!). I topped them with a light cream cheese icing. YUMMY!
I think it turned out great. The only drawback I found is those dang blackberry seeds! Next time maybe I will see if I can find some seedless ones...
