Blackberry and Vanilla Cupcakes

Loving these new Russian piping nozzles! So many ideas I want to try, watch this space!....

For cakes:

4oz Castor Sugar
4oz Margarine
4oz SR Flour
2 eggs, beaten with 1tbsp milk
1tsp Baking Powder
fresh blackberries
purple food colouring

For Icing:

2oz Margarine
2oz Butter
8oz Icing Sugar
1tsp Glycerine

Make cakes by creaming margarine and sugar till light and fluffy, add eggs a little at a time. add vanilla.
Fold in flour and baking powder.

Put half mixture in another bowl, and add a little purple food colouring at a time until colour required.

Put half a dessert spoon of each mix into 12 cupcake papers. add 1 blackberry in centre of cupcake.
Bake in oven Gas 6, aprox 20 mins until risen and centre springs back.
Place on wire rack to cool.

Beat together marg, butter and icing sugar till light and fluffy, beat in 1tsp vanilla essence.
Add half buttercream to another bowl, and add a little purple colouring at a time, until colour required.
Add white buttercream into one piping bag, and purple into another, then place both piping bags inside of another one, with nozzle of choice.
Pipe swirls on each cake,add blackberry in centre and dust with a little icing sugar.

Enjoy!