Blackberry Cornmeal Cupcakes

Up to now, I am still too full to blog. I think my stomach is on strike. We are currently not on speaking terms. It can only take so much.

Remember the cake I made for Christmas? The Lemon Glazed Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Whipped Cream and Pear Compote? Is it just me or did you notice that the cake name is a mouthful? I am currently rolling it in my mouth right now....

Lemon Glazed Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Whipped Cream and Pear Compote.

Lemon Glazed Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Whipped Cream and Pear Compote.

Lemon Glazed Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Whipped Cream and Pear Compote.

Have I just made the last tongue twister for 2011? I think so!

On to other news, I baked some Blackberry Cornmeal Cupcakes. No tongue twisting required when you say the name. Just perhaps when you take a bite, because it is not overly sweet, chewy, a bit gritty, just how a cornmeal cupcake should be.

Blackberry Cornmeal Cupcakes
from Martha Stewart Cupcakes
375 F
makes 16 cupcakes


Ingredients:
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. fine- or medium-ground yellow cornmeal
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. buttermilk, room temperature
2 large eggs, room temperature
7 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled
2 containers (6 oz. each) fresh blackberries

Directions:
(1) Preheat oven to 375 F. Line 18 standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and 1 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar. Set aside remaining sugar. In another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter. Pour over flour mixture, whisking to combine.

(2) Fill each lined cup with a scant 1/4 cup batter. Top batter with blackberries (3-4 berries per cup), then sprinkle evenly with the remaining 2 tbsp sugar.

 (3) Bake until evenly browned on top, 20-25 minutes. 

Martha said to make sure oven is set at 375F before baking the cupcakes, or else the berries will sink. Perhaps I wasn't closely watching the oven, that Bones episode where Bones and Booth were trapped in the elevator was on Fox. The berries did sink. But nevertheless, the cupcakes were good!!! I finished two even before they cooled.