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Berry Cupcakes with Swiss Buttercream

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Ingredients

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Berry cupcakes:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 tbsp corn flour
  • 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 125 g butter (, softened)
  • 1 cup Natvia natural sweetener
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup Barker's New Zealand mixed berry compote

Buttercream:

  • 3 egg whites
  • 1/2 cup Natvia natural sweetener
  • 250 g butter (, softened and cubed)
  • 1/4 cup Barker's New Zealand mixed berry compote
  • 2 drops red food colouring ((optional))
  • Fresh berries to top

Instructions

Berry cupcakes:

  1. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with 10 patty pan cases.
  2. In a large bowl, combine flour, cornflour and baking powder.
  3. In a separate bowl, add softened butter and sweetener. Beat with a mixer for approximately five minutes until pale and creamy. Add milk, eggs, vanilla and berry compote. Whisk together.
  4. Pour dry ingredients into the wet and stir gently until the batter is smooth. 
  5. Divide batter into patty pans. Cook for 30 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. 
  6. Once baked, allow to cool in the tin for five minutes before placing on to a cooling rack. Allow cupcakes to cool completely before icing. 

Buttercream:

  1. Heat a saucepan filled with a little water over a medium heat. Place a bowl over the top with egg whites and sweetener. Whisk gently until sweetener has completely dissolved.
  2. Remove bowl from heat and place on to a stand mixer. Whisk until egg whites are large and fluffy, approximately eight minutes.
  3. Turn the mixer to low speed and gently beat in butter, a cube at a time. Buttercream should be smooth and silky. Add in berry compote and food colouring, and mix well until completely combined. 
  4. Place buttercream into piping back and pipe on to cooled cupcakes. Top with fresh berries to serve. 

Notes

  • If the buttercream is too runny, place into the fridge for 30 minutes and it will harden up.
  • When you add the compote to the buttercream, it may start to 'curdle'. To fix this, scoop out one third of the icing and microwave for 10 seconds. Pour back into the rest of the icing and whisk. Frosting should come together.