To Cupcake or not to Cupcake

To Cupcake or not to Cupcake, that is the question....I was incredible in mood to cook dessert and decorate with something on the top. While I was cooking dinner and I had extra zucchini. I was not sure what I really want to do with it. I remember that I bought blackberry. I was wondering if I could make zucchini and blackberry bread. But I was like, it is too simple for that.

I decided to research  and surf on Internet to get some idea. I came across to this Pinterest.com and explore. I know that people always like to post and share with people with the new ideas of everything. I found some interesting that I want to try. Then it started to come in my mind with many different thing. The first thing that I found was called Zucchini Raspberry cupcakes. Here is the website if you want to make: Zucchini Raspberry Cupcakes .

I found that few things that I don't have. So I decided to change it up and make it my own by what I have in the kitchen. Then I changed it to make it into my own. I called it CZB cupcake. It stand for Chocolate Zucchini Blackberry cupcake. I made it and in result it came out really great. I had this great idea is to put a single blackberry and put in the middle. So it came out really good. Here is my recipe that I want to share with you.

CZB cupcake

Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups flour (any will be fine)
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups shredded zucchini
- 1/2 cups blackberry (I suggest you to cut it half to make it easier)
- keep 24 blackberry

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F degree. Grease 24 muffin cups or use the muffin tin.
2. Whisk together the flour, cocoa, and baking soda in medium bowl, set aside. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in low speed in large bowl until lightly-colored and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, allowing each eggs to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Beat into the vanilla with the last egg.
3. Add half of the flour mixture in the butter mixture. Beat in low speed to mix it evenly. Then add all of the flour mixture and add milk. Beat in low speed for two minutes. Then take spoon and mix it, until it is all blend.
4. Add the zucchini and blackberry, fold it and mixing just enough to evenly combine. Spoon the butter into muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full. Then put the single whole blackberry in the middle and put in but not all the while, just the top of it.
5. Put in oven and cook for 20 minutes, use toothpick to make sure it came out clean. Then cool off for half hour.





You can see those cupcake have blackberry in the middle, it is cool idea to do that.

While, it is cool off. I found out that I do not have any frosting so I decided to do homemade frosting. It is not quite easy as it does. There is many different website that you could find. It is quite challenge for me to do because I did not want to use one ingredient too much so I just want to limit it. But at least it came out really good. I also add lemon juice in it and it taste really good. You can add anything in the frosting as flavor or food color. So I made lemon frosting to add on CZB cupcake. I did homemade frosting but it turned into icing because of the lemon juice that could cause it into glaze but it taste amazing.

Even you can put inside and it will make it even more amazing taste. I did taste it for myself. You can taste the blackberry mixed with lemon. It is so good. See the inside of cupcake, you could see little bit of blackberry. I guess I put the inside of icing in different place but it does not matter anyway. Just be creative!