Blue Velvet, Blackberry Curd, and Blackberry Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes

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These cupcakes are definitely delicious! The three parts work together to create the end flavor, none of them would be good enough without the other. That being said it took my daughter and I a long time to make these lol! About 3 hours start to finish! And we had a lot of the curd left over. I would suggest cutting the curd down to 1/4 or 1/3 of the recipe otherwise you'll have to waste the leftover or figure out what to use it with.

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These cupcakes have potential.

I personally loved the cake, it was moist and chocolate flavored, sure it wasn't death-by-chocolate chocolate flavor but that's not what this cupcake is supposed to be anyways, it complemented the other elements well.

I couldn't get as many blackberries as I wanted to perhaps that is why I wasn't a fan of the curd, but halve the recipe for sure, I think I had enough for 3 batches.

The frosting was not strong enough with the blackberry flavor, I want to try adding in preserves next time, however I did add too much zest so the frosting became more lemon-flavored than anything else. Even with extra powdered sugar the texture of the frosting was too soft, it oozed everywhere.

But even with these blunders, the cupcakes were still very tasty and I will make them again!

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When I tasted the cupcake without all the other components I was a little disappointed, but considering the sweetness of the curd and icing, a subtle cupcake flavor was important. These cupcakes got rave reviews at work and I would definitely make them again. (I, too, had A LOT of curd left over. I do agree that you can cut the curd in half. I used a decorating tip to put the icing on and didn't have any icing leftover. So I wouldn't cut the icing recipe in half.

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I Loved these cupcakes! I will make these a regular at family events : thanks!!

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I made these cupcakes for a bake sale to benefit March of Dimes and they were sold out! Agreeing with the other reviews, there was plenty of extra curd and icing. You could make double portion of cupcakes. Flavor seemed better the next day for the curd and icing as the flavors permeated eachother. The cupcake itself is bland, but with the other flavors you barely notice. I would switch the cupcake flavor next time though.

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These were very good. I would make them again. I would use half of the recipe for the curd and frosting as well.

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Made these this past weekend with my Boyfriend and not only was is very easy to do, but also tasted very good! Could have made less of the frosting and curd then needed (I cut the batch in half but half the fun of baking is eating the left over frosting and batter!

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The curd- awesome! Could eat it by itself or on a scone. The frosting- wonderful the lemon is a nice compliment to the curd. The cake not on the same level as the other two components, mainly because it has oil instead of butter for the recipe. I don't know but personally I find that any cake that calls for oil instead of butter, falls short on the taste factor. Personally I will just melt down butter next time and use it instead so everything mixes the same or use a different cake recipe.

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It was maybe okay. I did like the curd but's that's about it. Color came out awesome but not the best cupcake. Family each had one and then ended up in the trash. Not horrible but not a keeper.