Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe – Easy Dark Chocolate

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe – How to make a delicious, easy and sweet dark chocolate raspberry cupcake dessert – with the video tutorial.

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

These Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes are very easy to put together and make a delicious dessert that will impress at a special occasion or festive Christmas gathering, or impress a loved one for Valentine’s Day.

The recipe is adapted from an old favorite Nigella Lawson recipe for chocolate cherry cupcakes that appears in my all-time favorite dessert cookbook – “How to be a domestic goddess” – a cookbook that I have cooked from more than any other and that holds a special place in my heart and my cookbook collection.

How to make chocolate cupcakes with raspberries

Start by gathering the simple ingredients for the simple recipe:

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 300 g raspberry jam
• 1/3-1/2 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup plain flour

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and set a Cupcake mold with 12 holes of cupcake linersso it’s ready to use when you’re ready to fill your baking sheet with the cupcake batter.

Cut the butter into pieces and place in a small saucepan. Divide the chocolate and set it aside so it is ready to use when the butter has melted.

Move the butter in the pan to the stove over low to medium heat and cook until the butter has melted. Then add the chopped chocolate and cook until everything has melted. Then immediately remove the pan from the heat.

Then it’s just a matter of mixing in all the remaining ingredients one at a time, until everything is fully incorporated to create a cupcake batter, starting with the jam, then the sugar salt and eggs and finally the plain flour.

Divide the cupcake batter into the prepared cupcake pan, I like to start with a tablespoon of batter per cupcake and then divide the rest among the cupcakes. For this batter, I found that each cupcake contained about 2 tablespoons of cupcake batter.

Transfer the cupcakes to the preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes, or until golden brown and done to your liking.

Allow the cupcakes to cool to room temperature before covering with chocolate or raspberry frosting, frosting or ganache of your choice.

My pick is a rich chocolate ganache, made by melting 100g of dark chocolate together with 1/3 cup of cream until melted, then setting aside to cool and thicken at room temperature before brushing the cupcakes with the beautiful ganache.

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 300 g raspberry jam
• 1/3-1/2 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup plain flour

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a 12-hole cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
2. Finely chop the butter and place it in a small saucepan. Chop the chocolate finely and set it aside.
3. Place the butter in the pan on the stove over low to medium heat and cook until the butter has melted.
4. Add the chocolate to the melted butter and cook until completely melted. Then remove the pan from the heat.
5. Pour the raspberry jam over the melted chocolate butter mixture and stir until completely combined.
6. Add the sugar, salt and eggs and mix until completely incorporated. Then add the flour and stir gently until you have a cupcake batter.
7. Spoon a few tablespoons of batter per cupcake into the prepared cupcake liners, then place in the preheated oven for 25 minutes of cooking time or until golden brown and done to your liking.
8. Remove from the oven, let cool to room temperature before removing from the pan and brush with your icing, frosting or ganache of choice.
9. Store leftover, cooled to room temperature, frosted cupcakes in an airtight container to enjoy within a few days.

Recipe video tutorial

Here is the video where you can see step by step how to prepare the simple recipe for raspberry chocolate cupcakes. Press play or below click here to watch on YouTube.

More easy raspberry dessert recipes

Raspberry vanilla smoothie

Raspberry chia pudding

Raspberry cheesecake mousse

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