Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe – Easy Dark Chocolate

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

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

These chocolate raspberry cupcakes come together really easily and make a delicious dessert that will wow a crowd at a special occasion or Festive Christmas Gathering, or impress a loved one for Valentine’s Day.

The recipe is adapted from an old favourite Nigella Lawson recipe for Chocolate-Cherry Cupcakes that features in my all time favourite dessert cookbook – “How To Be A Domestic Goddess” – a cookbook that I’ve cooked from more than any other and has 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 easy recipe:

• 125g/4.4oz Unsalted Butter
• 100g/3.5oz Dark Chocolate
• 300g/10.5oz Raspberry Jam
• 1/3-1/2 Cup Sugar
• Pinch of Salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Cup Plain Flour

Get the oven preheating to 180C/350F and line a 12 hole cupcake tin with cupcake liners, so that it’s ready to go when you’re ready to fill your tray with the cupcake batter.

Chop the butter and place it into a small saucepan and break up the chocolate then set it aside so that it’s ready to go when the butter has melted.

Move the butter in the saucepan to the stove top over low to medium heat and cook until the butter has melted, then add the chopped chocolate and cook until it’s all melted together, then immediately remove the saucepan from the heat.

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

Move the cupcake batter to the prepared cupcake tin, 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 included about 2 tablespoons of cupcake batter.

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

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

My choice is a rich chocolate ganache made by melting together 100g/3.5oz of dark chocolate together with 1/3 cup of cream until melted, then setting aside to cool and thicken at room temperature before frosting the cupcakes with the gorgeous ganache.

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe

• 125g/4.4oz Unsalted Butter
• 100g/3.5oz Dark Chocolate
• 300g/10.5oz Raspberry Jam
• 1/3-1/2 Cup Sugar
• Pinch of Salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Cup Plain Flour

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and line a 12 hole is cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
2. Chop the butter and place it in a small saucepan and chop up the chocolate and set it aside.
3. Place the butter in the saucepan on the stove top over low to medium heat and cook until the butter has melted.
4. Add the chocolate to the melted butter and cook until it has fully melted, then remove the saucepan from the heat.
5. Pour the raspberry jam over the melted chocolate butter mixture and stir through until fully combined.
6. Add in the sugar, salt and eggs and mix until fully incorporated, then add and gently stir through the flour until you have a cupcake batter.
7. Move a couple of tablespoons of batter per cupcake into the prepared cupcake liners, then place into the preheated oven for 25 minutes cooking time or until golden brown and cooked to your liking.
8. Remove from the oven, allow to cool to room temperature before removing from the tin and topping with your frosting, icing or ganache of choice.
9. Store leftover cooled to room temperature and frosted cupcakes in an airtight container to enjoy within a couple of days.

Recipe Video Tutorial

Here’s the video where you can watch the easy raspberry chocolate cupcakes recipe being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.

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