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    You are here: Home / Special Diets / Vegetarian / Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

    Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

    14 May 2014 - By Michelle Minnaar
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    Raspberry and white chocolate, a classic combination that remains popular throughout the year.

    Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

    Last year when I reached out to restaurant chefs to demonstrate famous dishes for me, such as Tzatziki and Samosas, I've started reaching out to avid bakers.

    Raspberry Cupcakes

    Recently I moved to Hockley in Essex and tracked down Sue Field, owner of Finesse Cakes, who lives a stone's throw away. Are you arty? I'm not. My monkey drawing looks like a mouse and a horse looks like an alien. Even Sudan the elephant, paints better than I do.

    In stark contrast you get these really fantastic artists who create works with such ease and with a great eye for detail. One of them is Sue, just check out her gallery of wedding cakes. She bakes them with a range of flavours and gracefully helped me out with three cupcake recipes. Below is a cake that she was working on when I came over for the photo shoot.

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    Here we go. It's always a good idea to measure out all the ingredients before baking or cooking.

    Measuring flour

    We need some flour, sugar, butter and egg.

    Weighing caster sugar

    Very quickly I realised, in contrast to shooting food step-by-step, doing it for baking quickly gets boring.

    Spoonful of Margarine

    As always, we'll just about always need .... you guessed it ... flour, sugar, butter and egg. So after the following three cupcake recipes, my focus would be less on step-by-step and more on techniques to get stuff done.

    Cracking egg

    Don't forget to pre-heat your oven to 175°C/350°F/gas mark 5. Mix the butter and sugar together until it turns into a lighter colour.

    Churning butter and sugar

    Here's a handy trick. Instead of pouring in all the eggs at once, add just one egg at a time along with a spoonful of flour to stop it curdling. When it's incorporated into the batter, add the next egg and spoonful of flour and so on. This makes the cupcake mix lighter . The remaining flour should be mixed in at a slow speed. The end result is that your cupcakes will rise better.

    Raw Cupcake Mix

    You can use fresh or frozen raspberries. Depending on the season you might be better off using frozen raspberries because they are picked at their prime and quickly frozen whereas out of season fresh raspberries are tasteless thanks to the many miles they are shipped from a foreign country.

    Raspberries and White Chocolate

    If you're using frozen raspberries, zap them in the microwave and give them a stir. If you don't like pips, strain the mixture.

    Chopped raspberries

    Add it to the mix.

    Mixing in raspberries

    Don't forget the all important white chocolate chips!

    Crumbled White Chocolate

    What you'll end up with is a pale pink batter.

    Raspberry and White Chocolate Batter

    Here is another clever trick I learned from Sue. Until now I've always grappled with getting equal amounts into each cupcake case. Solution? Use an ice-cream scoop!

    Ice cream scoop with batter

    These babies are ready for the oven.

    Cupcake batter ready for oven

    Simply beautiful. Now they need icing.

    Cupcakes fresh from oven

    Soften the butter for the icing. Gently mix in the icing sugar, careful to create clouds of sugary dust, which will delight the kids of course. You can use a hand mixer which will make the job much easier. For larger quantities use a food mixer.

    Butter Icing

    Place the butter icing in a piping bag and pipe swirls onto the cakes.

    Piping cupcakes

    Decorate using your creativity - anything from using fresh raspberries, sprinkles and chocolate.

    Iced cupcakes

    I hope you enjoyed this recipe - more cupcake recipes are coming soon!

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    Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes


    ★★★★★

    5 from 2 reviews

    • Author: Michelle Minnaar
    • Total Time: 35 minutes
    • Yield: 12 1x
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    Description

    A classy addition to any kind of afternoon tea.


    Ingredients

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    • 130g self-raising flour
    • 130g caster sugar
    • 130g butter or margarine
    • 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
    • 2 large eggs
    • 60g fresh or frozen raspberries
    • 90g white chocolate
    • 250g unsalted butter
    • 500g icing sugar

    Instructions

    1. Pre-heat oven to 175°C/350°F/gas mark 5 and place appropriate number of muffin cases in a muffin tray.
    2. Measure out butter and sugar into same bowl and cream together until well mixed and turns lighter in colour.
    3. Measure out flour into a separate bowl and add the baking powder – gently stir together.
    4. Add 1 egg to the creamed butter and sugar along with a tablespoon of the flour and mix well.
    5. Repeat step 4 with the other egg.
    6. Chop the raspberries until they have turned to a liquid.
    7. Chop the chocolate into small chunks.
    8. Gently stir in the remaining flour, raspberries and white chocolate.
    9. Scoop mixture into cases up to about half full.
    10. Place the mixture in the oven for approximately 15-20 minutes. Check after 15 minutes to see if cooked. Cakes will be cooked when they are springy and return to shape when lightly pressed on top.
    11. Remove cakes from the tin and place them on a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
    12. For the butter icing you first need to soften the butter.
    13. Carefully add icing sugar to avoid clouds of icing dust.
    14. Mix until fully incorporated and butter icing becomes whiter.
    15. Using a large star nozzle, pipe swirls of butter icing onto the cakes.
    16. Decorate with a fresh raspberry, grated white chocolate, edible sprinkles or any other edible decorations as desired. Cover and refrigerate any left over butter icing.

    Notes

    Serve with risotto Milanese, buttered pasta or polenta.Serve at an afternoon tea.

    • Prep Time: 15 minutes
    • Cook Time: 20 minutes
    • Category: Dessert
    • Cuisine: English

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 117.1g
    • Calories: 527
    • Sugar: 51.5 g
    • Sodium: 50 mg
    • Fat: 28.5 g
    • Saturated Fat: 16.3 g
    • Carbohydrates: 64.7 g
    • Protein: 2.9 g

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    Comments

    1. Katie Bryson

      May 14, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      Raspberry and white chocolate is such a lush flavour combination... and the cases are so pretty - especially the butterfly ones. I think I hanker after super girly things much more since I became the mother of boys!!!! Good on you setting up a shop...

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    2. Ren Behan

      May 14, 2014 at 6:51 pm

      Lovely cupcakes - I really love adding fruit purees into the mix or even some fresh lemon curd. Good luck with the online shop and thank you for the link love. Off to investigate the beetroot and bitter chocolate cupcakes....

      Reply
    3. Nazima

      May 15, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      what pretty cupcakes and lovely cases.
      I love how you have done the icing
      I do have to make cupcakes relatively often as my daughter loves them so will try your version out!

      Reply
    4. Sarah, Maison Cupcake

      May 20, 2014 at 10:06 am

      So pretty! Raspberry and white chocolate are one of my all time favourite flavour combinations, it never fails to please 🙂

      Reply
    5. DANIELLE VEDMORE

      May 28, 2014 at 9:32 pm

      Very nice - I am a cupcake addict! x

      ★★★★★

      Reply
    6. Michelle

      May 31, 2014 at 1:09 pm

      Thanks, Danielle. I hop you try them out!

      Reply
    7. Icing images

      October 21, 2014 at 7:50 am

      Very nice and pretty cupcakes.I love your work!

      Reply
    8. plasterers bristol

      July 26, 2016 at 12:16 pm

      My all time favorite. Awesome recipe. Thanks for sharing this.

      Simon

      Reply
    9. Simba

      November 20, 2016 at 12:05 pm

      Tried these out and the flavour is amazing but both times they took forever to cook and we're still really wet on the inside. Are they supposed to be like that?

      Reply
    10. Renil M. George

      September 24, 2017 at 7:45 pm

      Its my all time favorite. Awesome recipe. Thanks for sharing this.

      ★★★★★

      Reply
    11. Jill S

      March 22, 2018 at 1:57 pm

      Love raspberry and white chocolate combination! My cake batter turns a purpley blue instead of a pale pink when I add the raspberries. Any suggestions?

      Reply
      • michelle

        March 25, 2018 at 9:04 pm

        Purpley blue? Very interesting!! Not to worry though. Your cake is perfectly safe to eat for one. Second - the purple colour comes from a chemical reaction between the raspberries and the baking powder. My suggestion for next time, go easy on the baking powder and more on the raspberry 🙂

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