Recipes

[FunkyHulaGirl]

Another winner from Lizzy Early!

Raspberry Hot Chocolate Cupcakes


Ingredients
Chocolate Cake:
1 box devil's food cake mix
3 eggs
1/2 C. oil
3/4 C. milk or buttermilk
3/4 C. sour cream or yogurt
Marshmallow Flu/ff for filling

Raspberry Buttercream:
1.2 oz. freeze dried raspberries, crushed and sifted to remove seeds
1 C. butter, softened
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3-4 C. powdered sugar

Fresh raspberries and sprinkles (or marshmallows) for decoration

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps and add eggs, oil, milk and sour cream. Stir until smooth.
3. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
4. Let cool.
5. Use a small knife to cut out holes from the tops of the cupcakes and fill with marshmallow fl/uff! This gives is the "hot chocolate" feel with the marshmallow filling!
6. Raspberry Buttercream: (For info about the raspberries and substitute alternatives, see below.) Beat butter until smooth. Add in raspberries (crushed and sifted) and vanilla extract and beat again. Slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Add milk if it becomes too thick.
7. Pipe onto cooled (and filled) cupcakes and top with fresh raspberries and sprinkles. You can also just top them with mini marshmallows or one big one!

[bigkat]

These look wonderful FHG!!

[HB glamma]

Will make for my DH's birthday this month! He is a berry lover and I am a chocolate lover so these will be perfect

[Theoriginallacey]

Those are beautiful, but the cake mix and freeze dried raspberries are kind of a turn off for me.

[Vamp]

chocolate + raspberry = love

[Kachina624]

I never heard of freeze dried raspberries. These would be pretty for Valentine's Day.

[FunkyHulaGirl]

On 12/3/2014 kachina624 said: I never heard of freeze dried raspberries. These would be pretty for Valentine's Day.

I never did either, until I saw them in a recipe in one of Lizzy's books. She said she gets hers at Trader Joe's, and I did find them there - they also have freeze-dried strawberries, blueberries, and pineapple. I love the idea of using real fruit in frosting, rather than artificial flavoring.