Happy 4th of July!
I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday and eating delicious food with your loved ones! I can’t help but think of hot dogs today… thankfully we’re having some tonight for dinner! YUM!
If you’re looking for a dessert to make, I have an excellent and super-easy recipe for you. I made these last weekend for a friend’s birthday. We were already hosting dinner so I didn’t want to spend all day in the kitchen making dessert too, but I didn’t want just plain-Jane cupcakes. I took what I had on hand and created a masterpiece!
Ok, maybe not a masterpiece, but they were hecka good cupcakes!
There’s a good chance you have the ingredients in your pantry too, but if not, they’re not hard to make from scratch. I will warn you – as written, these don’t fit the bill for red/white/blue for today’s occassion, but I’m sure with a couple drops of food coloring you can make them dress appropriately!
Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
12 chocolate cupcakes, prepared (using boxed mix or from scratch)
1/2 tub chocolate icing (or equivalent of homemade)
1 tub vanilla icing (or equivalent of homemade)
2 pints fresh raspberriesCut all of the rasperries of one pint in half, lengthwise. These should somewhat resemble a triangle. Leave the other pint whole.
Cut the tops off of the cupcakes and set aside right side up (a.k.a., not upside down). Put chocolate icing in a ziplock bag forcing it down to a corner of the bag. Cut just a small bit of the corner off, maybe 1/8″. Push the icing towards the hole and pipe a circle around the base of the cupcake and then a small circle in the middle.
Line up your raspberries on top of the icing with the “base” of the triangle on the outside edge. Put another raspberry in the middle.
Pipe chocolate icing on top of the raspberries, repeating the pattern you did for the base.
Put the top of the cupcake back on, pressly slightly to adhere to the base.
Put vanilla icing in a ziplock bag forcing it down to a corner of the bag. Cut just a slightly larger hold off the corner, maybe 1/4″. Push the icing towards the hole and with one long squeeze, pipe a circular pattern on top of the cupcake, getting smaller as you go up. Top the cupcake with a raspberry for decoration.
Repeat with the other cupcakes. Chill in the refridgerator until serving time.
TIPS: I cut off the tops of 3-4 cupcakes at a time, then pipes them all, then did the raspberries, then piped again and retopped them. This made the process go by much more quickly. Ice all the tops of the cupcakes at the same time.
IDEAS: Make vanilla cupcakes instead of chocolate and use all white icing. You can tint the batter and/or the icing red or blue to suit your fancy and let the raspberries take care of the red!
How do you dress up ordinary desserts?
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Oh man, Mrs. Crumb!! Those do look delish. Ah, but it sounds like too much work for me. Why don’t you just ship some to me in Oregon, huh, huh? My daughter-in-law who lives next door, is going to use some of your recipes. Maybe she’ll make this one someday and invite me over.
Happy 4th to you and the Crumb family.
Love,
Leona
Chocolate and raspberries…better than chocolate and peanut butter! What a great and pretty dessert!
MMM, nothing better than chocolate and raspberries!
What a great idea! We’d love for you to link up with us for Tasty Tuesday over at aletteredlife.blogspot.com.
Thanks for linking up! We hope to see you again next week!
I love chocolate and berries together – what great cupcakes!
These do seem like a lot of work, but I’m sure they are worth it! But as long as you are mailing them out…
I’ll add you to the mailing list! They seem like a lot of work, but it you did them in batches (cut 6 tops, iced 6 cakes…) it’s a breeze. I figure the super-easiness of boxed cake mix makes up for the little bit of effort on the rest!
mmmmmm…chocolate. These look SO delish!
These look divine!
I really like chocolate and raspberries
Oh My these look good! Thanks for sharing at the Creative Corner Hop.
Holly
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I love the raspberries in these, that is so cool how you made them into a cupcake sandwich of deliciousness! Nice!
my two favorite dessert flavors. This, I will have to try. Thanks for sharing on BeColorful.
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YUM! Love chocolate and raspberry together. These look amazing. Thanks so much for linking up to Creative Thursday this week. I can’t wait to see what you link up next. Have a great weekend.
Michelle
Those look great! Thanks for sharing at the Pomp Party! Pinning to our Pomp Party board!
These look yummy!
Visiting via the Pomp Party Blog Hop
Sarah
There’s nothing wrong with shortcuts!
I found this via Simple Living with Diane Balch. I linked in an attempt at meatballs. Have a super week.
Wow these cupcakes sound delicious and look beautiful, too! I love chocolate and raspberries together!
Hi Tiffany,
What a great Cupcake treat, we will just love these! Hope you have a fantastic week and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Those look like some FABULOUS cupcakes!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
Oh my gosh! These look SOOO good! I love chocolate and raspberry! Pinning now! Thanks so much for sharing at Mom On Timeout!
Those look amazing! Wow! I am featuring them at todays link party!!
Jill