White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
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Delicious, sweet and fruity white chocolate raspberry cupcakes with a white chocolate and raspberry sponge, white chocolate buttercream frosting, and more!
White chocolate and raspberry cupcakes
One thing that I love about this blog, is how passionate about baking my readers are… but one thing I cannot cope with?! The amount of people who have asked for this recipe! Honestly… I can’t cope!
I get it, you all love the combination of white chocolate and raspberries as much as I do… but wow! After the downright crazy successes of my white chocolate & raspberry loaf, and my white chocolate & raspberry cheesecake, I’m not surprised!
If you want to make this recipe into a layer cake, you’ll have to work it out yourself! I won’t be giving away my secrets haha!
Cupcakes
Anyway… back to the cupcakes. As always, I used a standard sort of cupcake recipe – because why mess with something right?! A 150g cake mix, with fresh raspberries and white chocolate chips = heaven in every cup.
I used a 150g mix of butter, sugar, flour and eggs because the weight of the raspberries and chocolate made quite a bit more mix than usual! So much so, that this recipe actually makes more like 15 cupcakes, rather than the usual 12!
Baking cups
I use my favourite Iced Jems baking cups for this because it means you can fit more on one tray, compared to if you were using a cupcake tray which typically have 12 holes! Alternatively, with the extra bit of mix, you can make some mini versions of them! (Mini ones take about 12 minutes to bake!)
Buttercream
For the buttercream, I used the same recipe as in my white chocolate cupcakes – because I just adore it! It’s such a simple buttercream! I use Callebaut white chocolate because it is my favourite – perfect for the sponge and frosting!
You can realistically use any white chocolate you fancy – the key is just to make sure it’s not too hot before adding it into your buttercream! You also want the buttercream to be silky and smooth first, so little mixing is required!
Piping and topping
As a standard these days, because I can’t seem to break a really ingrained habit… I used my FAVOURITE 2D closed star piping tip! I am just OBSESSED with the swirl it creates! Just look at how beautiful it is!!
Also, because this is the classic White Chocolate & Raspberry combo… I had to use my favourite freeze dried raspberries on the top! I just think it’s a beautiful way to finish the cupcake, whilst looking delicate, and tasting delicious!
I hope you love this recipe as always! Enjoy!
White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes!
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 150 g unsalted butter
- 150 g caster sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 150 g self raising flour
- 150 g white chocolate chips
- 150 g raspberries
White Chocolate Buttercream
- 125 g unsalted butter (room temp)
- 250 g icing sugar
- 150 g white chocolate (melted)
Decoration
- White chocolate sprinkles
- Freeze dried raspberries
- Raspberries
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan and get your 12-15 Iced Jems baking cups onto a flat tray (Or whatever cupcake cases you are using in a cupcake tray!)
- Cream together the butter and caster sugar until light, fluffy and smooth!
- Add in the beaten eggs and self raising flour and beat again for about 20-30 seconds on a medium speed – it really doesn’t take too long, you don’t want to overdo it!
- Add in your white chocolate and raspberries and fold through!
- Spoon you cupcake mix into your baking cups and bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until cooked through! Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Once the cakes are cool, make the buttercream frosting – melt your white chocolate until smooth and leave to cool.
- Beat the softened butter until smooth – this can take a couple of minutes. Add in the icing sugar 1/3 at a time, making sure the sugar is fully incorporated until moving on!
- Once all of the sugar is in the mix and it's smooth and lovely, add in your white chocolate and beat again until smooth!
- Using a 2D closed star piping tip, pipe the buttercream onto the cupcakes!
- Decorate your cupcakes how you like – I use sprinkles, freeze dried raspberries, and a fresh raspberry – ENJOY!
Notes
- YOU MUST USE ACTUAL BUTTER FOR BUTTERCREAM – I can’t stress this enough. I get comments often about ‘why is my buttercream so runny’ and 9/10 times its because the incorrect butter was used. You can’t use stork, or a spread, or a substitute for buttercream.
- I say this recipe makes 15 cupcakes as there often is more mix (due to the added chocolate chips and raspberries.)
- I buy my cupcakes cases/baking cups from Iced Jems – here!
- I use this beautiful piping tip for these cupcakes!
- I always use callebaut white chocolate because it's my favourite!
- And I recommend these freeze dried raspberries!
- These cupcakes will last in an airtight container for 3 days at room temperature!
- If you want to make mini ones with the leftover mix (As this mix often makes more than 12 cupcakes) they take 10-12 minutes to bake!
ENJOY!
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Love this recipe they turned out fantastic, will definitely make again. I made vanilla buttercream as I didn’t have enough white chocolate for the cakes + icing but still tasted great and got loads of compliments. Thanks Jane!
Hi what size are the cups you use for your cupcakes? Are they the mini or the regular cups? Thankyou! X
Regular!
Hi Jane,
I’m wanting to use this recipe for a cake rather than cupcakes but not for a week or so. Will the baked sponges be ok to be frozen if I make them ahead?
Thanks 😁 x
Yeah that should be fine xx
Made these yesterday and I received so many positive comments from those who tried them. I followed your tips to stop the raspberries and chocolate chips sinking. Thanks for so many fantastic recipes, I’m looking forward to working my way through them!
Can I please ask what is the top to stop the raspberries and chocolate chips from sinking?
Looking forward to trying this! Sorry if this is a silly question but do you sift the self raising flour? And if so do you weigh before or after sifting? Thank you! X
I personally don’t no! x
Hi Jane,
Could I replace raspberries with pistachios? I loved your white choc and pistachio cake I want to make this as a cupcake!xxx
Yes for sure!! x
I’d like to make these cupcakes gluten free, would you use xanthan gum to help the texture if using gluten free flour? Thanks!
Yes! I would say maybe 1/2tsp (or whatever you find best!) x
Hi Jane,
I made these yesterday and they were delicious!
However, I noticed the chocolate chips sunk to the bottom and were stuck on the wrapper when peeling it off the cupcake. Also, I noticed there were some small sink holes on the top of the cupcake but it looked like that’s where the raspberry’s were so not sure if it was something to do with them. This didn’t matter too much though because I piped my buttercream over it. But any ideas as to why this happened please? Thanks 🙂 x
So the holes on the top can come from things sinking and moisture – it may be worth coating the raspberries and chocolate chips in flour, and maybe also freezing the chocolate slightly! x
Hi Jane, I absolutely loved this recipe! However, whenever I add the chocolate to my butter cream it goes very grainy and the buttercream is hard to pipe and doesn’t stick to the cupcakes very well. Any ideas of where I am going wrong? I leave my chocolate to cool before I add it to the butter cream and before I add the chocolate the buttercream is nice and Fluffy. I thought it could be the type of chocolate but this also happened with the buttercream for the Terry’s chocolate orange loaf cake.
P.s I love your recipes!!
Hey! So how are you mixing it? Also, do you add any liquid? Sometimes if you add a little whole milk or boiling water it can bring the buttercream back! X
I just kept beating the grainy mixture until it came nice and fluffy again.
Hi. I followed the recipe but I only got 9 cupcakes! I used a standard size ice cream scoop and some cups and only just scraped enough for 9. My cups were about half full – it sounds like you had a lot more mixture?
That sounds like the cups are bigger for sure, there’s definitely no way this only makes 9 if they are the same size as mine! (Or your scoop is bigger!)
Hi, I am planning to make your raspberry and lemon cake for my birthday. But instead of the lemon buttercream I want to add white chocolate buttercream. How much ingredients would I need to cover a 3 tier, 8 inch cake with the buttercream you are using in this recipe.
Many thanks
Have a look at my loaf cake for inspiration, along with the lemon and raspberry layer cake x
Hey! How would I do the measurements work to make this into an 8” cake?
I usually say one batch of cupcakes does one layer of an 8″!
Hello how would I make the freeze thaw raspberries without the machine thing could I use some sort of raspberry sauce??
Hey! Sorry I don’t understand – do you mean the freeze-dried raspberries? That’s not typically something you can make at home!
Hi Jane! I made these cupcakes the other day and they tasted amazing!!! One thing I noticed though was that the bottom of the cakes seemed to stick to the case which I think was due to the chocolate chips at the bottom, is there a way to avoid this? Or could there be any other reason why this happened?
Hey! Yes that could be the chips – you could try freezing the chocolate chips for at least an hour so they basically bake for less time! x
Made these to leave on neighbour’s doorsteps to make them smile, and they LOVED them! Recipe was really easy to follow and they were super fun to make. I used fresh raspberries and folded them in carefully at the end, it worked great. The icing was quite thick so I just added some full fat milk until it came to a consistency I could pipe! Thank you Jane!