Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine gave me a book with cupcake recipes from a famous bakery, strangely, I have never actually made anything from this book... until now. I took a basic chocolate cupcake and cream cheese frosting recipe and added freeze-dried raspberries to both. The recipe should make 12 cupcakes, I made 11(!). Next time I will take smaller paper cases.
For cupcakes:
2-3 tbsp of cocoa
140 gr caster sugar
130 gr plain flour
1,5 tsp baking powder
40 gr soft butter
pinch of salt
120 ml milk
0,5 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
Preheat your oven gaz mark3/170C .
Whisk together in a bowl egg, milk and vanilla extract.
In a mixer bowl mix together the rest of the ingredients till well combined, slowly add the egg and milk mixture to it.Add half of freeze-dried raspberries. Mix for a further 2-3 min, don't overbeat it.

Spoon the mixture into the paper cases, 2/3 full.

Bake for 20-30 min, check after 20 min with a wooden skewer or a toothpick. When the cupcakes are ready it's clean.

Let them cool down in the oven for 15 min, then take them out.

Whilst the cakes are cooling make the frosting.

300 gr icing sugar(sifted)

50 gr soft butter

125 gr cream cheese

Beat the sugar and butter together, add the cream cheese and rest of the raspberries and mix for good 5 min.

Make sure your cupcakes have completely cooled down before decorating. 

Let the icing set for about 15 minutes, enjoy them fresh!