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Last Sunday was the partly international Mothers' Day, so me and my sister decided to bake raspberry white-chocolate cupcakes. Yummy :P We have a cooking book specialised on cupcake recipes. It's full of different varieties however as my sister had baked before exactly raspberry white-chocolate cupcakes, we decided to make them, because we had the required ingredients for them.

The recipe is quite simple, however as I almost never cook it was enough challenging. The ingredients are as follows (for around 12 cupcakes):

How they should look like

100 g butter
1 dl of milk
2 eggs
1,5 dl sugar
3,5 dl flour
1,5 teaspoonfull baking powder
2 teaspoonfull vanilla sugar
100 g white chocolate
100 g raspberries

Frosting:

0,5 dl whipping cream
1 tablespoonfull butter
100 g white-chocolate
(decoration requires fresh raspberries and chips of white-chocolate) 


First you do the frosting:

1.Whipping cream needs to be warmed almost until it boils in the pot.
2. Then you remove the pot from the stove and add the butter and white-chocolate in pieces.
3. Mix until it becomes flat and even and let it cool.

Then the pastry:

1.Melt the butter in the pot, add milk and leave it cool.
2.Froth the eggs and sugar in order that they become spongy lather and add the butter-milk mixture.
3. By this time you should have mixed the dry ingredients together. Then carefully add the groats or pieces of white-chocolate and mix them flat and even.
4. Insert the pastry into the cup cake leases and press a few raspberries inside each of them .
5. Bake them in the oven in 200 degrees for around 15 minutes.
6. Add the frosting on top of FULLY cooled cup cakes and decorate with raspberries and chips of chocolate.

   Book: Ihanat Kuppikakut
   Authors: Sanna Kiiski and Lee Ehnqvist

We tried to follow the recipe as much as we could though I had problems sometimes with the organisation in the kitchen as everything should be completed relatively fast. Alone it would've taken a lot more time than without help. I learned a new skill which was to bake cup cakes. It was the first time in my life but definitely not the last one. When I'll bake cup cakes for the next time I will try to do them alone and will definitely let them cool completely because this time we didn't let them cool enough which resulted the frosting to drip of from the lease and not spread out evenly. Also I might try make the cupcakes more flat like as the original picture shows. For the next time I'll make sure that there is plenty of fresh raspberries because this time we were lacking them and we had to use frozen ones but they were very good as well. However I'm very pleased with the taste because they were delicious (in my opinion). 

Here is the outcome:

M-M-MM.......