Comments on: Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Fresh Raspberry Frosting

By: Sam Merritt

Sam Merritt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:38:36 +0000

In reply to Linda. Thank you so much for trusting my recipe, Linda! I'm so glad they were such a hit! Congratulations to your daughter. :)

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:29:21 +0000

I had made these previously so I knew how good they are and how pretty! Made these for my daughter’s bridal shower today. The recipe made 48 “mini” cupcakes baked for 12 minutes.

By: Sam Merritt

Sam Merritt — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:49:31 +0000

In reply to Melissa. Thank you so much for trying my recipe, Melissa! I'm so glad you enjoyed these cupcakes so much! :)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:49:18 +0000

These cupcakes were delicious! I used Ghiradelli 70% dark chocolate, and I didn’t have the dark cocoa powder so I just used regular. They still had a deep chocolate flavor! The buttercream was a light raspberry flavor, and was very good! It was my first time branching out from vanilla, chocolate or marshmallow buttercream, and making the raspberry sauce was pretty easy. Next time I may try it with a bit more of the raspberry sauce for more raspberry flavor. I tried adding some of the seeds back in, and wasn’t a fan, so I’ll leave them out next time. But these were really good!! I will definitely be making them again!

By: Sam Merritt

Sam Merritt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:41:21 +0000

In reply to Jessica Case. I hope you loved them, Jessica! :)

By: Jessica Case

Jessica Case — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:17:50 +0000

I made dark chocolate cupcakes with fresh raspberry frosting last week.

By: Emily @ Sugar Spun Run

Emily @ Sugar Spun Run — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:40:05 +0000

In reply to Allie. We're so happy you enjoyed the recipe, Allie!

By: Allie

Allie — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:53:56 +0000

Delicious and not too hard. But very impressive outcome and rich flavors.

By: Emily @ Sugar Spun Run

Emily @ Sugar Spun Run — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:51:49 +0000

In reply to Selina. Hi Selina! It should color just fine. We'd recommend gel food coloring for the most potent results :)

By: Selina

Selina — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:54:16 +0000

I’m making these for October Birthdays at work and plan to add red food coloring to the frosting to make it more on theme fir Halliween. Hoping the food coloring doesn’t effect the frosting’s texture too much.

By: Sisy

Sisy — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 03:14:50 +0000

Delicioso 😋 hermosa textura y elegancia

By: Sam Merritt

Sam Merritt — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:33:55 +0000

In reply to Tamisyn Grantz. Hi Tamisyn! This is the dark cocoa powder not the black cocoa powder. :)

By: Tamisyn Grantz

Tamisyn Grantz — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:25:05 +0000

Good morning!

These look amazing! For the “dark cocoa powder” are you referring to something like Hershey’s Special Dark or the black cocoa powder I am starting to see in lots of recipes (sadly, not lots of stores…).

Looking forward to trying these!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:18:52 +0000

In reply to Linda. Hi Linda! Sorry for the confusion! I had updated the recipe and forgot to remove that one line in the description. I have updated it. It does not have any cream cheese in it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:15:16 +0000

The description indicates there is cream cheese in the icing, but the ingredients don’t include it. Is there supposed to be cream cheese? Regardless, another excellent recipe!

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:48:25 +0000

The flavor of these cupcakes are noteworthy. They really do pair powerfully well together. Every bite I took I was surprised at how good it was. While not the easiest to make, they were still doable and delicious (especially after a few seconds heated in the microwave).

I don’t think I did the melting of the chocolate or the raspberry reduction right, based on the end result descriptions in the recipe, but miraculously they still taste great. And I overfilled my cupcake tins, which didn’t work well for me as they do grow quite a bit…2/3 is 2/3, not 3/4 😀 oops.

Thanks, Sam!

By: Emily @ Sugar Spun Run

Emily @ Sugar Spun Run — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:24:55 +0000

In reply to Lois Luckovich. Yum! We love that idea

By: Lois Luckovich

Lois Luckovich — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 04:52:49 +0000

Yummy. A variation on this would be blackberry frosting. A friend of mine made chocolate cupcakes with blackberries in them after a day of blackberry picking and they were great

By: Camille Herbel

Camille Herbel — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:07:11 +0000

In reply to Emily @ Sugar Spun Run. I made these cup cakes and they came out amazing! With the extra batter i made small cake balls.

By: Emily @ Sugar Spun Run

Emily @ Sugar Spun Run — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:47:09 +0000

In reply to Ella. Hi Ella! We haven't tried it ourselves, but you will probably need to double the recipe for a 2-layer cake. Enjoy

By: Ella

Ella — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:14:32 +0000

Hi Sam Is there enough batter to make a 2 layered cake? And enough frosting for in between the layers/ around the cake and to decorate ? Thanks Ella

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 01:23:28 +0000

In reply to Katie A.. Hi Katie! I haven't tried it, but I think it could work. Let me know how it goes! :)

By: Katie A.

Katie A. — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:44:15 +0000

Hi Sam! Can I substitute strawberries for raspberries in this recipe? It’s strawberry season here in MN. Thank you! Love your recipes!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:57:05 +0000

In reply to Joanna. I am so glad you enjoyed them so much, Joanna! This recipe should work to make into a cake. :)

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 20 May 2021 17:53:28 +0000

Perfect recipe for chocolate lovers. Its so fudgy and delicious especially after chilling. Followed the recipe to the tee with mini cupcakes. The cupcake can be a little crumbly but it very moist and fudgy. I think a lot of it happens from mixing the chocolate, cocoa and milk mixture. Im not a raspberry lover and thought of going out of my comfort flavours. The icing was very tasty with the crunch from a few of the raspberry seeds that i added after straining as mentioned. I used frozen raspberries. Will be definitely repeating this recipe. Not sure if it can be done as a cake but the mini cupcakes gave it the perfect delicate look.. i got around 36 cupcakes and froze 10 for a rainy day 🤭