Chocolate Raspberry Cups

The Story Behind this Decadent Treat!

Once upon a time, there was a chocolatier who lived in Switzerland.  Every day he would come to work and find handfulls of raspberries tossed toward his bowls of chocolate.  After a week and a half of the nonsense, he furiously exclaimed, "Who are the foolish beings who continue to throw raspberries at my bowls of chocolate!?  If one ever lands in one of those, it'll be sure to ruin the whole batch!  The swiss cocoa I use is mighty expensive, and I sure don't want to see any of it wasted!"  On Thursday, he arrived at work at exactly 7:45am. and caught two innocent looking children throwing handfulls of raspberries at his chocolate.  "Who are you, and why do you continuously toss these berries at my chocolate?", he asked.  They quickly answered, "Sir, we never ment to harm anything, we just thought that raspberries might taste wonderful with your dark chocolate."  "Well then", he said doubtfully, "Lets just see about your little theory."  He snatched up a raspberry, scooped up some melted dark chocolate, put the raspberry on top, and took a taste.  "Oh my!", he exclaimed, "This is just wonderful, wonderful!  Come back at half past two, and I'll have a nice chocolate raspberry treat for you!"  The children left and he promptly began coming up with a bunch of chocolate raspberry recipes, all of which he thought were astounding, but there was one in particular that was his favorite...he called them Chocolate Raspberry Cups.  Two ingredients, so simple, yet so delicious.  He could not wait for the children to return so that they could taste his creation.

And this is what he came up with...

What you will need: 

• frozen or fresh raspberries 
• dark chocolate (anything 70% or above, I used 72%)
• a muffin pan and muffin cups 

Directions:

Let frozen raspberries thaw out a bit (if using fresh raspberries, skip this step). Smoosh raspberries up with a fork.  Melt chocolate in the microwave.  Fill only the bottom layer of the cupcake liner with a bit of melted chocolate.  Put the cupcake liner with the chocolate in it in the freezer for a few minutes until it hardens up.  Take it out and spread a layer of mashed raspberries onto the hardened chocolate.  Pour the rest of the melted chocolate over the raspberries and freeze until hardened.

enjoy!