Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I hope I'm posting this in the right section, I think I am! I want to bake chocolate raspberry cupcakes tomorrow, but the recipes I have only use raspberry preserves - I don't have raspberry preserves, but I do have frozen raspberries and am wondering if I could use pureed raspberries instead of preserves without a problem. What do you think? Thank you for any help you can give me!

-Jamieanne
http://www.sweetestkitchen.com

If you cook the raspberries with some sugar and enough cornstarch to thicken, you should end up with a consistency similar to preserves.

Here is a recipe for raspberry filling that uses frozen raspberries and won't make your cupcakes soggy:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2503-25-Raspberry-Filling.html

HTH!

Thanks for the replies! Oh, I want to clarify too that the raspberry preserves are mixed into the cupcake batter, so it's not a separate filling or topping. That's the main reason I was concerned about using puree instead.