Raspberry Delight

Since I am already off this week, I figured I might as well just stick with it!
I purchased some mini spring form pans a few weeks ago to continue with personal deserts, I'm not certain if it is the idea of getting to make deserts, getting to work with the kids, or seeing how cute little deserts really look ( guess I like anything baby size!).  I think I will go with working with the kids.

My first attempt with the mini pans was to make raspberry filled chocolate covered cake.

Here is the mini cake pans - cute aren't they?

I started with a normal cake mix, we decided to do half marble and half chocolate...these flavors are favorites in my house.

After filling the mini pans half way with the yellow batter, I mixed up the remaining batter with the cocoa (as instructions say) and swirled the chocolate batter into the yellow to make the marble.

These baked for about 15 minutes, I then popped them out and cooked the chocolate batter the same way.

Here is what they looked like after cooked.

I then spread the Rasberry filling on the

After topping the raspberry covered cake it was then topped with the chocolate cake to form the layers.

Here came the hard part, I made the mistake of adding a little too much filling on a few (see above) which made spreading the frosting a little challenging...but of course with a little patience it can be done.

I then garnished each mini cake with fresh raspberries making an almost picture perfect desert!