vanilla cupcakes with raspberry filling and milk chocolate glaze

Yesterday was cupcake day, and I wanted to try out my first filled cupcake ever. I got the recipe here http://mingmakescupcakes.yolasite.com/ (see cupcake 29) , and tried to follow it but somehow it just didn't work out as expected...

The result was good, but no matter how hard I tried I just could not follow the instructions. The first and biggest problem was this:

The recipe asks for you to beat room temperature butter straight into the flour. As you can imagine, all this produced was a big mess. So, I ended up doing all kinds of crazy things to get the butter into the flour, and in the end I will say this: just put all the ingredients into the bowl at the same time and mix the heck out of them :) Problem solved.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
110 grams butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup raspberry jam

Directions
Preheat oven to 200 celsius
Sift the flour baking powder and salt into a big bowl. Add everything else and beat on high until everything is nicely mixed.
Grease your cupcake tin and fill the liners 1/3 full of batter.
Drop a small spoonful of jam into each cupcake.
Cover with batter.
Bake for 15 minutes or until browned on top and kitchen smells delicious :)

Frosting
50 grams of butter, melted
3 tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup milk

Directions
Mix the cocoa and sugar in a bowl.
Pour over the melted butter and remaining ingredients.
Beat on low until well mixed.
Dip cupcake into the glaze and top with sprinkles.
Enjoy!