What I find confusing is that the space inside the ants/raisins should expand as well. Why do we not experience this expansion locally?
Back to the balloon analogy, the surface of the balloon is expanding, even under the ant's feet. But the ant doesn't grow.
So back to the cupcake analogy, the raisins are the whole galaxy groups.
Also:
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-why-we-arent-e...
"As physicist Richard Price once put it, “Your waistline may be spreading, but you can’t blame it on the expansion of the universe.”"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8082-cosmic-expansion...
But that might not be the case for forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip