These Cupid Valentine Cupcakes are just in time for Valentine’s Day! They’re a super cute idea that just happens to be totally delicious as well.
If you’re looking for Valentine Cupcakes, look no further than these! Perfect for at-home dessert or to make and share with friends.
Valentine Cupcakes
Cupid Valentine Cupcakes
Do you have someone in your life that you’re wanting to treat? Why not make them up a batch of these delicious Valentine’s Day cupcakes? They’re tasty and delicious and crazy-easy to make!
Look how cute they are!
Don’t pay someone to deliver cupcakes when you can make them all yourself. Your kids will love joining in on the fun by baking these sweet cupid cupcakes with you.
How to Make Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Some of the ingredients you will need to make these Cupid Cupcakes is in this picture below. However, I have the full ingredients and recipe to print out towards the bottom of the page.
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Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
This recipe only calls for a few ingredients and if you use a cake mix, it’s a total breeze! Cake mix recipes are so easy.
Ingredients needed:
For the cupcakes:
White cake mix + ingredients to make them**
¼ tsp pink gel food coloring
**Most cake mixes yield a total of 24 cupcakes. For this recipe, half the recipe/ingredients to bake 12 cupcakes
For the buttercream:
½ cup softened unsalted butter
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 tbsp milk
For the decorations:
12 small pretzel sticks
½ cup pink candy melts
4-5 oz. red rolling fondant
Mix cake batter according to the box’s directions. Add gel food coloring and mix it until the batter is completely tinted.
Scoop it into a muffin tin, lined with paper liners and bake according to the package’s directions.
Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before baking.
While the cupcakes cool, prepare the buttercream: In a large bowl, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk with an electric mixer. Start on low and gradually increase to high.
Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, scoop into a piping bag with Wilton tip #21 attached.
Frost each cupcake.
Valentine Cupcakes Decorating Ideas
Line a pan with wax paper. Knead rolling fondant until smooth.
Roll 24 fondant spheres, about one inch in size each.
To create a heart, press the bottom two fondant spheres together, pointing it at the end. Repeat to create 12 fondant hearts and set aside on half of the wax-paper-lined pan.
Line up 12 pretzel sticks on lined pan. In a small bowl, microwave pink candy melts in 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval.
Pour melted candy into a piping bag and cut out a small tip at the end.
Frost out 2 V-shapes on each pretzel stick and allow them to set for about 20 minutes.
Insert one pretzel stick into each cupcake, followed by the fondant heart.
Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Serve these Valentine cupcakes to your sweety or for a Valentine’s Day Party and enjoy!
Valentine Cupcakes
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Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- White cake mix + ingredients to make them**
- ¼ tsp pink gel food coloring
For the buttercream
- ½ cup softened unsalted butter
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
For the decorations
- 12 small pretzel sticks
- ½ cup pink candy melts
- 4-5 oz. red rolling fondant
Instructions
- Mix cake batter according to the box’s directions. Add gel food coloring and mix until batter is completely tinted.
- Scoop into a muffin tin, lined with paper liners and bake according to the package’s directions.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before baking.
- While the cupcakes cool, prepare the buttercream: in a large bowl, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk with an electric mixer. Start on low and gradually increase to high.
- Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, scoop into a piping bag with Wilton tip #21 attached.
- Frost each cupcake.
- Line a pan with wax paper. Knead rolling fondant until smooth.
- Roll 24 fondant spheres, about one inch in size each.
- To create a heart, press the bottom two fondant spheres together, pointing it at the end. Repeat to create 12 fondant hearts and set aside on half of the wax-paper-lined pan.
- Line up 12 pretzel sticks on lined pan. In a small bowl, microwave pink candy melts in 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval.
- Pour melted candy into a piping bag and cut out a small tip at the end.
- Frost out 2 V-shapes on each pretzel stick. Allow to set, about 20 minutes.
- Insert one pretzel stick into each cupcake, followed by the fondant heart.
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