Valentine's Day coconut sprinkles cupcake
Jazz up simple cupcakes by adding Valentine’s Day sprinkles to coconut! The combination makes for an attractive cupcake with taste and texture.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; pink frosting (I used Pillsbury’s canned Valentine’s Day frosting and it came with sprinkles in the lid); shredded coconut.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Sprinkle with coconut. Add Valentine sprinkles.
Heart balloon cupcake
These conversation heart cupcakes are incredibly fast to make, and depending on which heart messages you choose, can be customized for kids, sweethearts or anyone on Valentine’s Day!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; pink frosting; 3 conversation hearts; chocolate icing in a tube, or use a pasty bag and metal tip #1.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Arrange 3 hearts near top of cupcake. Use chocolate icing to “draw” balloon strings.
Valentine bear cupcake
Make these cute pink bear cupcakes for a Valentine’s Day party at your kid’s school, or for your sweetheart.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; frosting tinted pink (or just use Pillsbury’s Valentine frosting like I did); chocolate frosting (or black writing icing in a tube); 2 heart-shaped cinnamon candies; pastry bag and coupler; No. 12 metal tip; No. 5 metal tip; No. 1 metal tip. (No. 1 is for the eyes, nose and mouth.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Fit pastry bag with coupler and No. 12 metal tip and fill partway with pink icing. Squeeze in one spot near center of cupcake (don’t pull up) for bear head. Switch to No. 5 tip. Squeeze to create bear’s muzzle and ears. Use pastry bag and No. 1 tip to add features using chocolate icing. Add 2 heart-shaped red hots, points touching, for bow. For a girl bear, add a bow to her “hair.”
Plant a kiss with these Valentine’s Day cupcakes featuring a pair of fat, red lips.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); frosting tinted pink; red writing icing or red icing in pastry bag with round metal tip.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake pink. Use red writing icing to pipe lip shape on top of cupcake. Be sure to stop squeezing before you pull away to avoid sloppy lines.
Candy corn makes a re-appearance come Valentine’s Day, but in shades of pink rather than Halloween orange. Use it to make easy cupcakes with a tasty topping.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); frosting tinted pink; Valentine’s candy corn; red candy heart.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Immediately place candy corn end to end around rim of cupcake. Add heart candy to center of cupcake. That’s it!
Love cupcakes? Love hugs and kisses? Well, these XO cupcakes are for you. They’re very easy to make, even for kids. If you can’t find letter-shaped gel candies, cut out your own using fondant, fruit rolls or whatever you can think of.
What You Need: 2 or more cupcakes (baked and cooled); pink and white frosting; gel letters X and O.
How to Make Them: Frost cupcakes. Add gel letters. That’s it!
These pink and red cupcakes with a swirl design are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any day.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted pink; red writing icing or red icing in pastry bag with round tip #3; round red candy such as sour ball; toothpick.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake pink. Pipe small red circle near center top of cupcake. Pipe two or three more circles around this one. Using toothpick, pull red icing outward from center, wipe off toothpick, and then pull red icing upward from outermost ring. Alternate this technique all around the cupcake. (It’s a variation of a spider web.) Place red candy ball on top of cupcake.
