Red swirl cupcakes
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.
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