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Valentine coconut sprinkles cupcakes

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:50:17 +0000

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.

Balloon heart cupcakes

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:24:03 +0000

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 cupcakes

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:58:27 +0000

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.”

Lips cupcakes for Valentine’s Day

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:29:01 +0000

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.

Valentine’s candy corn cupcakes

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:14:14 +0000

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!

Valentine XO hugs and kisses cupcakes

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:00:04 +0000

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!

Red swirl cupcakes

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:33 +0000

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.

Heart cupcakes (piped)

admin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:00:00 +0000

It’s easier than you think to pipe icing hearts on top of your cupcakes!
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted pink; premade tube of red icing and round tip OR red icing in pastry bag with round tip such as #3.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake pink. To make the left half of the heart, squeeze red icing from tip at 90 degree angle on cupcake so it forms a blob, and then (while easing up on the squeeze power), move downward and stop squeezing before you pull away. Then do the same for the right half of the heart. If your heart has too much of a “seam,” wet a small paintbrush and ease the edges together.

Valentine’s Day heart sprinkle cupcakes

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:00:29 +0000

Use your imagination with these simple Valentine cupcakes featuring a heart outline with sprinkles inside. Try varying the icing colors and style of sprinkles for variety.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); frosting tinted pink; red writing icing OR pastry bag with icing tinted red and #3 tip OR cut corner off sandwich bag and use that to pipe icing tinted red; sprinkles.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake pink. Pipe heart shaped outline in red. Carefully fill in center with sprinkles.

Heartbeat cupcakes

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:00 +0000

These cupcakes are meant to represent a heartbeat (like on an EKG), which could work for Valentine’s Day or for an office party in a hospital or other health care setting. These are truly cupcakes with a lot of heart.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); chocolate frosting; red writing icing or red icing in pastry bag, or just cut corner off a sandwich bag and use that for piping.
How to Make It: Frost cupcakes with chocolate icing. Pipe (draw) line zigzagging up and down for heartbeat. If you make a whole batch of these, try having a different EKG “reading” on each one.