Spread the Love

My mom was looking through some articles today on the Internet about cupcakes. Did you know that pink is the most commonly asked for icing color?

Starbursts

I has some extra buttercream so I tried to experiment using different methods. I thought this technique looked like little starbursts.

Topped with a Big Heart (Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes)

I usually try to stick with traditional flavors like chocolate and vanilla. However, I thought I would try these Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes. It is a yellow cake with a strawberry jelly center. The icing is peanut butter/butter cream. Although I am not crazy about the color of the icing, they taste pretty good. For Valentine's Day I added a fondant heart topper.

Loving Sprinkles

What makes these cupcakes special is the cupcake liners. I found them at Wegman's and just thought they were neat!  The vanilla buttercream was colored pink to celebrate Valentine's Day. The topper is either a white chocolate heart or a fondant heart.

Drizzled with Love

These cupcakes are vanilla. The white icing is raspberry buttercream. It's very sweet!  White chocolate is drizzled on top before placing the fondant heart topper.

Valentine's Day Cupcakes

The hearts were created the same way the snowflakes were created below. Using this pink white-chocolate, I created the hearts on wax paper and then moved them to the cupcakes once the chocolate was hard enough.