My 10-month-old little guy, Brycen, was happy to receive his Mickey and heart-shaped sucker for his first Valentine's Day.***
And how about a special treat to help celebrate the day? Throughout the week I've shared all sorts of fun ideas for this day of love. Our final v-day treat comes from allrecipes.com. My friend Kristen gave me this tip last week, and it's a good one! They're called Sweetheart Cupcakes and they're so cute. The fun thing about these cupcakes is you can get creative with them for other holidays and make them all sorts of colors.
image via allrecipes.com Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1 1/4 c. water
- 1/3 c. vegetable oil
- 3 egg whites
- 8 drops red food coloring
- 2 drops raspberry candy oil (or raspberry extract found in grocery store)
- 1 container of white frosting
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line your muffin tin with cupcake liners.
- Beat cake mix, water, oil, and egg whites on low speed for 30 seconds, then on medium for 2 minutes until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with the white batter; set aside.
- Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to to make the batter pink, then stir in the raspberry oil. Pour 1/3 of that pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set aside.
- Mix more food coloring (about 4 more drops) into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is a red color and pour the batter into a resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner off the bag, stick the open tip into the center of each cupcake liner of white batter and squeeze in about 2 tablespoons of red batter.
- Cut a corner off the bag with pink batter, stick the open tip in the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon of pink batter into each cupcake liner.
- Bake the layered cupcakes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.
