Valentine’s Day is filled with all sorts of sweet treats, so this year I made some Valentine Swirl Cupcakes for friends and family. I found this simple recipe over at Cooking with Sugar via Pinterest. She makes beautiful swirl bundt cakes which would have worked here as well, but I needed a lot of individual cakes to give away, so I went with cupcakes.
The cool thing about this recipe is that you mix up regular cake mix and add dye of different colors to make your swirl. There’s no stirring or swirling by hand, just pour cake batter in, one color right on top of the other. The swirls make themselves!
After these baked and cooled, I iced them with a simple cream cheese frosting that I tinted pink, then topped everything off with some cute heart sprinkles.
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- alternate tablespoonfuls of tinted cake batter into cups, do not stir.
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- Bake according to package directions, then cool.
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- Ice with desired frosting.
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- Look at the cool swirl pattern inside!
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- Each one’s different!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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These are really cool.
Dawn B. recently posted..Liebster Award
What a fun and easy idea! I love the awesome random swirls. My daughter has asked me to make cupcakes tomorrow, maybe I’ll do this cool swirl technique!
Andrea the Kitchen Witch recently posted..Chicken and dumplings
Lovely and delicious Valentine’s Day treat… great photos! =)
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These are gorgeous! I love the swirl. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Very cute – hope you have a great Valentine’s Day.
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They look so pretty! And sound yummy too! Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day!
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