Anybody making cupcakes for Valentine's Day? Would you please share your recipe with us?

making the bleeding heart cupcakes from epicurious

20 glass marbles or small balls of tinfoil

1 recipe batter for White Cupcakes

2 to 3 cups strawberry jelly or smooth strawberry jam

1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting

Red and blue food coloring

Pastry bag and medium round tip (optional)

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Preparation1. Line cupcake tins with paper liners. Fill the liners two-thirds full with the batter. Place 1 marble or tinfoil ball between each liner and the tin. This will make a dent in your cupcake when it bakes to make it heart-shaped. Bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe . If you are using marbles, be careful when removing the cupcakes from the tins because the marbles will be very hot.

2. With a small paring knife, cut out a circle about the size of a dime in the center of each cupcake, going about two thirds of the way in. Pull the little plug of cake out. Cut off the top of this piece (about 1/2 inch thick) and eat or discard the bottom. Use a teaspoon or a squeeze bottle to fill the hole partway with the strawberry jelly "blood." Put the little cake plug back in. Continue with the rest of the hearts.

3. Put one third of the frosting into two separate bowls. Color one bowl of frosting with the red food coloring. Tint the other bowl of the frosting blue. Tint the remaining two thirds pink.

4. Frost the cupcakes with the pink frosting. Make it super smooth by dipping a butter or frosting/palette knife in a bowl of hot water and smoothing it over the top. With the pastry bag or a knife, use the red and blue frosting to make veins on the hearts

white cupcake recipe

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cups unsalted butter, softened

1 3/4 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 1/4 cups whole milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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Preparation1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare cupcake tins as directed as directed in the recipe you are following.

2. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.

3. In a separate, larger bowl, cream the butter. Gradually add the sugar, creaming until light and fluffy.

4. Add the eggs one at a time, and beat well after each addition.

5. In a small bowl, combine the milk and vanilla.

6. To the butter mixture, add about one quarter of the flour mixture and mix well. Add about one quarter of the milk mixture and mix well. Continue alternating the flour mixture and milk mixture, beating after each addition until smooth.

7. Pour the batter into the cupcake tins. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the cake springs back when touched.

8. Remove from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes, then turn the cupcakes out of the tins and onto a rack to finish cooling completely.

Hi,

I make my favourite cupcakes using the Betty Crocker cherry supreme mix as you cannot beat that flavour! I frost them with the Betty Crocker cream cheese frosting in the container and these cupcakes are absolutely scrumptious! I don't care what anyone says, you can make as many recipes from scratch as you want but they won't be this combination and they are perfect for Valentines' Day! You could add some red food coloring to the frosting and mix it together before frosting them or just put one of those heart-shaped candies on the top of each one after they're frosted! Easy and absolutely delicious!!! Enjoy!

VALENTINE CUPCAKES a million a million/2 c. flour a million c. sugar a million/4 c. cocoa, sifted a million/2 tsp. salt a million tbsp. baking soda a million c. water a million/3 c. oil a million tsp. vanilla a million tbsp. vinegar a million (8 oz..) pkg. cream cheese a million egg a million/2 c. sugar blend all components nicely. Pour batter into cupcake pans. Bake at 350 tiers for 30 minutes. ICING: blend cream cheese, a million egg and a million/2 cup sugar. blend nicely. unfold on cupcakes.

I'm making cream-filled chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing.

The recipe is available at: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/monogrammed-cr...

I decorate them to look like Hostess cupcakes. Everyone is fooled at first, until they taste them. Everyone thinks they taste much better. Yummy!

Being somebody who loves to bake cakes from scratch, I love homemade cake recipes.

I like rose Levy Birnbounds yellow cake recipe, 6 larege egg yolks (reserve whites for frosting) one cup of milk,3 cups sifted cake flour one and a half cups of sugar one tbsp plus 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tps salt 12 tbsp of unsalted butter.

Directions

Combine yolds and 1/4 a cup of the milk and vanilla then combine dry ingredients and add the softened butter, then add the rest of the milk.

This recipes is great and moist.

Put in cupcake papers, and top with frosting when cooled (some people prefer powdered sugar) Her frosting is made with whites but I would half it.

10 oz of semis sweet or bittersweet chocolate (she recomends bitter) 2 cups butter softened 4 egg whites half a cup of the whites (whip them first so you could scoop it out) and a cup of sugar

This is the full recipe, but I would actually half it.

Or the toll house chocolate butter cream frosting, on the back of the toll house cocoa. Any butter cream is good, or any kind of frosting you like. You could use white butter cream and add red food coloring, or add red coloring to the cake recipe, just a few drops to make it red or pink. If you would like try the egg white recipe that I gave you, but you are worried about the raw whites, pastarize them by cooking in a double broiler, but I like the egg white recipe cause you could use most of the whites taken out of the cake.

Or carrot cupcakes

maybe make both, this is a delicous recipe that I made and a variation of pumpkin cake recipe I found on the Internet.

I like to cook and purea the carrots but you could grind them with a cheese grader.

Ingredients

* 1 cup vegetable oil

* 3 eggs

* 2 cups of carrots (recommend broiling and blending it)

* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

* 2 1/2 cups white sugar

* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

* 1 teaspoon baking soda

* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

* 1 teaspoon ground allspice

* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

* 1 teaspoon ground cloves

* 1/4 teaspoon salt

* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (that is optional and since nuts are expensive, you might want to elimitate them and perhaps replace them with raisins if you like.)

And of course top with any cream cheese frosting recipe (or again powdered sugar is good too, but frosting is needed for decorating of course) can even add red food coloring to the cream cheese. Most cream cheese frosting recipes call for one brick of cream cheese to about one cup of powdered sugar sifted, maybe a tbsp of milk and tsp vanilla. Some recipes call for a stick of butter too.

For both recipes you could add sweethearts or red sprinkles to decorate.

Also the cake recipe on the toll house cocoa or the bakers chocolate recipes are good. Good luck. I love to bake, so any questions, ask me.\

For the first cake recipe, I would bake it for about 10 minutes and check, maybe about 15 for the second one.

Well any cake recipe could be used for a cupcake, so basically any cake recipe you love would be good.

Do what I do... buy plain cupcakes from the shops and decorate the hell into them with multi coloured icing 8)