Here are a couple of different kinds of cupcakes that you can make for Valentine's Day to suit cholate lovers or vanilla fans. For the chocoalte ones, I just used Duncan Hines Devils Food cake mix & made Chocolate Buttercream Frosting as well as regular Buttercream tinted pink w/food coloring. My Mom had given me a silicone cupcake pan with heart-shaped cupcake molds. I don't recommend the silicone because it's too hard to get the cupcakes out without some sticking to the silicone pan. Wish they had a saline version -Ha Ha. This is why in the pic, some are regular round cupcakes & some are heart-shaped. I made these a couple of years ago & then the next year, made the vanilla w/pink & white frosting. Anyway, I spread the Chocolate Buttercream on the cupcakes & then piped various designs on them like hearts, swirls etc. I used a star tip #18 for these decorations because you can do a lot of things with the little icing stars connected & it looks cute. Ususally I would use the star tip 21 but, these cupcakes were a little bit small so, I wanted smaller stars. I fun just doing different designs & stuff. The next year was a little more simple w/the pink & white mini-cupcakes. I used vanilla and strawberry frostings from a can. I didn't have to tint any pink icing this way but, they didn't taste as great as with homemade icing. I was still able to pipe the icing w/my decorating tools but, it was a lot less work than making the icing from scratch too.
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