Valentine's Day Cupcakes
Our Valentine's Day Cupcakes are so much fun and bring love to anyone you share with!
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients
- 2½ cups flour
- 1 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup butter soft, plus 4 tbsp.
- ¼ cup softened shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 TBSP Red Velvet extract
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tbsp. Red gel food color
Cream cheese frosting
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 4 C powdered sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4-6 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- Pink gel food coloring
- 1 large piping bag fitted with large star tip
- 1 medium piping bag fitted with #17 tip
- 22 mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups foil unwrapped
- Pink and White Heart Sprinkles
Instructions
Cupcake Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake Pam with liners
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt together
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy
- Mix in the egg, vanilla, red velvet extract and red gel food coloring until combined
- Alternating between the dry ingredients and milk, Gradually mix in the both ingredients into the mixture until combined
- Scoop batter into the cupcake pans, filling 3/4 of the way
- Bake in the oven for 21 minutes
- Allow to cool completely
Frosting Directions
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and heavy whipping cream until smooth and stiff peaks form
- Scoop 1 C of frosting into a bowl and mix in two drops of pink gel food coloring
- Scoop the pink frosting into the medium piping bag
- Scoop the remaining cream cheese frosting into the large piping bag
- Frost the cooled cupcakes and sprinkle some pink and white heart sprinkles
- Unwrap the foil from Reese’s peanut butter cups frost the peanut butter cups with the pink frosting and sprinkle some pink and white hearts on the frosting
- Carefully place into the top center of the white frosting
- Enjoy!