How to Make Sweetheart Cupcakes - A Step-by-Step Guide

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, and what better way to do so than with a batch of homemade Sweetheart Cupcakes? These delicious treats are perfect for sharing with your loved ones, whether it's your significant other, family, or friends. With their pretty pink frosting and heart-shaped decorations, these cupcakes are sure to make anyone's heart flutter.

Making these Sweetheart Cupcakes is easier than you might think. The recipe is simple and straightforward, making it a g...

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Ingredients

  • 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
  • 1 ¼ cups water
  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil
  • 3 egg whites
  • 8 drops red food coloring
  • 2 drops raspberry candy oil

Information

  • Prep Time: 20 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Additional Time: 1 hr
  • Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins
  • Servings: 24
  • Yield: 2 dozen cupcakes

  • Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.
  • Beat the cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and egg whites together on low speed for 30 seconds, then on medium for 2 minutes, until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with white batter; set aside.
  • Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to make the batter pink. Stir in the raspberry oil. Pour 1/3 of pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set aside.
  • Mix more food coloring into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is an orange/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 cup of white batter and squeeze in about two tablespoons of red batter.
  • Cut the corner off the bag with the pink batter, stick the open tip into the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon pink batter into each cup.
  • Bake the layered cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.
  • Nutrition

    120 cal.

    • Total Fat: 5g
    • Saturated Fat: 1g
    • Sodium: 149mg
    • Total Carbohydrate: 17g
    • Dietary Fiber: 0g
    • Total Sugars: 12g
    • Protein: 1g
    • Vitamin C: 0mg
    • Calcium: 42mg
    • Iron: 0mg
    • Potassium: 32mg