All Ruffled Up Valentine's Day Cupcakes

Piled high with ruffles and rosettes, these sweet Valentine's Day cupcakes are a great way to say "I love you!" In different shades of pink, these cupcakes also sport a little candy heart on top for a crowning touch. These cupcakes are also great for work or classroom treats!

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite yellow cupcake recipe or mix
Creamy Peach Icing Color, 1 oz.
Creamy Peach Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz. $2.52
Buttercream Frosting
Mini Heart Icing Decorations, 81-Count
Rose Icing Color, 1 oz. - Pink Food Coloring

Tools
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 18
Recipe Right Muffin Pan, 12-Cup Non-Stick Muffin Pan
Perfect Results Premium Non-Stick Cooling Rack, 16 x 10-Inch
Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count
Gold Foil Cupcake Liners, 24-Count
Gold Foil Cupcake Liners, 24-Count $3.07
Standard Coupler

Instructions

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Bake cupcakes Bake and cool cupcakes according to pan directions.
Prepare buttercream icing Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Divide icing into three bowls, 1 1/4 cup icing per bowl. Tint one bowl light peach with Creamy Peach icing color. Tint one bowl dark pink with Creamy Peach and Rose icing colors. Leave remaining bowl white.
Prepare decorating bags Prepare decorating bag with tip 104 and fill with white icing. Insert couplers in two remaining bags. Attach tip 104 to one bag and fill with pink icing. Attach tip 18 to other bag and fill with peach icing.
Decorate cupcakes Using white icing and ruffle technique, pipe two rows of ruffles on each cupcake. On half of the cupcakes, use pink icing to pipe two rows of ruffles on top of the white ruffles. Top with peach rosettes.
Switch tip 18 to pink bag and tip 104 to peach bag. Using peach icing, pipe two rows of ruffles on top of white ruffles on remaining cupcakes and top with pink rosettes.
Top cupcakes with heart icing decorations.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe A Rosette
Learn how to pipe beautiful rosettes, big and small, to add charming floral accents. Rosettes are a great way to create quick decorations. Different tips create different petal effects. Rosettes can be used to add a simple floral accent to a dessert, or cover a cake and cupcakes.
How to Pipe Ruffles
Ruffles add a decorative top border to your cakes or cupcakes. Pipe ruffles around plaques or to trim doll dresses or bonnets.