Want to bake cute Valentine’s Day cupcakes that will be the hit of the dessert table this year? Learn how to make heart shaped cupcakes with the tutorial below.
The best part is that you don’t need to spend extra money to buy any special kitchen tools, or heart shaped cupcake pans. All you need is a regular muffin tin, some cupcake liners and either a marble, glass stone or a large ceramic bead to make these DIY heart shaped cupcakes.
Learn this easy trick with the tutorial below and surprise your friends and family with these festive heart cupcakes.
Tools to make these heart shaped cupcakes
To make these heart cupcakes you’ll need the following tools:
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- Regular muffin tin
- 12 Valentine’s Day cupcake liners
- 12 glass rocks, marbles or pie weights
- Cake mix
- Frosting
- Candies for decorating (eg. heart gum drops, peppermints, pearl sprinkles)
How to make heart shaped cupcakes
Valentine’s Day is all about hearts and love, so I wanted the cupcakes I was baking for Valentine’s Day to be heart shaped. Since I don’t have a heart-shaped silicone cupcake liners or a special heart shaped muffin pan, I had to improvise.
Fortunately it’s really easy to make heart shaped cupcakes!
Place your cupcake liners into your cupcake tin and then add a glass rock or marble to to each one to make it take on a heart shape. The marble stays in place while the cupcakes are cooking and the cupcakes take on the heart shape.
Fill your heart-shaped liners ⅔ of the way full with cupcake batter and bake until they are done (about 15 minutes). The marbles must be glass or ceramic to withstand the heat of the oven.
When the cupcakes are done, they will take on a rounded heart shape with an indentation on the top.
Note: Don’t overfill the muffin tins!
Be careful not to fill the cupcake liners too full – ⅔ full is about right. If you fill them any more, you will end up with the batter rising too much and either pushing the shape back to a circle or giving you a muffin top.
The photo below shoes muffins that were overfilled. They didn’t retain their shape as well as the ones that were only filled ⅔ full.
Time to decorate the heart cupcakes
You can choose a heart cupcake design that is as simple or elaborate as you like! Below are some design options.
Start by covering the top of the heart-shaped cupcakes with either plain buttercream frosting, red gel food coloring or a combination of both!
Since the cupcakes are rounded at the bottom, you can either keep your frosting away from the round edge so that the frosting is very heart-shaped, or you can cheat your frosting to bring it over the edges a bit like I did in this one.
Use peppermints
Now, you can start decorating your Valentine’s Day cupcakes! For a simple design, frost your Valentine’s cupcake with red frosting add a single peppermint to the center of the cupcake.
Heart gum drops
What says I love you better than heart shaped cupcakes decorated for Valentine’s Day with extra hearts? To make the design below frost the heart shaped cupcake with white frosting and put a heart gum drop in the center.
Pearl sprinkles
To make this heart shaped cupcake design, frost your cupcake with pink icing, and add a generous amount of pearl shaped sprinkles.
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How to Make a Heart Shaped Cupcake
These heart shaped cupcakes are a fun holiday treat. If you don't have a heart shaped cupcake tin, you can still make them with this easy trick.
Materials
- 12 Valentine's Day cupcake liners
- 12 glass rocks or marbles
- Muffin tin
- Cake mix
- Frosting
- Candies
Instructions
- Place the cupcake liners in the muffin tins.
- Add one glass rock or marble at the top of the cupcake liner and position it so that there is a slight opening at the top.
- Fill the cupcake liners ⅔ full of batter (don't overfill or you will lose the heart shape.)
- Bake as directed.
- Use frosting to cover the top of the cupcake, covering any imperfections in the shape of the heart.
- Add candies to the top to decorate.
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