Valentines Cupcakes

The pink mixture

Jam filled cakes

  Today I made some strawberry cupcakes and added some pink colouring to make them look romantic for Valentines Day. After cooking the cakes for 20 minutes I took them out to cool down and rolled some red fondant icing and cut some large red hearts and some tiny red hearts and stuck them on the right hand side of the large heart. I cored the pink cupcakes and spooned a small amount of strawberry jam in before trying a new piping technique. I made some pink buttercream and used a rose petal nozzle to pipe ribbons of icing around the edge of the cupcakes and gradually built up the icing before placing the hearts on the top of the cakes.

The ribbon pipe work

The Finished romantic cupcakes