How to Make Powdered Sugar Heart Cupcakes

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So this post was supposed to be up over a month ago and life simply got in the way. Well, to be honest, my very challenging marketing class got in the way of all my blogging fun. So I posted a question on Instagram to see if you would still like to see my belated Valentine’s Day projects and everyone answered yes. So, Happy belated Valentine’s Day – may you be extra prepared when it rolls around in 12 months!

I love to be in the kitchen baking. Part of that is my ridiculous sweet tooth and the other part is that baking actually helps me destress. When I have a particularly challenging day, you better believe there will be baked goods in the office the next day. Good for stress levels, bad for waistlines.

I wanted to whip up something cute for Valentine’s Day and decided to make Powdered Sugar Heart Cupcakes!

I started with a simple box cake mix and followed the directions for mixing. Then I dyed it red with over a dozen drops of food coloring. I wanted these cupcakes RED and a red velvet cake mix just wasn’t going to cut it.

I baked my cupcakes and used this technique I found on Pinterest to get them to puff up just right. I also bake them in plain white wrappers and then put that inside a colored wrapper so the colored one doesn’t look moist from the baking.

I let them cool overnight, since I wanted to use powdered sugar on top – any moisture in the cupcake will soak up the sugar and then this won’t work. Trust me, I know from experience.