Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to splurge a little and go all out with the sweet treats. What better way to show your love than whipping up a delicious sweet concoction in your own kitchen! We have the perfect recipes for you to try, also check out these baking tips as well!
Tips for making the quickest, moistest, easiest homemade cupcakes:
* Add 1/4 cup sour cream to your boxed cake mix ingredients for extra moist cupcakes
* Replace 1/2 of the required water addition to boxed chocolate cake mix with coffee (hot or cold). It helps draw out the extra creamy flavors in chocolate, and doesn’t leave a coffee taste.
* If you’re making buttercream, place your beater and stainless bowl in the freezer for 5 minutes before using. This helps to make your buttercream frosting extra creamy.
* Add an extra egg yolk for super moist and sweeter cupcakes.
* Replace water with milk (of your choice) for creamier cupcakes.
* Use a quart or gallon sized Ziploc bag with one corner cut off, if you don’t have piping bags and tips
Valentine’s Day Cupcakes & Sweet Treats Recipes
Marashino Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes-You will love these sweet little cupcakes! They are light and fun and even have a surprise in the middle!
Dark Chocolate and Cherry Cupcakes-Dark chocolate is perfect when paired with a tart and sweet fruit like maraschino cherries! You will love this winning combinations! For an added bonus—you can add coffee to your chocolate batter to give it even more flavor!
Chocolate Merlot Cupcakes– Are you a wine lover? You don’t have to have a huge appreciation for wine to love these cupcakes, but if you do, you will definitely want to give this recipe a try! The mix of this delicious chocolate cupcake and creamy merlot frosting are the perfect pairing!
Raspberry Shortcake Cupcakes– This recipe is super fresh and light, and there is even a surprise in the middle! These cupcakes taste like a raspberry shortcake, but in a cupcake form!
Cherry BonBon Cookies– These cookies look beautiful, but they also have a surprise inside of them! The dough is simple to make, but taste testers will be begging for the recipe! The cherry center and the cherry/white chocolate frosting are delicious surprises!
Tapatio Hot Sauce Cupcakes– These cupcakes are even better than you would expect. They are the perfect cupcake for the hot and spicy fan! The creamy, milky chocolate cupcake is seriously complimented with the kick of hot sauce! These are a must try!
Strawberry Shortcake Rice Krispies– Your mouth will water just thinking about the flavor combination of tart strawberries, sweet whipped cream and buttery shortcake! This is a quick, easy and delicious shortcut to strawberry + white chocolate!
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies– Chocolate covered cherries are super popular, especially around Valentine’s Day, and we aren’t surprised! Not only are they delicious, but they also look fabulous as well! These chocolate covered cherry cookies present super well! They are a mouth watering twist to the traditional chocolate covered cherry.
These sound so yummy. I really like the flavor and look of the dark chocolate cherry one.
These cupcakes look amazing! My favorite is the Marashino Cherry Cheesecake.
Chocolate covered cherry cookies sound amazing!
Before we know it, Valentines Day will be here and so much fun to make any of these treats!
These all look so delicious! I really want to try the raspberry shortcake cupcakes.