Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and the sweet treats will be flowing! We have a super yummy recipe for Valentine’s Day Cupcakes complete with X’s and O’s! The rich taste of dark chocolate combined with the vanilla buttercream icing is simply delicious! And you can’t deny that the redhot X’s and O’s are so much fun! Check out the recipe below. The fun Valentine’s Day Cupcakes would be super cute for class parties, home and family!
Valentine’s Day Cupcakes: X’s and O’s Recipe & Tutorial
Dark Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients:
1 cup butter – unsalted
2 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup Hershey’s dark cocoa powder
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole milk
Dark Chocolate Cupcake Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and line cupcake pans with paper liners.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar, butter and eggs until a light and fluffy consistency.
3. Add the baking powder, salt and cocoa and cream together until smooth.
4. Add 1/3 of the flour and stir until well combined. Add 1/2 of the milk and blend well.
5. Repeat step 4.
6. Add the remaining 1/3 of the flour and stir until combined.
7. Pour cupcake batter into greased and lined pans.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
9. Allow cupcakes to cool in their pans for 10 minutes.
10. Transfer cupcakes to wire rack for at least 30 minutes to complete cooling process.
Vanilla Buttercream Icing Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
2 Tablespoons cold milk
Garnish- 1/2 cup Red Hots candies
Candy hearts (optional)
Vanilla Buttercream Icing Directions:
1. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter.
2. Add half of the sugar and mix well on medium speed with a mixer.
3. Add the rest of the sugar and mix on medium speed until light and fluffy.
4. TIP- to thin icing, add 1 T milk and to thicken icing, add 1 T powdered sugar.
5. Using a decorating tip and disposable bag or Ziploc bag, pipe the frosting onto each cupcake.
6. Garnish with red hot candies in the shape of X’s, O’s and hearts. I used a few candy hearts to place in the middle of the hearts but this is optional.
Enjoy!
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- Dark Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter – unsalted
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup Hershey’s dark cocoa powder
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- Vanilla Buttercream Icing Ingredients:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons cold milk
- Garnish- ½ cup Red Hots candies
- Candy hearts (optional)
- Dark Chocolate Cupcake Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and line cupcake pans with paper liners.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar, butter and eggs until a light and fluffy consistency.
- Add the baking powder, salt and cocoa and cream together until smooth.
- Add ⅓ of the flour and stir until well combined. Add ½ of the milk and blend well.
- Repeat step 4.
- Add the remaining ⅓ of the flour and stir until combined.
- Pour cupcake batter into greased and lined pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow cupcakes to cool in their pans for 10 minutes.
- Transfer cupcakes to wire rack for at least 30 minutes to complete cooling process.
- Vanilla Buttercream Icing Directions:
- In a mixing bowl, cream the butter.
- Add half of the sugar and mix well on medium speed with a mixer.
- Add the rest of the sugar and mix on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- TIP- to thin icing, add 1 T milk and to thicken icing, add 1 T powdered sugar.
- Using a decorating tip and disposable bag or Ziploc bag, pipe the frosting onto each cupcake.
- Garnish with red hot candies in the shape of X’s, O’s and hearts. I used a few candy hearts to place in the middle of the hearts but this is optional.
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I would like to try these==thanks for the recipe
MISA says
Love this idea, so easy for the kids to do . what fun!!
These cupcakes are so cute and perfect for Valentines Day, thanks for sharing!
thanks for the recipe i cant wait to make these
This is a good recipe. I prefer cupcakes over cake. With cake, it goes stale before we can eat it all.
These will be perfect for the Valentine’s Day party at my daughter’s school! Thank you for sharing!!
I love making cupcakes, and these are cute and look easy to make.
The red hot patterns are so cute with these delicious looking cupcakes.