If you are concerned about red food dye ( which I wasn’t when I wrote this obviously but now restrict as much as possible ) use this Natural Color
- Gather your ingredients. I cheat when it comes to baking so, a cake mix and it’s ingredients, some rope licorice ( I used pull and peel twizzlers) , icing , the above mentioned red and pink food coloring, and a few extra bowls.
- Make the cake mix, separate it into two bowls one red and one pink. If I did this again I would make the pink lighter so there was more contrast.
- Fill the muffin cups with the red first , then at the pink, I used a toothpick to swirl it a little.
- Bake and let cool.
- While they cool add a little more pink food coloring to the white icing.
- Ice the cupcakes when cool.
- Start creating with the licorice, write names, messages or just hearts! The licorice is really easy to work with!
- Have a treat!
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Foarte interesant ce ai postat.M-am uitat pe blogul tau si imi place ce am vazut chiar e frumos si interesant.Felicitari si sigur am sa mai revin!
I love the licorice idea. So cute. I may use it for my Valentine’s Day cupcakes!
A word of warning if your child is still in diapers, you may be afraid after they eat one. Just saying….
Okay…I just have to say that I L-O-V-E your site!!! I found it a few days ago and have poured through all your fabulous ideas and can’t wait to get busy with my 2-year-old. Just wanted to confess and ask if I can borrow some ideas (and I’ll totally give you the credit
)). Thank you for the GREAT ideas!
Of course of course !!
An alternative to food coloring – add a cup or two of frozen strawberries (thawed) or chopped fresh berries. Love the licorice idea, these look so tasty.
These are super cute! I will have to do these for my Valentine’s Day cupcakes! LOL at the diaper warning…
Yum! I just found this site, can’t remember how, but you are making me hungry!
Andrea- you are my new best friend. I kept meaning to find ways to make the color naturally and always get sidetracked searching for something else!
Thanks!
Oh I know this post is making me crave sugar – I baked these early last week and promptly sent them with my husband to his office!
These cakes are so so cute!! I’m definitely making them in a couple of weeks time with my son. Your site rocks there’s barely a day goes by where I don’t come here and wanna do the activity straight away with my son!!
Love the idea of using the licorice how cute.
Thanks for sharing these great cupcake ideas! I live the two-toned swirly cake! My son will love to mix them.
ahhhh…so cute! i was trying to figure out how i could stand up hard candy on top with a toothpick, but this is a great idea!!!
Thought you might like to see our effort!
http://isaacjklm.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/free-fun-friday/
Johanna those look awesome! Your little guy is too precious!
awwwwwwww thanks!! your wee man is totally scrummy too!!
Those look beautiful, and I will be decorating some banana cupcakes like that for my daughter’s birthday party on Valentines Day. I have read somewhere that if you thaw just a handful of frozen berries, that the juice that comes out as they thaw can be used to make lovely pink icing without food colouring. So I will be giving that a go.
Let me know how it goes I can’t wait to try the berries for color!
[...] Easy Valentine cupcakes – I included these because anyone can make them. Cooking skills or not, these are the easiest food gift you actually make yourself. Really. To get any easier, you’d have to buy a gift at the bakery. To make these cupcakes, all you need is a cake mix, a container of pre-made frosting, food color, and some licorice. If you started with strawberry cake and frosting, you wouldn’t even need the food color. [...]