Valentine's Day Cupcakes
/by Carly
Jake loves to help in the kitchen and making cakes or cupcakes is probably one of his favourite things to do. In light of Valentine's Day coming up, we decided to make some cupcakes to bring over to a friend's house.
We decided to make "rainbow" cupcakes, by separating the cake batter into four bowls (after it's been mixed) and colouring one bowl purple, one red and one pink. We left the fourth bowl white. I used both paste food colouring (for the red) and liquid food colouring for the pink and purple. To make it easier for Jake to mix the colours into the X's and O's baking cups we picked up at the Dollar Store, I spooned the batter in freezer baggies and snipped a tiny hole in one corner. We carefully put a bit of each colour into the baking cups, then baked the cupcakes according to the directions on the mix.
When the cupcakes had cooled, we iced them with pink and purple icing, topped with heart shaped sprinkles and tiny coloured dots. Mmm!
Do you make any Valentine's treats with your kids?
Carly has red hair and occasionally the temper to match. She loves potatoes, rainy nights, photography, her husband, her five year old son, Jacob and her brand spanking new son, Noah. Probably in reverse order. She also blogs
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