Make Heart Shaped Cupcakes with This Easy Trick!

Want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your kids in a fun way? Make heart-shaped cupcakes together with this easy trick!

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Valentine’s Day Heart Shaped Cupcakes

Around our house, Valentine’s Day isn’t just about celebrating the love between Justin and me, it’s also about the love between all of us. So, we use Valentine’s Day to celebrate our entire family.

Baking is one of Carrigan’s favorite things to do. She loves making brownies and we made easy brownie pops together. But since my birthday is also in February, I wanted cupcakes!

She was happy to go along with my suggestion but wanted them to have hearts. Instead of just decorating them with hearts I decided to show her how to make heart cupcakes even without a heart shaped cake pan!

It’s an easy trick that works with any kind of cake. Valentine’s Day is all about chocolate and sweets, so we used Pillsbury™. Devil’s Food Cake Mix!

Pillsbury baking mixes and frostings are a regular part of our lives. Pillsbury helps make every baking occasion into an easy celebration! We can celebrate anything we want without having to make everything from scratch!

Ingredients for Heart Shaped Cupcakes

For these quick cupcakes, we used one of our other tricks and made soda cupcakes! It turns any cupcake or cake recipe into a two-ingredient recipe!

• 1 box Pillsbury Devil’s Food Cake mix
• 1 12 oz can of Cherry Cola (you can use regular soda or diet soda)
• 1 Pillsbury Pastry Bag Cream Cheese Frosting
• Valentine Sprinkles

To make these heart-shaped cupcakes, you’ll also need a few more supplies!

• Muffin tin (just a regular muffin tin!)
• Cupcake liners
• 12 marbles

How to Make Heart Cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. Line a muffin tin with the cupcake liners.
3. Mix the Pillsbury Devil’s Food Cake mix and the can of soda together in a bowl.
4. Spoon the cake batter into cupcake liners until they are each 1/2 full. Don’t overfill them or they won’t hold the heart shape.
5. Place a marble between each liner and the edge of the muffin tin cup.
6. Bake cupcakes for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
7. Allow your heart-shaped cupcakes to cool completely before frosting with the Pillsbury Pastry Bag Cream Cheese Frosting!
8. Decorate with sprinkles!

Printable Heart Shaped Cupcakes Recipe

The marbles that we played with as kids and that your kids might have right now are the secret to making heart-shaped cupcakes without needing a special pan!

Making Heart-Shaped Cupcakes with Marbles

There are a few things to watch out for when you’re making the cupcakes. You need one marble per cupcake liner.

You also want to make sure that you don’t overfill each muffin liner. Fill each one about halfway full.

If you overfill, there’s a chance that you won’t get a good heart shape as your cupcake bakes and rises.

Decorating Heart-Shaped Cupcakes

After we made our chocolate heart cakes, Carrigan wanted to share the love with the rest of our family and some of her friends. Everyone loves cupcakes so they’re a good way to let the important people in your life know that you love them this time of year.

Carrigan decorated gift tags for Grambo, Grammy, and Grandad. Then we put each cupcake into a cupcake holder and Carrigan had a sweet treat to share with some of the most important people in her life!

The great thing about our Valentine’s Day baking is that Carrigan was able to be part of it! From mixing the cake batter to decorating the cupcakes using the Pillsbury Pastry Bag Cream Cheese Frosting!

What I love about the pre-filled Pillsbury pastry bag is that it makes putting frosting on cupcakes into a fun activity for bakers of all skill levels! Carrigan can use it on her own and we have very little clean up afterward!

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