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Make Heart Shaped Cupcakes with This Easy Trick!

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Want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your kids in a fun way? Make heart-shaped cupcakes together with this easy trick! It’s a fun way to celebrate, especially if anyone in your family has a sweet tooth!

Heart Shaped Cupcakes - Learn how to make Valentine heart cupcakes. It's easy to make these DIY cake ideas without any special baking pans! These chocolate heart cupcakes are perfect to make for kids! They're cute and you have to see what the trick is to making them!

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!

Make heart-shaped cupcakes with this easy trick!

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!

Make these easy heart cupcakes with two tricks in the kitchen!

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 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 (I love these because they make set up and clean up SO easy!
  • 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

Make Valentine chocolate cake with your kids!

How to Make Heart Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  2. Line a muffin tin with the cupcake liners.
  3. Mix the 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!

Heart Shaped Cupcakes - Learn how to make Valentine heart cupcakes. It's easy to make these DIY cake ideas without any special baking pans! These chocolate heart cupcakes are perfect to make for kids! They're cute and you have to see what the trick is to making them!

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Heart Shaped Cupcakes - Learn how to make Valentine heart cupcakes. It's easy to make these DIY cake ideas without any special baking pans! These chocolate heart cupcakes are perfect to make for kids! They're cute and you have to see what the trick is to making them!
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Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 box Pillsbury Devil’s Food Cake mix
  • 12 oz can of cherry cola
  • 1 Pillsbury Pastry Bag Cream Cheese Frosting
  • sprinkles

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a muffin tin with liners.
  • Mix the Pillsbury Devil’s Food Cake mix and the can of soda together in a bowl. Beat with a mixer for 2 minutes.
  • Spoon the cake batter into cupcake liners until they are each 1/2 full.
  • Place a marble between each liner and the edge of the muffin tin cup.
  • Bake cupcakes for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
  • Allow to cool completely then frost and decorate!

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!

Learn how to make heart cupcakes with help from marbles! Yes, marbles!

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.

Use marbles to make chocolate heart cupcakes!

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.

Learn how to make heart cupcakes and decorate them with ease!

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.

Keep it simple when it comes to decorating. Pastry bags filled with frosting and sprinkles work great! It’s a set up that lets the kids decorate their own and even lets the parents get creative too without it being stressful!

Decorating chocolate heart cakes is easy with Pillsbury!

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!

Make heart-shaped cupcakes for Valentine's Day!

HEART SHAPED CUPCAKES FAQ

How do you make a heart shaped cupcake cake?

If you want to use your heat shaped cupcakes (or even regular cupcakes) to make a larger cupcake cake that is shaped like a heart, it’s pretty easy to do. The trick to make it super easy is to bake your cupakes in a heart shaped pan instead of a regular muffin tin!

All you have to do is put your cupcake liners in a heart shaped pan and then fill them about halfway with batter. Bake them you’ll have a heart shaped cupcake cake right out of the pan.

I will warn you that the cupcakes won’t all be perfectly round but it’s SO much easier than trying to fit all those round cupcakes into a perfect heart shape!

One more tip, is to just remove each cupcake from the pan and place it on your serving dish so you can piece the heart back together quickly. If you try the flipping the pan method, it can get complicated when cupcakes are everywhere! It can be done, but just takes more time to put them back together!

You can get a heart-shaped cake pan on Amazon.

Do they make heart-shaped cupcake liners?

I have never seen heart shaped paper cupcake liners, but you can get silicone cupcake liners that are heart shaped. You can also get a silicone mold try to make heart shaped cupcakes.

Here are some of our favorite products to help you make heart-shaped treats this Valentine’s Day!

Wilton 9 Inch Heart PanWilton 9 Inch Heart PanWilton 9 Inch Heart PanWilton Heart Silicone Baking CupsWilton Heart Silicone Baking CupsWilton Heart Silicone Baking CupsWilton Mini Silicone Heart MoldWilton Mini Silicone Heart MoldWilton Mini Silicone Heart MoldToysmith Marbles in a Tin BoxToysmith Marbles in a Tin BoxToysmith Marbles in a Tin Box

 

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Heart Shaped Cupcakes - Learn how to make Valentine heart cupcakes. It's easy to make these DIY cake ideas without any special baking pans! These chocolate heart cupcakes are perfect to make for kids! They're cute and you have to see what the trick is to making them!

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Mariah is the mom of 2 and a former educator (preschool - 4th grade & special education) with a degree in human development. As a busy mom living in with a multi-generational family under one roof (with 4 dogs!), life is sometimes chaotic! She aims to share easy ideas that we can all use in our lives! Read more about Mariah!

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My name is Mariah & I'm the mom of two. I'm a former educator (preschool - 4th grade & special education) with a degree in human development. I'm also a baseball mom & dance mom. We're a multi-generational family living under one roof (with two dogs!) With our busy lives, I aim to share easy ideas that we can all use in our lives!

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