Valentine’s Day cupcakes

Since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day I decided to spend my Sunday morning making Valentine’s Day treats! I decided on cupcakes because they are fun to decorate.I was deciding whether to make vanilla flavoured cupcakes with rosewater icing or whether I should flavour the cupcakes with rosewater. In the end I decided to stick with the vanilla flavoured cupcakes and have a bit of fun with the icing. I used a simple icing recipe of icing sugar, butter, water, rosewater essence and food colouring.I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed having made the cupcakes before, and the icing tastes amazing! There was a lack of gluten free decorations at the supermarket so in the end I decided to colour the icing and use white writing fudge to draw hearts.

My Valentine's Day cupcakes My Valentine's Day cupcakesIf you want to make your own Valentine’s Day cupcakes all you need to do is:Cupcake mixture:IngredientsMethod1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Place cupcake baking liners in the tin you are using (I made 8 large cupcakes)2. Beat sugar and eggs in large bowl of electric mixer at medium speed for one minute. Add flour, salt, baking powder, xanthan gum, oil, milk and vanilla; beat at medium speed for one minute. Pour batter into prepared pan.3. Place in oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until cupcakes are very lightly browned4. Cool before icingIcing:IngredientsMethod1. Place a small knob of butter into a dish with a small dash of rosewater essence (or as much as you would like) and red food colouring (the amount depends on what colour you want the icing)2. Add a small amount of boiling water to melt the butter3. Add icing sugar until it gets to a good icing consistency (make sure it isn’t too or it’ll pour down the edges of the cupcakes!)4. Ice the cupcakes and then draw a heart on with writing fudge (I used a Queen white chocolate flavoured writing fudge pen)5. Surprise your Valentine with these great tasting and cute cupcakes!Do you get into the Valentine’s Day spirit?

Valentine's Day cupcakes Valentine's Day cupcakes