Be mine… with these Furry Monster Valentine Cupcakes! Sure, they look mean on the outside – but they’re full of love (and sweetness!) on the inside.
Yes, yes, yes! Hey, everyone! It’s Lisa and I am ultra excited because, well, V-Day happens to be one of my favorite holidays.
Even in my single days, there was always something about February 14th that got me all giddy. As a little girl, I loved the idea of reds, pinks, and purples being scattered on greeting cards and décor. (Okay, guilty as charged, I still love that color palette).
Now that I’m a wife and mama, I’ve taken Valentine’s Day to new extremes. Can you guess it?
Yup, I bake a whole lot.
My latest creation: Furry Monster Valentine Cupcakes. They’re almost too adorable to eat.
Almost.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 dozen Vanilla Cupcakes (I used a cake mix and baked them in red cupcake liners.)
- 1/2 cup Butter, Softened
- 2 cups Confectioners’ Sugar
- 2 to 3 tbsp Milk
- 2 to 3 drops Red Gel Food Coloring
- 20 Candy Google Eyes
- 12 Small Pretzel Sticks
- 3 to 4 ounces Red Fondant
INSTRUCTIONS
Make Cupcakes
- Bake cupcakes according to cake mix directions or vanilla cupcake recipe.
- Cool cupcakes completely.
Make Buttercream
- Use an electric mixer to beat butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk on slow speed. Gradually increase the speed to high.
- Once the buttercream starts to take form, add red gel food coloring until you achieve a shade of pink that you like.
- Continue beating on high. Once the ingredients are smooth, well-tinted, and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is ready.
Frost and Decorate Cupcakes
- Attach Wilton tip #233 to a frosting bag and scoop buttercream inside.
- Frost each cupcake and give your cupcake monsters some long, disheveled buttercream fur.
- Give each of your monsters either 1, 2, or 3 eyes with your candy googly eyes.
Create Horns For Your Cupcake Monsters
- Roll 24 spheres out of your red fondant, about 1/3 of an inch in size.
- Snap each pretzel stick in half.
- Place one fondant sphere on each of your pretzel sticks.
- Insert 2 pretzel sticks into each one of your furry cupcakes.
Make Fondant Hearts
- Roll two fondant spheres (about ¼ of an inch in diameter each).
- Then, give them a more oval shape and squeeze them together, leaving a space at the top.
- Pinch the bottom and flatten the heart out slightly, smoothing it as you go.
- Make about 24-30 of these and place randomly on each monster.
