Pink Velvet Cupcakes are perfect for Valentine’s Day, baby showers, birthday parties and weddings. If you’re a red velvet cake fan, you’ll enjoy pink velvet too! They’re topping with a delicious cream cheese frosting. And that pretty swirl makes them a little bit fancy!
This recipe comes from a new book: Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes: Extraordinary Recipes and Easy Decorating Techniques by Lindsay Conchar (Life, Love and Sugar blog). This book is a MUST HAVE for the home baker- there are gorgeous desserts in here to help you celebrate all year long. Lindsay is immensely talented- her amazing creations that she creates for her blog are hugely popular on Pinterest. If you have an interest in cake baking, this is the perfect book for you. There are very easy instructions for the recipes, and there are tons of tips included. Here are some goodies from the book that I’m definitely going to make at some point: Tiramisu Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake, Red Wine Chocolate Cake, Cannoli Cupcakes, Triple Lemon Cupcakes, Vanilla Layer Cake, Funfetti Cheesecake Cake, Oreo Cookie Dough Brownie Layer Cake, Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Cake, Monster Cookie Dough Cheesecake, Key Lime Cheesecake, Baileys Chocolate Cheesecake and the Red Velvet Flag Cake for 4th of July. All of it— YUMMMMM.
The batter is a lovely shade of pink with the help of a few drops of pink food coloring. I had pink gel paste (you can buy it at craft stores), so I used that in place of food coloring. Make them a light baby pink or a little bit darker… whatever your preference.
This recipe makes a small batch- just 12 cupcakes. I love that because we don’t need 24 cupcakes lying around our house! Double the recipe though if you need more.
The author suggests sprinkling pretty candy pearls on top of the frosted cupcakes. They’re pretty crunchy, so you can opt to use pretty sprinkles instead or just keep them plain (still pretty!)
The rose swirling technique is described in this cookbook (as are many other frosting techniques). The tip you need for piping the frosting into roses is mentioned in the recipe below. You’ll basically start in the middle and just swirl it around to create the rose-look. So simple and pretty!
Here are a few more velvet-themed cupcakes you might enjoy:
Green Velvet Cupcakes by Created by Diane Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cupcakes by RecipeGirl Purple Velvet Cupcakes by Inspired By Charm Red Velvet Birthday Cupcakes by RecipeGirl
