HOW TO MAKE LOVE BUG CUPCAKES
Love bug cupcakes are a must make for Valentine's Day! These moist and delicious cupcakes go together quickly and they are perfect for Valentine's Day or really for any holiday!
Provided by MomSkoop Staff
Categories FOOD
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- If you are making your own cupcakes, follow the directions on the cake mix box.
- Scoop out about ½ of the frosting and place in a bowl. Add 1-2 drops of the pink food coloring and mix well.
- Frost the cupcakes with the remaining white frosting. Then with the pink frosting, frost about ¾ of the cupcake leaving a little "V" wedge in the back. The pink will represent wings.
- Cut little slivers of black licorice to represent the antennas. You will need 12.
- Place a dab of frosting on the back of the candy eyes and place on the pink candy melts. Draw a smile with your edible marker.
- In the front of the cupcake, place a lovebug head and 2 antennas. Then, place 3 confetti hearts on each side of the wings.
- You now have a cute little love bug cupcake! Enjoy!!
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 g, Calories 339 kcal, Carbohydrate 50 g, Protein 3 g, Fat 16 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 17 mg, Sodium 275 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 37 g, UnsaturatedFat 9 g
TASTY LOVE BUG CUPCAKES
Tasty Love Bug Cupcakes, an easy recipe for turning chocolate cupcakes in love bugs using edible toppings and frosting.
Provided by Mary_Hartman
Categories Dessert
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Bake the cupcakes according to the instructions on the packaging. Then allow the cupcakes to fully cool. .With the red frosting, make the wings. To do so, simply apply the frosting as two triangles. The wide ends of the triangles should face the head white the pointed ends face the backside. Then with the white frosting, make two dots to attach the edible eyes to the cupcakes. Add an additional white frosting dot to attach a heart from the sprinkles to the cupcake to make the nose.
- Simply add additional sprinkles and decorations as desired. Then enjoy the cupcakes!
BUG CUPCAKES
Clever slicing and colored icing transform simple cupcakes into real delights. Gumdrop heads and licorice antennae may be the first thing picked off and popped into happy mouths. Finally, something from the insect world you don't have to grab out of children's curious hands. You can use either the Swiss Meringue Buttercream or Simple Sugar Icing to frost these cupcakes -- both work equally well.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cupcake Recipes
Yield Makes 30 cupcakes
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- One-Bowl Chocolate Cake:Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners.
- Into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, sift cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. With the mixer on low, stir in eggs, 1 1/2 cups warm water, buttermilk, vegetable oil, and vanilla until smooth, about 3 minutes.
- Put scant 1/3 cup batter in each cupcake liner. Bake, rotating once, until tester inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Cool cupcakes in pans on rack 20 minutes. Cupcakes can be made in advance and stored up to 1 day in refrigerator. They can be stored 1 week in the freezer.
- Swiss Meringue Buttercream:Beat butter with electric mixer until fluffy and pale. Transfer to small bowl.
- In double boiler over simmering water, whisk sugar and egg whites until warm and sugar is dissolved, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to clean bowl of electric mixer; beat on high with whisk attachment until fluffy and cooled, about 10 minutes.
- Reduce mixer to medium-low; add butter a scant 1/4 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla.
- Switch to paddle attachment; beat on lowest speed 3 to 5 minutes. Leave at room temperature if using same day. Or store airtight in refrigerator up to 3 days. Bring to room temperature; beat until smooth.
- Simple Sugar Icing:Beat butter with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, until smooth. Add milk, vanilla, salt, and lemon juice; beat until smooth. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Divide frosting in to 5 small bowls, and tint each bowlful a different color with food coloring. Use serrated knife to evenly cut the domed tops off of each cooled cupcake. Cut each top in half.
- Use a small offset spatula to evenly spread 1 1/2 tablespoons colored frosting over each flat cupcake top. Then position halved cupcake tops on top of frosted cupcakes, pressing gently to adhere wings to soft frosting. To make bugs, attach tops with the domed side up and points meeting just inside the edge of cupcake and extending off the opposite side. To create butterflies, attach pieces, cut side up, with rounded edges in center of cupcake (domed shape will create angled wings). Refrigerate until frosting is firm and wings are secure, about 30 minutes.
- Prepare gumdrop and licorice heads: Snip licorice strings on a diagonal into 1 1/2-inch lengths. Use a toothpick to make 2 holes in the top of each gumdrop on opposite sides. Insert the pointed end of one licorice strip into each hole to create antennae. Using extra frosting as glue, attach gumdrop head to cupcake.
- Decorate wings as desired with assorted colored frostings: Place frosting in pastry bags filled with couplers and round tips, and pipe over surface of wings. Alternatively, gently spread frosting with a small offset spatula over the surface of the wings as desired. For lots of frosting, spread each wing with a base coat of frosting first and pipe out decorations in a different color. For just a touch of frosting, pipe simple decorations onto the bare black wings.
LADY BUG CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES
Who wouldn't smile when they see these fun little treats sitting on the kitchen table? They're as much fun to make as they are to eat! -Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 55m
Yield 14 cupcakes.
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk and coffee, beating well after each addition. , Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For lady bug wings, microwave chocolate wafers for a few seconds to slightly soften. Use a serrated knife to cut each in half. Cut off the tips to allow room for the lady bug face; save remaining wafer pieces to prop up wings. Frost both wings, and dip in red jimmies. Cut black jelly beans in half; add as spots to the wings. Set aside., For antennae, cut licorice into 1-in. pieces. Dip one end into frosting and roll in black nonpareils; set aside to dry., To assemble cupcake, frost with chocolate icing. Position decorated wings on cupcakes; if desired, add reserved wafer piece under wing tip to prop up. Add antennae and white hard candy eyes. Pipe a small frosting dot for eyeballs. Add a large curved red jimmie and two small ones for the mouth.
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