FOR VALENTINE DAYS: Furry Monster Valentine Cupcakes

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

1. Bake cupcakes according to cake mix directions or vanilla cupcake recipe.
2. Cool cupcakes completely.

Make Buttercream

1. Use an electric mixer to beat butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk on slow speed. Gradually increase the speed to high.
2. Once the buttercream starts to take form, add red gel food coloring until you achieve a shade of pink that you like. 
3. Continue beating on high. Once the ingredients are smooth, well-tinted, and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is ready.

Frost and Decorate Cupcakes

1. Attach Wilton tip #233 to a frosting bag and scoop buttercream inside.
2. Frost each cupcake and give your cupcake monsters some long, disheveled buttercream fur.
3. Give each of your monsters either 1, 2, or 3 eyes with your candy googly eyes.

Create Horns For Your Cupcake Monsters

1. Roll 24 spheres out of your red fondant, about 1/3 of an inch in size.
2. Snap each pretzel stick in half.
3. Place one fondant sphere on each of your pretzel sticks.
4. Insert 2 pretzel sticks into each one of your furry cupcakes.

Make Fondant Hearts

1. Roll two fondant spheres (about ¼ of an inch in diameter each).
2. Then, give them a more oval shape and squeeze them together, leaving a space at the top.
3. Pinch the bottom and flatten the heart out slightly, smoothing it as you go.
4. Make about 24-30 of these and place randomly on each monster.

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