Valentine’s Day Cupcakes are delicious treats for celebrating this day. Thus, we have collected 22 great recipes for you to choose from.
These are also very easy to prepare, although some may have looked too many ingredients but you’ll be surprised how easy they are to make. Many of these recipes can be made by and enjoyed by kids of all ages.
Have fun looking and trying at all of these Valentine’s Day Cupcakes below! If you do make any of them, we’d love to hear how they turned out in the comments below! And don’t forget to Pin them in your Pinterest board as well for later.
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1. Valentine’s Day Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream
These cupcakes are not only ridiculously cute but they are also absolutely delicious making them absolutely perfect for Valentine’s Day treat! With just a combination of flour, sugar, cocoa powder, milk and vanilla will give you this treat. You could even use store-bought buttercream and add in just 3-4 tbsp of raspberry jam for a similar result.
Get the full recipe from Frugal Mom Eh
2. Strawberry Puff Cake
These are chocolate cupcakes topped with a light strawberry frosting then dipped in melted chocolate. Seriously melt in your mouth yummy! Just make your favorite chocolate cupcakes and then pipe this fresh strawberry frosting. With only simple ingredient like a box of chocolate cake mix then some fresh strawberries butter, sugar and chocolate chips for topping.
Get the full recipe from The Girl Who Ate Everything
3. Xoxo Valentine Cupcakes
These XOXO Valentine Cupcakes are just gorgeous! They’re perfect for a kids Valentine’s Day party or a grown-up soirée too! and also easy to create with ingredients such as the flour, vanilla frosting, some sour cream milk, and eggs will do great.
Get the full recipe from In the Kids Kitchen
4. Hidden Heart Cupcake
These heart-in-the-middle cupcakes are so cute and are easy to make! Moreover, the center shape can be changed to anything depending on the holidays, occasion and celebrations, With only four ingredients like a box of cake mix, eggs, butter, and some water indeed it is so easy to make.
Get the full recipe from A Helicopter Mom
5. Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes
These Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes for Valentine’s weekend indeed tastes amazing! It is made from a boxed cake mix and frosted with a creamy and delicious homemade strawberry buttercream frosting and then topped them with a chocolate-covered strawberry.
Get the full recipe from Glitter n Spice
6. Strawberry Cupcake with Cream cheese Frosting
These Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are perfect! So moist and fluffy! The strawberry flavor in the cupcake comes from a mix of strawberry puree and strawberry extract. To make the toppers, you just need a few colored candy melts.
As for the other ingredients used here are of course some all-purpose flour, sour cream, some eggs, cream cheese, some food colorings with vanilla and strawberry extracts.
Get the full recipe from Life, Love and Sugar
7. Buttermilk Chocolate Cupcakes with Whipped Ganache Frosting
Here is another Valentine’s day cupcake. Moist chocolate cupcakes topped off with a decadent Ghirardelli dark chocolate ganache frosting. Add a Ghirardelli Impressions chocolate for the finishing touch, and you have the perfect Valentine’s Day treat!
Get the Full recipe from Belle of the Kitchen
8. Valentine’s Popcorn Sundae Cupcakes
So show yourself a little love this year with some popcorn sundae cupcakes. They’re decorated to look like sundaes, so they don’t actually melt. They are indeed adorable. You will only need some popcorns, cake batter, some homemade frostings, gumballs or heart-shaped candies.
Get the full recipe from 1 Fine Cookie
9. Pink Confetti Cupcakes
It’s indeed so cute and pretty and delicious. Another tasty Valentine’s day cupcake everyone will fall in love with. with such ingredients like butter, sugar eggs buttermilk, sour cream, flour with cheese and strawberries for buttercream.
Get the full recipe from Your Cup of Cake
10. Valentine Raspberry Cream Filled Cupcake with a Cupcake
These super easy and totally adorable Valentine Raspberry Cream Filled Cupcakes with a Cupcake topper will be perfect for showing some love! The cupcake recipe starts with a boxed cake mix then filled with a yummy raspberry buttercream icing. So, grab your favorite cake mix, raspberry preserves, butter, confectioners sugar, and a few other items and of course, the Reese for the cupcake on the cupcake, and you will be making these up in no time at all.
Get the full recipe from Cincy Shopper
11. Pink Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Frosting
Indeed this Pink Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Frosting were absolutely delicious. There is only a hint of the champagne flavor which in my opinion makes them better than some of the other recipes I’ve seen. And this is also very easy to make as all you need are some cake flour, butter some eggs, pink food coloring and of course some pink champagne.
Get the full recipe from Daily Dish Recipes
12. Fondant Topped Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Fondants may look hard to make and intimidating but in fact, it is not. The tutorial here will guide you and you will be surprised how easy to make. All you need to create these lovely Fondant Topped Cupcakes are several cupcakes of your choice, fondant (ready to roll white icing), and some food dyes along with the materials like your circle and heart-shape cutters.
Get the full recipe and tutorial from Foodwhirl
13. Love Bug Cupcakes
Love Bug Cupcakes – a Valentine’s Day dessert recipe that your kids will love! Decorate a cupcake with buttercream frosting and hearts following our picture tutorial. And then, hold tight because these little furry guys are about to invade the blog…. it’s an attack of the Love Bug Cupcakes! And they’re here to kill you with cuteness. Supplies that you need are some cupcakes, frostings red fondant heart-shaped cutters, some lollipop sticks, candy eyeballs, and pastry tip and your good to go.
Get the full recipes and tutorial from The Cake Blog
14. Red Hot Cinnamon Kiss Cupcakes
It is super moist and tasty and easy to prepare. With ingredients like some flour, butter, some eggs, and whole milk with red hot candies. You’ll love the moist white cake combined with the red hot cinnamon frosting.
Get the full recipe from Jenns Blah Blah Blog
15. Cupid’s Cupcake (Strawberry and Nutella)
These Valentine’s Day Cupcakes are the ultimate declaration of love: strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla all in one! It’s the Cupid’s Cupcakes and they are filled with Nutella and topped with strawberry Nutella swirled buttercream. Strawberry dust is the secret to real strawberry frosting. Grind up freeze-dried strawberries and beat the powder right into the buttercream. Freeze-dried strawberries are REAL strawberries, so you get real flavor without comprising the buttercream’s texture.
Get the full recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction
16. Chocolate Red Wine Cupcakes with Red Wine Frosting
There’s no dessert experience quite like a slice of rich chocolate cake paired with a glass of sweet, fruity red wine. To start with, instead of using water, it’s the Red wine that you pour in the batter. The frosting is a luscious blend of whipped cream, cream cheese, and of course, fruity wine. Let’s make a toss and enjoy.
Get the full recipe from Mountain View Vineyard
17. Raspberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cupcakes
This yummy Raspberry Cheesecake Chocolate cupcakes with a cheesecake pudding center and a raspberry buttercream on top makes these cupcakes disappear whenever they are taken to parties. Just start with baking your favorite Chocolate cake mix and create your toppings with some instant cheesecake pudding mix, cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream, some raspberries, and chocolate chips.
Get the full recipe from Inside Bru Crew Life
18. Heart-Shaped Cupcakes
These sweet little heart-shaped cupcakes are perfect for Valentine’s Day. Making Heart Shaped Cupcakes is actually very easy and this technique works with any recipe, whether from scratch or a box. So All you need is your favorite cupcake recipe and some marbles or glass ovals to use to make the heart shape.
Get the full recipe from Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom
19. Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes
These Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes are indeed very easy, just use your favorite white cake recipe or starts with a box mix. The texture is perfect and is dotted with pieces of chopped cherries. And also get your favorite buttercream (made with an almond emulsion instead of vanilla) which is a lovely complement to the cherry flavor, and of course, a cherry on top.
Get the full recipes from Lemon Sugar
20. Neapolitan Bonbon Cupcakes
A great idea for Valentine’s day treat. The chocolate cake recipe comes from quick “one bowl” batter and makes 9 standard cupcakes. One thing is for certain, these cupcakes are all about variety. You get a little of everything – rich chocolate cake, vanilla and strawberry buttercream, and a surprise flavor-filled bonbon on top!
Get the full recipes from Sprinkle Bakes
21. Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Mousse
Red Velvet Cupcakes topped with an easy White Chocolate Mousse made from a pudding mix! And you can make this frosting with any type of instant pudding mix add whipping cream on the it then top with those cute sprinkles.
Get the full recipe from Your Cup of Cake
22. Pink Velvet Cupcakes
These velvety smooth one-bowl Pink Velvet Cupcakes are delicious and easy, too! Perfect for Valentine’s Day and even any day!
They’re easy to make, use only a few drops of pink food coloring, and are made with super simple ingredients such as flour, eggs, buttermilk, pink food coloring, and other basics. They’re adorable and delicious too!
Get the full recipe from I Heart Nap Time
Did you find your new favorites? Don’t forget to Pin them into your Pinterest board and of course, feel free to comment below.
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