31 Pretty and Delicious Valentine Cupcake Recipes (2024)

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These 31 Pretty and Delicious Valentine Cupcake Recipes feature strawberry, cherry, red velvet, chocolate and more – each perfect for Valentine’s Day.

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What is your favorite part of Valentine’s Day? While the hearts, flowers, candy – oh and of course love – is all great, I want the baked goods!!

There isn’t much that I like better than a pretty and delicious Valentine cupcake!

Give me a yummy cupcake topped with a delicious frosting and I’m a happy girl. I can hardly even type that sentence without my mouth watering a bit.

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To help you get ready for Valentine’s Day and bake some goodies for your loved ones, a classroom, or a Valentine’s Day party, we’ ha’ve rounded up these 31 Pretty and Delicious Valentine Cupcake Recipes.

Since red and pink reign supreme on Valentine’s Day, several of the recipes utilize red fruits like strawberries and cherries and we also have the reddish color of red velvet.

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And of course chocolate is a perennial favorite for Valentine’s Day, so we had to add a couple of chocolatey recipes to the list.

If you’re following a special diet, we even have a gluten-free vegan cupcake on the list, as well as a low-carb keto option. While those two recipes do look DELICIOUS, I think I’ll take my cupcake full of gluten and carbs. It IS a holiday after all!

To make the most of these delicious recipes, you’ll want to decorate and display your cupcakes in the cutest way possible, right? To help, we found lots of options for Valentine’s Day cupcake papers, toppers, sprinkles and display stands. Check them all out:

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These 31 Pretty and Delicious Valentine Cupcake Recipes feature strawberry, cherry, red velvet, chocolate and more - each perfect for Valentine's Day.

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Raspberry Buttercream Filled Cupcakes Recipe

These cute Valentine cupcakes in white, pink and red have a fun topsy-turvy look!

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Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe

This Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe is perfect not only for Valentine's Day, but also for National Cherry Month - which is also February!

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Easy Cherry co*ke Cupcakes Recipe with a Surprise Inside

These delicious cherry co*ke flavored cupcakes have a whole maraschino cherry hidden away in the middle for a sweet surprise center.

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Nutella Cupcakes

These rich chocolate cupcakes are topped with a creamy dreamy Nutella buttercream.

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Valentine Heart Cupcakes

Thesevalentine cupcakesare shaped like hearts and covered in white, pink, and red frosting.

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Love Bug Valentines Cupcakes

The best part about these Valentine’s Day Cupcakes is that you literally don’t even have to bake them if you don’t want to. Head to the store and buy pre-made cupcakes and bring them home to decorate. Talk about one of the best cupcake ideas, ever!

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Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream

These sweet, fluffy and moist cupcakes are incredibly easy to make with the help of a box of cake mix. Topped with a luscious and creamy strawberry buttercream frosting to send this dessert over the edge.

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Rose Lychee Raspberry Cupcakes

Delicately flavored with rose water and fresh lychee, these dreamy cupcakes are topped with a lightly sweetened rose and raspberry buttercream with a natural pink color.

These from scratch strawberry crunch cupcakes are strawberry shortcake in cupcake form with a fun strawberry crumble topping! Made with an extra soft and moist vanilla cupcake, filled with strawberryjam, and topped with a slightly tangy whipped cream cheese frosting. Finish with the strawberry crunch topping and a fresh strawberry!

A hidden truffle within these cupcakes makes them the perfect choice for a decadent Valentine's day treat!

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Pink Cupcakes

This crazy moist Pink cupcakes recipe with marble cream cheese frosting is the prettiest, easiest, most delicious cupcake you will ever make for Valentine´s Day .

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Strawberry Lemon Cupcakes

These Strawberry Lemon Cupcakes are easy to make from scratch using fresh lemon and strawberries! These light, fluffy strawberry lemon cupcakes are topped with a delicious strawberry buttercream for a treat everyone will love!

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Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Buttercream

These beautiful cupcakes are rich, moist and full of champagne flavor. They are topped with a luscious champagne buttercream, and some gold sprinkles to make them extra special!

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Black Forest Cupcakes with Homemade Cherry Filling

These black forest cupcakes have a moist chocolate base, homemade cherry filling with Kirsch, and a light whipped cream topping for a decadent Valentine’s treat!

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Pink Velvet Cupcakes

Soft and fluffy pink velvet cupcakes topped with a delicious and creamy cream cheese frosting. Perfect for Valentine's Day and red velvet lovers.

These wonderful strawberry cupcakes with chocolate frosting are moist and delicious! They are also sugar-free, low-carb and easy to make

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Heart Stencil Cupcakes

These tasty and adorable Heart Stencil Cupcakes feature a red frosting middle and a confectionery sugar shaped heart top.

A velvety cupcake topped with a rich and creamy buttercream frosting is always a treat. These Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Red Wine Buttercream are the perfect something sweet for sharing with someone special in your life.

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Strawberry Filled Cupcakes

These flavorful and beautiful strawberry filled cupcakes are the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. They are soft and fluffy vanilla cupcakes filled with fresh strawberries and topped withstrawberry buttercream frosting.

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Double Chocolate Brownie Valentines Day Cupcakes

These Brownie Fudge Valentines Cupcakes are perfect for chocolate lovers! They’re a double layer of deliciousness.

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Pomegranate Lemonade Cupcakes

These tasty cupcakes get their unique flavor from pomegranate juice concentrate and lemon curd.

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Small Batch Red Velvet Cupcakes

Small Batch Red Velvet Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are moist and delicious homemade cupcakes from scratch without a cake mix. Recipe makes 6 cupcakes.

These Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes are perfectly moist and fluffy with a subtle note of chocolate flavor. They are easy to make and downright delicious!

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Keto Sugar-free Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe

This sugar-free keto vanilla cupcakes recipe is moist and sweet with a fresh raspberry buttercream frosting that takes them over the top.

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Red Wine Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Red wine and chocolate is a match made in heaven and these Red Wine Cupcakes are topped with cream cheese frosting and make for the perfect Valentine's Day treats!

These dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting are decorated with cute X’s and O’s

These ultimate sweetheart red velvet cupcakes are an extra special dessert perfect for Valentine’s Day or another special occasion. With rich red velvet cupcakes as the base and sweet, fluffy cream cheese frosting, these cupcakes are sure to delight.Homemade candy decorations make them even more special.

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Strawberry Churro Cupcakes

This easy to make cupcake recipe delivers tons of great cinnamon sugar churro flavor topped with a sweet frosting given a fruity twist by mixing in strawberry jam.

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Red Velvet Cupcakes

These drool-worthy red velvet cupcakes are topped with a smooth and delicious cream cheese frosting.

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Rosé Cupcakes with Rose Petals

These rosé cupcakes are topped with dried rose petals and just scream elegance. They are the perfect Valentine's Day dessert and surprisingly easy to make!

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Easy Vanilla Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe

These cute pink cupcakes are perfect for Valentine's Day with their natural pink swirl of raspberry frosting. They're easy to make and decorate too!

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FAQs

How to make love heart cupcakes? ›

Place 1 marble in each muffin cup between paper baking cup and muffin pan so baking cup takes on heart shape. Make cake batter as directed on box. Fill each cup two-thirds full of batter. Bake 14 to 15 minutes or until tops of cupcakes bounce back when touched and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Why are cupcakes called 1234? ›

In later years, when the use of volume measurements was firmly established in American home kitchens, these recipes became known as 1234 cakes or quarter cakes, so called because they are made up of four ingredients: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs.

What is the most popular food on Valentine's Day? ›

Chocolate. Chocolate is a foolproof dessert option for any special occasion, and most certainly for Valentine's Day. A bit of history: the timeless classic heart-shaped box of chocolates, one of the most popular Valentine's Day offerings today, originated in Britain in 1868 as Richard Cadbury's initiative.

How do you keep cupcakes moist and fluffy? ›

"Baking fluffy, moist cupcakes is all about creating air bubbles in your batter that expand in the oven," she says. "If you overmix your batter, you collapse those bubbles and end up with a brick-like cake." Always mix at a low speed to avoid this, stopping just as all ingredients blend.

Are cupcakes better with milk or water? ›

Most box cake recipes will tell you to add water to the mix. Instead, try adding milk using the same proportions. This will make the cake richer and creamier because it ups the fat content. You can even use buttermilk here for a pleasant tang.

How to make heart-shaped cupcakes without marbles? ›

Place the cupcake liners in each well of the muffin tin. Then place one foil ball at the top of each well between the liner and the pan. This will make an indent in the top of the cupcake that resembles a heart. Spoon the batter into each liner, filling it no more than halfway.

What does "cupcake" mean for a girl? ›

Older Slang. a sexually attractive young woman. a beloved girl or woman.

What is the oldest cupcake? ›

Amelia Simmons invented the cupcake in 1796 when he wrote a recipe called “a light cake to bake in small cups” in her book named “American Cookery”. In fact, the first official use of the phrase “cupcake” was an 1828 reference made in Eliza Leslie's cookbook.

What is the most eaten candy on Valentine's Day? ›

Everybody Wants Chocolate

According to CandyStore.com, 37 out of 50 states in the U.S. prefer some kind of chocolate to any other sort of Valentine candy. Chocolate is the most popular candy for Valentine's Day for a reason.

What are the top 3 items consumers buy for Valentine's Day? ›

Beyond The Classic Heart-Shaped Bouquet And Chocolates

While flowers, candy and greeting cards still top the list of main gifts, younger generations are shifting the way Valentine's Day is being celebrated, looking beyond traditional gifts.

What not to do when making cupcakes? ›

Don't Over-mix, Don't Under-mix. Not too much, not too little. Make sure you're mixing the cupcake batter together *just until* the wet and dry are combined.

What's the most important ingredient in a cupcake? ›

Flour is the main ingredient of the batter and provides the base for the cupcake. Butter or oil provides flavor, tenderizes the batter and helps provide volume.

How to stop cupcakes from doming? ›

Check the temperature once your oven is preheated—if it's much higher, check your oven's manual to calibrate it so that 350 degrees actually means 350 degrees. Patterson also suggests simply lowering the temperature by 10 degrees if you notice your cakes significantly doming all the time.

What cupcake liners do professionals use? ›

Gifbera Standard Foil Cupcake Liners

Used by professionals and home bakers alike, these foil cupcake liners have a great look and feel, and perform perfectly. The elegant liners come in eight color options and are sturdy enough to hold up when stacked on a pastry stand.

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