Valentine Cupcakes / Hidden Heart Cupcakes - My Guest Post for Nalini's Kitchen

Today's recipe is a special post, my guest post for Nalini of Nalini's Kitchen. Nalini is one of my close friends in the blogging World. I am so happy to do this guest post for her. She has a lovely space with more delicious recipes which are presented well with inviting pictures. Her authentic south Indian recipes are more notable, have tried few recipes from her space and totally loved it. She has most varieties of cookies like, Linzer cookies, Thumbprint cookies, Spritz Cookies and all of them are Eggless cookies. I really amazed at her passion for cooking when she continuously posted 3 Thaali. Delicious platter with mouth watering dishes. If u haven't checked those mouthwatering recipes please do drop by her space.

We are phone friends for more than a year, yes..we shared our numbers and used to talk almost daily but after her lil' princess arrival it reduced to once in a week. Most of the time our conversation begins with Blogging, Blogging & Blogging. We also discuss about photography, pictures, presentation this n that. We both have same DSLR so its easy for us to share and clear any doubts.  She is a very friendly and caring person. I am so happy to have her as one of my close friends. 

And one more happy thing to to share that today she is Celebrating her life's special moment and wishing Her a very Happy Anniversary. God Bless U & Ur Family with all health & Wealth. Good Luck Nalini!

Now coming to the recipe, Valentine Cupcakes/Hidden Heart Cupcakes with Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting. As its a Valentine Month, this is perfect and easy choice to treat your Valentine in the special day. I happened to see a video on you tube, making hidden heart cupcakes. I was so much impressed and wanted to try it. For this recipe, I used the Basic Vanilla Cake and Vanilla Butter cream frosting. The cake turned out so good but the hidden heart didn't come out perfectly becoz since i forgot to push the heart down, so on baking it raised to top and also  i forgot to mark on the liners to cut the cake to get the perfect heart shape,when i cut it wrong way it appeared like a pink blob :( But i was happy with the output(taste wise)and my kids loved the cake with frosting.

Makes About 6 hidden heart cupcakes

Ingredients

1. Vanilla Cake Batter 

For Frosting

1. Softened Butter 1/2 cup
2. Confectioner sugar 1 and 1/2 cup
3. Milk or cream    2 tbsp
4. Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp

Method

• Make Batter as per the recipe.
• Then take about a 1/3 of the batter and place in small bowl Add red food color to the batter to get a nice shade of pink. Cover the plain batter with cling wrap and refrigerate until use.

• Put pink batter in a square baking pan and bake at 350 F for about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove from pan and allow to cool completely.

• Cut out heart shapes from the pink cooled cake with a 1"cookie cutter.
• Line muffins pan with cupcake liner.
• Place 2 tbsp of the plain batter in the bottom of a cupcake liner in a cupcake pan. Place one pink cake heart pointy side down in the center of the batter making sure to push it all the way down to the bottom.

•  Cover the top of the heart with about 1-1 1/2 tbsp of additional plain batter.
• Bake the cupcakes at 350 F for about 20 minutes until a tooth pick inserted in the plain batter comes out clean.