Bleeding Heart Cupcakes

Name: Bleeding Heart Cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 14 servings Red and blue food coloring; 473 milliliters strawberry jelly or smooth strawberry jam

Bleeding Heart Cupcakes is a gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan recipe with 14 servings. One serving contains 135 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Line cupcake tins with paper liners. Fill the liners two-thirds full with the batter.

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Cupcakes

Place 1 marble or tinfoil ball between each liner and the tin. This will make a dent in your cupcake when it bakes to make it heart-shaped.

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Cupcakes

Bake the cupcakes as directed in the recipe. If you are using marbles, be careful when removing the cupcakes from the tins because the marbles will be very hot.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

With a small paring knife, cut out a circle about the size of a dime in the center of each cupcake, going about two thirds of the way in. Pull the little plug of cake out.

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Cupcakes

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Knife

Cut off the top of this piece (about 1/2 inch thick) and eat or discard the bottom. Use a teaspoon or a squeeze bottle to fill the hole partway with the strawberry jelly "blood."

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Strawberry Jelly

Put the little cake plug back in. Continue with the rest of the hearts.

Put one third of the frosting into two separate bowls. Color one bowl of frosting with the red food coloring. Tint the other bowl of the frosting blue. Tint the remaining two thirds pink.

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Red Food Color

Frosting

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Bowl

Frost the cupcakes with the pink frosting. Make it super smooth by dipping a butter or frosting/palette knife in a bowl of hot water and smoothing it over the top. With the pastry bag or a knife, use the red and blue frosting to make veins on the hearts.

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