Sprinkled with Love Valentine’s Day Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Step 1: Make the Candy Hearts
2. - Using a pencil and a heart cookie cutter set, trace several hearts on the backside of a piece of parchment paper.
3. - Tape the parchment paper, pencil side down, to a 10 x 14 in.cake board.
4. - Step 2: Melt the Candy Melts Candy
5. - Melt the Bright White Candy Melts candy in the microwave or a double boiler, following the instructions on the package. Pour the melted candy into a decorating bag. Cut about ¼ in. off the tip of the bag.
6. - Step 3: Pipe Candy Hearts
7. - Following the heart pattern, outline and fill in the hearts with the melted candy, piping and decorating one heart at a time. Tap and shake the cutting board to help smooth out the candy, if necessary.
8. - Immediately sprinkle the piped heart with dark red, pink or white nonpareils.
9. - Repeat until you have one heart per cupcake.
10. - Chill your candy hearts in the refrigerator until they're set, about 10 to 15 minutes.
11. - When set, attach a 4 in. lollipop stick to the backside of each heart using the remaining melted candy. Chill in the refrigerator again to set the candy, about 10 minutes.
12. - Step 4: Bake Your Cupcakes
13. - Prepare your yellow cake batter following the recipe instructions. Bake and cool your cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
14. - Step 5: Tint the Buttercream
15. - Using Rose and Violet icing colors, tint 3 cups buttercream magenta.
16. - Prepare a decorating bag with tip 1M and fill with magenta buttercream.
17. - Step 6: Decorate Your Cupcakes
18. - Using the magenta buttercream, pipe a 1M rosette on the top of each cupcake.
19. - Insert one candy heart into the center of each rosette.
20. - Finally, sprinkle your cupcakes with a variety of Valentine's Day and heart-shaped sprinkles.