Valentines Day Cupcakes..... Pink and Sparkleh.

SOOOoooo I promised one of my readers that I'd get some valentines day cupcakes done,  but unfortunately due to not feeling so good... I didn't really fancy playing with my new red regal icing and heart shaped cutters.  Instead I did these:

               Victoria sponge mix  4, 4 , 4 , 2 ...   with strawberry flavouring and pink gel colouring. 

In some pink dotted cases that I got for christmas oddly enough from my line manager...

Last time I tried to make pink sponge, it went into the oven pink and came back out sponge coloured - so I changed the waterbased colouring I had to a gel version and crossed my fingers.

18 minutes later .... Fan Oven on 190.
 

Was slightly disappointed as they looked sponge coloured until I cut them open.......! 

Slightly pink sponge - HUZZAH!  

Nexxxttttt....

I made butter cream using  Stork, Trex and Icing Sugar with yet more Pink gel colouring and yet more strawberry flavouring.  Overkill ?  NAH!  Just messy... 

Using two different types of nozzle:

annnnnnnd these sprinkles:

Yes, they are foreign, that's because they are from Madeira. Saw them in the bakery aisle in the PING! supermarket.

I made the below with a touch of red edible glitter :-D  ...HAPPY DRIBBLING.... and Happy Valentines Day!

What IS that one on the right you say..... 

Its a smiley face - the last of the icing I could squeeze out!

TOODLES!