Valentine's Day Cupcakes for Your Sweetie!

M. Kaye Hash
When Valentine's Day shows up it can be difficult to come up with great gift ideas for your loved one. A great idea would be to make your significant other some homemade

Valentine's Day cupcakes!

Valentine's Day Cupcakes Ingredients

2 cups flour

2/3 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tbsp cocoa powder

2/3 cup regular dairy milk or soy milk for dairy free Valentine's Day cupcakes

1/2 cup butter, melted

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 tbsp molasses

1/2 package dark chocolate chips (read the ingredients for dairy free Valentine's Day cupcakes)

chocolate syrup

powdered sugar

Valentine's Day Cupcakes Directions

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder in a bowl. Separately mix milk, butter, eggs, vanilla and molasses in another bowl. Push back the dry ingredients to make an indentation in the center and place the wet ingredients in that center. Mix everything together. Mix in the dark chocolate chips. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

When cool drizzle chocolate chips with chocolate syrup and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Give these Valentine's Day cupcakes to your sweetie!

I tweaked another recipe to make these Valentine's Day cupcakes! You can find it here!

Published by M. Kaye Hash

Melissa co-owns a photography website, helps run an area rug website, and runs her own frugal living website. She writes articles and blogs for each website as well as her own blog.  View profile

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  • Erin Thursby1/13/2009

    Pretty picture.

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